#al-hallaj

[majestativa]

Then, drunk from its inner pain, [the Phoenix] throws itself on the awesome fire.

NIMA YOOSHIJ (نيما يوشيج) — Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry, on Mansur Al-Hallaj, Ed. & transl. by Levi Thompson, (2023)

[a-garden-among-the-flames]

 سِرُّ السَرائِرِ مَطوِيٌّ بِإِثباتِ - مِن جانِبِ الأُفُقِ مِن نورٍ بِطَيّاتِ

The mystery of mysteries is folded in affirmation

From the edge of the horizon, by a light folded upon itself

[loneberry]

From The Tawasin by Mansur al-Hallaj

[Excerpt from the "The Ta-Sin of the Point" section.]

8. I am absorbed in the sea of the depths of eternity and he who reaches the circle of Truth is occupied on the shore of the sea of knowledge with his own knowledge. He is absent from my vision.

9. I saw a certain bird from the selves of the Sufis which flew with the two wings of Sufism. He denied my glory as he persisted in his flight.

10. He asked me about purity and I said to him: Cut your wings with the shears of annihilation. If not you cannot follow me.

11. He said to me: I fly with my wings to my Beloved. I said to him: Alas for thee! Because there is naught like Him, He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. So then he fell into the sea of understanding and was drowned.

12. One can represent the ocean of understanding thus:

I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart

I saw: Who are You? He said: You!

But for You, where cannot have a place

And there is no where when it concerns You.

The mind has no image of your existence in time

Which would permit the mind to know where you are.

You are the one who encompasses every where

Up to the point of no-where

So where are you?

.

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[Read The Tawasin (كتاب الطواسين) here.]

[alwayswiselight]

Mansur Al-Hallaj (858 AD-March 26, 922 AD) was a great Sufi mystic who achieved union with God and declared this with the words "I am the Truth" (Ana'l-Haqq). He was tried and executed in the most horrible manner for this so-called blasphemy. After being crucified, the executioners began to dismember his body while he was still conscious. His ecstasy was so great that he smiled even when he was being decapitated.

I've enjoyed for some years a volume of Al-Hallaj's poems translated by Paul Smith. So, I recently acquired a copy of the Tawasin (pictured above). It focuses on the One (Allah) and the one (Prophet Mohammad). It's really quite beautiful. And, it brings to my mind Pythagoras' philosophy of numbers in which the number one (Monad) represents the one truth (God) and unity. It's so rewarding to make this kind of connection. That's why I believe that we should all focus on our similarities rather than our differences.

PEACE

[theinwardlight]

[aschenblumen]

Eres Tú quien me apasiona, la evocación           no me apasiona Lejos de mi corazón que mi evocación se le adhiera La evocación es una mediación que Te oculta a           mi mirada Cuando el pensamiento se reviste de él por el pensamiento

Al-Hallaj, Poemas místicos (17). Versión de Soledad Fariña.

[unofficialchronicle]

Other men go away for their pilgrimage, but my own pilgrimage is towards the place where I am.

Al-Hallaj (c. 858—922). translated by Mustaca Badawi (“Seven Poems of Al-Hallaji;” journal of Arabic Lit 14). Night & Horses & the Desert, Robert Irwin. p. 131

[finita--la--commedia]

You are the distance I must go, My spring of springs, My reasoning, my words, These stammerings. You are everything I am My hearing and my sight, My universe, My trifling things. The sum of everything I am You are.

al-Hallaj, from “Three Qasidas” in: “The Literary Heritage of the Arabs. An Anthology”, edited by Suheil Bushrui & James M. Malarkey