The Ninety-Nine Names · the 51st name
الْحَقّ
Al-Haqq
The Truth, and the only thing that does not pass
- The rootح ق ق
- From the roothaqqa: to be real, established, true; haqq is both truth and a right that is owed
The essay
One word in Arabic carries truth, reality, and what is rightfully owed, and the overlap is the doctrine. He is the Real: the only thing that exists without borrowing existence from something else. Everything you can point to is on loan and returning. The Qur'an says everything perishes but His Face, and this Name is where that sits. Al-Haqq is also the standard against which claims are measured, which is why the same word means a right.
In the Qur'an
ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ وَأَنَّهُۥ يُحۡيِ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ وَأَنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيۡءٖ قَدِيرٞ
That is because Allah is the Truth, and because He gives life to the dead, and because He is able to do all things.
this Name is in the Qur’an
What it asks of you
Ask what in your week you are treating as permanent. Then ask what it is standing on.
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