The purpose of every religion is to provide devotees with a full package of precepts and practices for spiritual progress towards the divine. 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.