 Qûnawî differentiates Ibn ‘Arabî’s position from that of falsafa and scholastic theology (Kalam) by calling it mashrab al-tahqîq, “the school of realization”. Tahqîq is indeed the cornerstone of Ibn ‘Arabî’s vast corpus, so it is important to have a sense of what it means. The word is derived from the same root as haqq and haqîqa, key terms in all the sciences. Haqq means true, real, right, worthy, and appropriate (in modern times, it is used to speak of human “rights”); haqîqa means reality and truth. The Koran uses haqq, the conceptual opposite of bâtil (false, vain, unreal, inappropriate), in a variety of senses, not least as a divine name, “the Real, the True”, and to designate the content of revelation (the Koran and earlier scriptures). Haqîqa is not a Koranic term, but it was used in the Hadith literature and given special attention in philosophy. Tahqîq or “realization” means to speak, affirm, and actualize haqq and haqîqa—truth, reality, rightness, appropriateness. Ibn ‘Arabî finds its role in human becoming encapsulated in the Prophet’s saying, “Everything has a haqq, so give to each that has a haqq its haqq”. In other words, everything in the universe, society, and the soul has a rightness and an appropriateness, and the human task vis-à-vis each thing is to act rightly and appropriately; or, everything has rights, and people have the responsibility (that is, the haqq “against them”, ‘alayhim) to observe those rights.