Religion (Din) means the whole universe, the Universal Programming, the Universal System, the systematized or natural engineering of the universe and how the universe is been programmed and organized in the universal Quantum-Energy activities, processes and services.
There are three stages of Universal Programming (Religion); (a) Shari'ah (b) Tariqah, and (c)
Haqiqah in ascending order.
Shari'ah:
It is the road, map, architecture, structure and paradigm of the Universal Systematized and
natural Energy pathways, it is the external and the starting point of transcendental (Islam /
annihilation and submission). It is the act of reflecting the Source (Allah) through the
external existence in its programmed way respect to the loops of permutation and
combination of Theophany (Tajalli) of the Source (Allah, the Grand Energy).
The dimension of Shari'ah starts from the external surface of existence, to the inner level of existence, which is Tariqah, and to the innermost level of existence, which is Haqiqah.
These three grand levels of Religion (i.e. the universe) are not different, but one reality with
a three scales of Energy transcendentalism. An example / analogy of this is, water as a whole is the Shari'ah, which is the material dimension, the inner molecular as well as other quantum patterns of water is the Tariqah, and the initial substance / Grand Energy of water is the Haqiqah. In a short sentence, I say, "this road (Shari'ah) is the way (Tariqah) that leads you to the Essence of Allah / God - the Grand Energy (Haqiqah)".
Tariqah:
It is the universal Energy pathways and the potential patterns of the Quantum-Energy
dimensions (i.e. the station of Iman / belief, inner perceptions, Energy / Spiritual orders).
Moreover, it is the act of reflecting through the spiritual / energetic path i.e. wave or Energy imaginative trajectory path that is potentially within all things which leads a person to the Source (Allah / Grand Energy). All the levels of Universal Manifestation are potentially programmed, organized and created, by the loop of permutation and combination of Quantum-Energy patterns.
The cells are permutations of organized patterns, and again each cell is fundamentally a
permutation of molecular patterns.
Molecules are also potentially and fundamentally permutations of atomic patterns.
Atoms are also fundamentally and potentially permutations of subatomic patterns,
respectively till the Pure and the Grand Energy / the Real (Allah / God).
These organizations of energetic / spiritual patterns or pathways of the microcosmic and the
macrocosmic level of the universe is what is known as the Tariqah.
The scientific reality of all Gnostic and Sufi energetic orders (Turuq; plural of Tariqah) is
that the first stage in every Divine energetic path (Tariqah) is "Istighfar", which is the excavation of Energy blockages / hindrance and returning / realigning to the natural state of the Energy patterns, so that we perceive and transcend the second stage of reality.
In the second stage, after transcending the initial stage of reality during our ascension in
Wazhifah (a kind of meditation), we perceive the ever-persistent ongoing Divine universal Energy flood, downpour, disclosure and manifestation.
This state is the state of Quantum-Energy activities, processes and services ("this is the
reality of Salatu ala an-nabi which is the second stage of spiritual order, as well as the Divine universal disclosure"). The absolute secret of Divine disclosure is Salatu al-fatih and Jauharatu al-kamal.
And the third stage after transcending the Divine Quantum-Energy activities of manifestation in the second stage is total annihilation in our Absolute Initial Reality, the Grand Universal Energy which is prior to Divine Activities ("this is the reality of 'La ilaha illa Allah' i.e. nothing exists only Allah / God / the Grand Universal Energy).
Haqiqah:
It is the absolute initial fundamental reality of everything, which is the dimension of the
Vibratory Grand Universal Energy and the Grand Universal Energy (i.e. the station of Ihsan). Moreover, it is the Truth and the Source after passing the former two cosmic imaginative stages that leads to this final destination (the universal Grand Energy, Nur Muhammad).
The perception and knowledge of these realities is "Ma'rifah" (Gnostic, universal sciences) which is where Sufism / Divine Science is authorized.