This demands four interlaced ingredients without which no religion can deliver the goods thoroughly. Heterodoxy presumes that the metaphysical Hakikat component is the whole of religion. The Marefat, Tarikat and Shariat components lay down specific religious practices, making one religion different from another in order to provide different spiritual diets to different soul-groups. Hakikat deals with the fundamental Natural laws and truths underlying all creation, basically shared by all religions despite variations in terminology, treatment, scope or emphasis. Truth is one, indivisible and universal.
Eternal truths apply throughout the universe without exception.
A religion is more than just its philosophic Hakikat component. A religion is a complete synergetic system. Its four components are carefully integrated to form a connected whole, with the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. While Hakikat expresses the philosophical, abstract and general side of a religion, Marefat, Tarikat and Shariat express its practical, concrete and specific side. What should be appreciated, however, is that the abstractions of Hakikat are translated and transferred into progressively more tangible forms in each of the other three components, thereby yielding a fully integrated, interacting and unified system.