ABSTRACT

The sharʿī concept of ḥaqq 1 navigates the cosmological-sociological spectrum robustly, from one end to the other. Ḥaqq is not only the Truth of the divine as ontology, but also the theological and supra-deontological source of that which is socially just (ʿadl), right (mustaqīm), and equitable (qisṭ). Ḥaqq is God as one and many, this being a ‘dualistic’ presence of His saturating the world in its unity, plurality and particularity. That which is right and equitable is derivative of the Truth, for the Truth, tautologically, encompasses all that is right and equitable.