Quranic root
حقق
ḥ · q · q
The root centers on making something firm, sound, fitting, and established as true or right, in contrast to falsehood.
From the idea of sound correspondence and secure establishment develop the meanings of truth and reality, what is due or obligatory, verification and validation, entitlement, and disputing a claim. Other branches extend to fittingness, central joining or sockets, and things that have reached a settled condition.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَقَّ
ḥaqqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 20 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To become established as true, certain, or a realized fact; to prove true or come to pass.
Intransitive Form I usage, including expressions in which a saying, promise, judgment, or consequence becomes established or takes effect.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 36:7word 2
“(has) proved true”
To become due, obligatory, incumbent, or justly deserved.
Often construed with عَلَى; may describe an obligation, a deserved consequence, or a judgment that becomes binding and takes effect. The passive حُقَّتْ is included under this sense.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 39:19word 2
“became due”
Quran 84:2word 3
“and was obligated”
أَحَقَّ
ʾaḥaqqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To establish, validate, or make the truth prevail.
The Quranic construction إِحْقَاقُ الْحَقِّ includes establishing truth by manifesting its proofs and by completing and disseminating the revealed way.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:8word 1
“That He might justify”
Quran 42:24word 16
“and establishes”
اِسْتَحَقَّ
āistaḥaqqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form X
- Form
- X
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To have, claim, or become entitled to a right or due; to deserve it.
Used of a lawful claim or title, including a right established against another person.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:107word 12
“have a lawful right”
To incur or deserve a blameworthy consequence, especially sin or punishment.
In the Quranic construction concerning wrongdoing, the subject has done what makes the consequence deserved.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:107word 5
“(were) guilty”
أَحَقُّ
ʾaḥaqqu
- Part of speech
- Comparative adjective / noun
- Quran occurrences
- 10 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
More entitled, deserving, worthy, or strongly possessed of a right or claim.
A comparative expression: it may denote an exclusive right or a right shared with another but stronger in degree.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:228word 23
“(have) better right”
Truer, more valid, or more deserving of acceptance.
Used comparatively of a statement, testimony, or judgment whose truth or validity is stronger than an alternative.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:107word 18
“(is) truer”
حَاقَّة
ḥāqqah
- Part of speech
- Noun · active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
The Inevitable Reality: the Resurrection and its unavoidable reckoning and recompense.
The Quranic proper designation الْحَاقَّةُ, explained as the event in which denied realities become manifest and the created beings are encompassed.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 69:1word 1
“The Inevitable Reality”
Quran 69:2word 2
“(is) the Inevitable Reality”
حَقِيق
ḥaqīq
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Bound, disposed, or fit to do something; worthy or obliged to do it.
In حَقِيقٌ عَلَى أَنْ, the Quranic expression is read either as expressing obligation or as disposition and earnest fitness to refrain from speaking falsely about God.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:105word 1
“Obligated”
حَقّ
ḥaqq
- Part of speech
- Noun / adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 247 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Truth, reality, or what accords with fact rather than falsehood.
Applied to realities, statements, beliefs, revelation, judgments, and events; it can also qualify what is correct, sound, or genuinely established.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:213word 13
“in [the] truth”
A right, due, entitlement, or binding obligation.
Used for what is owed or incumbent, including a person's due, a duty, or what justice requires. Prepositional expressions such as بِالْحَقِّ and حَقًّا are covered here when the context is due or right conduct rather than bare truth.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:180word 14
“a duty”
The Real or True One, applied to God.
A divine epithet emphasizing real existence and divinity established according to wisdom and justice.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:30word 11
“the true”
The Qur'an or revealed truth, used as a designation of the revelation.
A Quranic designation emphasizing the revelation's status as established truth; this is distinct from the ordinary abstract meaning “truth.”
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A decreed or destined thing or event.
A reported Quranic interpretation of بِالْحَقِّ in 15:8; other interpretations of that expression include revelation or punishment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 15:8word 5
“with the truth”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:26ٱلْحَقُّ(is) the truth
- 2:42ٱلْحَقَّthe Truth
- 2:42ٱلْحَقَّthe Truth
- 2:61ٱلْحَقِّ ۗ[the] right
- 2:71بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚwith the truth
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 74 Classical meanings
حَقّ
Suitableness or correspondence to the requirements of wisdom, justice, rightness, or the circumstances of a case; secure or established existence.
The broad primary nominal sense from which more particular meanings are derived, including the proper fitting of one thing to another.
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حَقّ
Equity, justice, and rightness in conduct.
A specialized nominal meaning distinct from truth as a statement or reality.
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حَقّ
The proper or right mode of acting or being.
Applied to conduct or manner rather than to a right claimed by a person.
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حَقّ
Veracity in speech.
A specialized use concerning the truthfulness of a speaker or utterance.
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حَقّ
Prudence or sound judgment.
A lexical specialization concerning wise judgment or practical conduct.
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حَقّ
A particular right, due, claim, desert, fee, hire, price, duty, or obligation.
The concrete entitlement or liability belonging to a person or imposed upon one; distinct from the Quranic abstract sense when used in broader legal and social contexts.
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حَقّ
A share or portion assigned to someone.
Used of an allotted portion as in giving each person his due share.
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حَقّ
Property or a possession.
A concrete possession rather than an abstract right to possess.
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حَقّ
An appurtenance or necessary convenience belonging to a place or household.
The plural حُقُوق may denote the conveniences or appurtenances of a house.
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حَقّ
A necessary or requisite thing.
Used of something required by the circumstances or by a settled order.
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حَقّ
Death.
A reported interpretive use for an expression involving the agony of death; the historical bracketed citation is not treated as a modern verse location.
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حَقّ
Islam as the true or rightly established religion.
A specialized application of the noun to the religion of Islam.
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حَقّ
An emphatic intensifier meaning extremely or fully, as in “the truly learned.”
Restricted to idiomatic nominal constructions such as حَقُّ عَلِيمٍ.
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حَقَّ
To be proper, fitting, or incumbent for someone to do something.
Occurs in constructions such as حُقَّ لَكَ and مَا كَانَ يَحُقُّكَ; this is a constructional use distinct from an event becoming due.
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حَقَّ
To happen, befall, or occur surely.
An intransitive event use emphasizing that the event occurred without doubt.
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حَقَّ
To distress, afflict, or cause grief.
In حَقَّ عَلَيَّ, the construction may mean that another's action or departure is distressing to the speaker.
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حَقَّ
Of camels, to become fat.
An animal husbandry use of the intransitive verb.
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حَقَّ
To establish, verify, ascertain, or judge something true or necessary; to make it firm or due.
Transitive usage includes certifying a report, confirming a judgment, and making a knot secure.
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حَقَّ
To tie, fasten, or tighten a knot firmly.
A figurative extension of making something secure.
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حَقَّ
To render someone adapted, fit, suitable, or worthy to do something.
A transitive causative construction related to حَقِيقٌ بِـ.
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حَقَّ
To overcome someone in disputing or contending for a right.
The object is a rival in a claim or legal contention.
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حَقَّ
To reach someone or something, or to amount to a specified measure.
Includes reaching a person and the expression for contents reaching or amounting to a stated weight.
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حَقَّ
To go along the middle or central part of a road, or to strike the central part or socket of the head or shoulder.
A specialized locational and anatomical construction.
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حَقَّقَ
To make saturated or firm, including dyeing thoroughly or weaving compactly.
A Form II intensifying use applied to dyeing and textiles.
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حَقَّقَ
To be serious or in earnest about an affair.
The Form II verb is contrasted with joking or frivolity.
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حَاقَّ
To dispute, litigate, or contend with another, each claiming a right or due; sometimes to prevail in that contention.
The Form III verb is commonly used in reciprocal or third-person dispute constructions.
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حَاقَّ
To act seriously or earnestly with someone in an affair.
A derived construction related to earnest engagement rather than reciprocal litigation.
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أَحَقَّ
To speak truth, reveal or manifest a truth or right, or lay claim to a right that becomes due.
Broader Form IV usage beyond the Quranic sense of establishing truth.
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أَحَقَّ
Of a people's cattle, to become fat.
An intransitive animal husbandry use.
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أَحَقَّ
To put an affair into a firm, sound, or good state.
A transitive and figurative Form IV use.
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أَحَقَّ
To kill an animal outright with a cast or shot.
A specialized hunting expression.
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أَحَقَّ
Of camels, to find and fully pasture upon suitable herbage.
Used with the name of a type of spring herbage.
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تَحَقَّقَ
To become or prove to be a truth, reality, or fact.
Also used of information becoming true, correct, or valid in someone's estimation.
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تَحَاقَّ
To dispute or litigate together, each party demanding his own right or due.
Reciprocal Form VI usage; it is not normally used of a single person.
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اِنْحَقَّ
Of a knot, to become tied, fastened, or tightened.
A specialized intransitive Form VII construction.
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اِحْتَقَّ
Of a thrust or piercing, to go directly into or through something, sometimes killing it.
Used of a piercing that reaches the inside or strikes a socket directly.
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اِحْتَقَّ
To hold someone back, retard him, or keep him in straitness until a specified time or event.
A transitive Form VIII construction.
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اِحْتَقَّ
Of a horse, to become lean or light of flesh.
An animal-condition use.
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اِحْتَقَّ
Of cattle, to become fat, with the fatness reaching its fullest condition.
A specialized intransitive animal husbandry use.
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اِسْتَحَقَّ
Of a camel, to become fit to be ridden, laden, or used for covering.
The subject is a camel that has reached the suitable age or condition.
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اِسْتَحَقَّ
Of a she-camel, to conceive or become pregnant.
A specialized animal-reproduction construction.
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حَقْحَقَ
To drive or make a riding beast travel at an exhausting pace, beyond its strength.
The Form R.Q. I noun حَقْحَقَةٌ denotes fatiguing or excessively strenuous journeying, especially by camel.
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حُقّ
The breast or mamma of an old woman.
An anatomical noun distinct from the general meaning of حَقّ.
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حُقّ
A tuber of a truffle.
A botanical noun.
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حُقّ
A small hollow, socket, or meeting-place of bones, including the shoulder, hip, or a door hinge.
The term may denote an anatomical socket or the socket of a wooden door.
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حُقّ
A spider's web.
A specialized concrete noun.
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حِقّ
A camel that has entered its fourth year and is fit to be ridden, laden, or used for covering.
The female is حِقَّة; the term refers to age and resulting fitness, not merely to an arbitrary young camel.
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حِقّ
The established or usual time of a she-camel's pregnancy or expected delivery.
Used of the period corresponding to the time when she was covered in the preceding year.
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حِقَاق
The young growth of trees, especially of the mimosa called عُرْفُط.
A plural lexical use by analogy with camels called حِقَاق.
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حُقَّة
A small receptacle or box, especially one for perfume, ointment, snuff, or similar substances.
A concrete container noun with several material variants.
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حُقَّة
A woman, by comparison with the receptacle or its shape.
An explicitly figurative use.
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حَقَق
Of a horse, the condition of not sweating and of placing the hind hoof where the fore hoof had been.
Both are described as faults or distinctive gait conditions.
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حُقُق
Persons recently acquainted with or knowledgeable about events and affairs, good and bad.
A plural noun derived from an active-participial branch.
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حُقُق
Persons establishing or asserting a claim.
A separate plural use referring to claimants.
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حَقِيق
Adapted, suited, fit, proper, competent, worthy, or entitled to something.
The general adjective is construed with بِـ, لِـ, or an implied بِأَنْ construction.
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حَقِيقَة
The essence, essential constitution, or true nature of a thing or affair.
Includes the ultimate constituent of a thing and the reality, gist, or essential facts of a case.
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حَقِيقَة
A word or expression used in its proper, original, or conventionally established literal sense, as opposed to a metaphorical sense.
A technical linguistic and legal-theoretical use; حَقِيقَةٌ عُرْفِيَّةٌ is a conventionalized proper use.
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حَقِيقَة
That which, or those whom, one is obliged to defend or protect.
In حَامِي الْحَقِيقَةِ, the noun may include household members, dependants, neighbors, or property requiring protection.
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حَقِيقَة
A banner or standard.
An explicitly extended use included under the protected emblem or people.
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حَقِيقَة
That which is sacred or inviolable and must be respected or honored.
A figurative extension of what one is bound to protect.
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حَقْحَاق
A hurried, laborious night journey to water.
A fixed collocation describing strenuous or rapid travel.
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حَاقّ
True, complete, or perfect, especially perfect in manliness or courage.
Used in emphatic descriptive constructions such as a man perfect in manliness or courage.
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حَاقّ
Vehement or severe hunger.
Occurs in the collocation حَاقُّ الجُوعِ, with an alternative analysis relating it to hunger besetting someone.
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حَاقّ
The middle or central part of the head, nape, eye, road, or winter.
A locational noun for the central point or middle of a specified thing or period.
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حَاقّ
A state of straitness caused by something.
Used in فِي حَاقٍّ مِنْ كَذَا.
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حَاقَّة
A severe calamity, affliction, or momentous event whose occurrence is fixed or established.
The general calamity sense is distinct from the Quranic proper designation of the Resurrection.
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أَحَقّ
Of a horse, one that does not sweat.
A specialized animal descriptor.
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أَحَقّ
Of a horse, one that places its hind hoof where its fore hoof had been.
A gait descriptor, also called حَقَق.
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مُحِقّ
Speaking truth, revealing or manifesting a truth or right, or claiming a right that is due.
An active participle describing one who establishes or asserts the true or due claim.
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مُحَقَّق
Of speech or language, sound, compact, and orderly.
A passive-participial adjective describing well-formed or firmly articulated speech.
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مُحَقَّق
Of a garment, firmly or compactly woven and figured.
A textile use of the passive participle.
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مُحَقِّق
A critical judge or verifier in matters of literature.
A later technical use of the active participle.
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مِحَاقّ
Cattle that have not produced or been milked in the preceding year, or whose first milkings are colostrum.
A specialized livestock noun.
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مُحْتَقَّة
A thrust or piercing that proceeds without swerving from the right direction.
A fixed descriptive expression for a direct, accurately placed thrust.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
حَقِيقٌ عَلَى in 7:105 has reported readings and interpretations of obligation versus disposition or fitness; the form is therefore defined broadly enough to preserve both.
The interpretation of بِالْحَقِّ in 15:8 as a decreed or destined event is explicitly reported but is not the only interpretation.
The historical Lane notation for one reported death interpretation is not converted into a modern verse location.
Some Classical branches belong to homonymous or derived headwords and are kept separate rather than being folded into the Quranic meanings of حَقّ.