Arabic · noun · Spirit & the Divine

Haqq

हक़

said haqq

Meaning

Truth, reality, the Real; one of the Names of God; also a right or due.

How Iqbal uses it

Haqq is at once Truth, the Real, and a Divine Name. Iqbal calls the self to stand for haqq against batil, fusing the love of truth with the courage to enact it in the world.

See it in the verse

Haqq in Iqbal’s couplets

Aaeen-e-jawan-mardan haq-goi-o-be-baaki
Allah ke sheron ko aati nahin rubaahi

The code of the brave is to speak the truth and to be fearless — the lions of God do not know the ways of the fox.

Courage · Justice · Selfhood

Related words

ARABIC

Batil

Falsehood, vanity, that which is null and void.

ARABIC

Haqeeqat

Reality; the Truth, the ultimate essence (the opposite of majaz).

ARABIC

Ana'l-Haqq

"I am the Truth/the Real" — the ecstatic utterance of the martyr-mystic Mansur al-Hallaj.

← Back to the dictionary