حَاقَّةٌ
Root: حق
Full Definition
2 Also A severe calamity or affliction, the happening of which is fixed, or established; and so حَقَّةٌ ; which signifies also, [according to another explanation,] like حُقَّةٌ , [simply,] a calamity; or a great, formidable, terrible, or momentous, thing, or event: and حَاجَةٌ حَاقَّةٌ a want that befalls, or happens, and is severe, or distressing.
3 And الحَاقَّةُ [in the Kur lxix. 1 and 2] means The resurrection: because in it shall be [manifest] the true natures (حَوَاقّ) of things, or actions; or because in it shall be [or shall happen ] severe calamities (حَوَاقُّ الأُمُورِ); namely, the reckoning and the recompensing: or because in it things shall be surely known which are denied; namely, the raising of the dead, and the reckoning, and the recompensing: or because including within its sphere [all] the created beings.
4 See also حَاقٌّ, in two places.
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