MA AL HAQ

Allah (swt) is asking us : MA AL HAQ or What is the Truth? Have we ever actually gave a thought to His question.

The Sure Reality!
What is the Sure Reality?
And what will make thee realize what the Sure Reality is? (69:1-3)

The awareness of the ultimate reality is beyond human sense perception no answer is given to this question. Allah (swt) has given us this Quran , His Verses, His Signs to those who thinks, who reflects, who considers.

Thus doth Allah make clear (His) sign to you that you may give thought (2:226)

There are two types of verses or ayats are in the Quran 1) Substantive 2) Allegoric.

Substantive verses are : Commands, Duties, Laws that which we can understand by our sense perception.

Allegoric verse are : That which we cannot understand by our sense perception. e.g Throne of Allah, Akirat, Day of Judgment, Heaven and Hell, Spirits, Angles, the Unseen (2:3), essence of Allah (swt) etc.

Reality is a question that meet us in our search for truth. We, Muslims describe Allah (swt) by 99 Names or Attributes one of which is Al –Haqq : The Truth or The Real.

Allah ask us this question to make us think about our theoretical capacity to understand reality. The last two verse of the same surah states:

But verily it (the Quran) is Truth of assured certainty.
So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High. (69:51-52)

If we compare the last verses with the first of same surah that which raises the very issue of reality- focus our attention on our process of realizing truth and our sense of certainty about it, a reality that would work for us.

How do we humans judge? We judge by evidence and seeing. And it is like seeing is believing. But we do not see God by our eyes and when someone (from any three monotheistic religion) point out to us that this is the truth and this the way to reach the truth we almost certainly turn our back on it. what is meaningful to us is our own individual process of realizing the truth. We are less attracted to God as He knows Himself than to our own individual process of realizing the truth.

This is because each of us carries within himself a picture of reality. The picture or the shell (our own concept of friends, family, lovers spouse, employers, employees etc) when it is removed we are brought into contact with a larger perception of “reality”.

We can neither embrace reality nor see it the way it sees itself.

Some Islamic scholars had said that this reality is the Hereafter the Day of Resurrection and Judgment.

Allah (swt) states :

It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in truth (6.73)

We have to seek to see or know what can of reality through our 5 sense perception, we must strive to see the world as Allah (swt) want us to sees it. And for this He has given us His Signs, He has given us The Truth i.e The Quran through which we can guide our self. The Quran is part of the ultimate Truth which Allah (swt) has given us by which we can take knowledge, wisdom and the guidance to reach closer to the Ultimate Truth.

Thus doth Allah make his signs clear to you: that ye may be guided (3:103)

And our Prophet Muhammad (sm) has shown the way (his sunnah) that how to take Guidance from the Quran and Signs of Allah (swt).

He who obeys the Messenger (Muhammad (sm)) has indeed obeyed Allah.... (4:80)

They said: "Glory to Thee of knowledge we have none save that Thou hast taught us: in truth it is Thou who art perfect in knowledge and wisdom." (2:32)

Say: "Of your `partners' is there any that can give any guidance towards Truth?" Say: "It is Allah Who gives guidance towards Truth. Is then He Who gives guidance to Truth more worthy to be followed or he who finds not guidance (himself) unless he is guided? What then is the matter with you? How judge ye?" (10:35)