The Truth
وَقُلْ جَآءَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ ٱلْبَـٰطِلُ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلْبَـٰطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا
“And say, ‘Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished. Indeed, falsehood is bound to vanish.”
Surah Al-Isra 17:81
Inspired by this verse, we focus on the importance of truth within us. To live in truth is one of your greatest powers. As the verse reminds us, falsehood is destined to fade, and what is real will always rise. When we cling to ego, false behaviors, or a constructed image of who we think we should be, the light of sincerity becomes trapped within the heart. Slowly, we drift away from our true self, our original, radiant nature.
The Divine name ‘Al-Ḥaqq’, ‘The Real’, ‘The Truth’, is deeply powerful. God is Truth. And the more we tune ourselves to what is genuine, whether it’s clarity about a situation, a belief, or something about our own inner nature, the closer we feel to the Divine. We begin to sense that inner gold, that spark that cannot be faked or forced.
When there’s a fog within us, we don’t need to fight it, we can bring in more light, and let it reveal what’s already true beneath the shadows.
Our human vision is limited. We only see about five percent of what truly exists, the rest belongs to the unseen, the vastness beyond perception. This is why aligning with our most authentic self and praying, as the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did, to “see things as they truly are,” becomes a sacred compass. From there, an alignment takes place, with self, with Source, with what is real.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”
Carl Jung
Close your eyes. Tune into your real, authentic self
If you were fully you, what would you do?
How would you move, speak, create, or choose?
What is your inner compass quietly guiding you toward?
Today, take one small step in alignment with that truth.
“A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you’re not living in alignment; you’re not be being true to yourself.”
Reflections on Life and the Human Experience – Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You
“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”
Meditations on First Philosophy – Rene Descartes
“I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one’s waggon to it.”
An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mohandas Gandhi
