Ḥaqīqa

حقيقةḥaqīqa

Preferred translation
reality
Technical senses
  • concrete reality
  • truth of cognition
Distinguish from
ḥaqq (truth) — ḥaqq is truth or the Real; ḥaqīqa is the objective reality of a thing.

General Technical Meaning

Ḥaqīqa is a thing's firmly established reality; in linguistic analysis it also marks literal usage as opposed to metaphor.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

Concrete reality

In the reviewed ontological passage, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses al-ḥaqīqa al-ʿayniyya for the concrete reality to which the original aspect of a thing corresponds. This use must remain distinct from the term’s epistemic use for a true cognition and from al-ḥaqq as a divine designation.

Source: Nihāyat al-Ḥikmah

Truth of cognition

In the reviewed Uṣūl passage, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses ḥaqīqa for a cognition insofar as it corresponds to reality and nafs al-amr. The passage expressly distinguishes this epistemic truth from reality itself.

Source: Uṣūl-i Falsafah wa Rawish-i Riʾālism

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Canonical address: /glossary/haqiqa/