Cherry blossoms all over
I ponder
On "I am the truth".
Mansoor Al Hallaj said so
And got slain
By the Baghdadis.
Bayazid Bastami too
Said this but
In encrypted style.
Junaid and even Dhun-noon
Fully knew
The truth of Hallaj.
Martyrdom is not easy
Yet I must
Keep pondering deeply:
"Ann'al Haq"
Is not a lie at all
But it is wise to be quiet
And move on
On the path of good
For the drop must join the sea.
(Written and posted by Muhammad Naveed Ahmed/Emmenay on Saturday, April 16, 2011).
Author's Notes/Comments:
Mansoor Al Hallaj was a well known mystic of Baghdad during the Abbasid era. He started meditating on "Minn'al Haqq" which is Arabic for "Where is the truth?" And, as history relates, he was immersed so much in his contemplation that his lips started uttering "Ann'al Haqq" which is Arabic for "I am the truth". When asked by the theologians of the time --- who were accusing him of blasphemy -- what he meant by uttering "I am the truth" when (as they asserted) only God Almighty is THE truth, Mansoor Al Hallaj replied thus: "It does not matter...as the drop must join the sea." Only a few understood the meaning of Mansoor's reply and in the end he was executed. The other names I have mentioned here are all names of those mystics and gnostics who were in almost the same meditative state as Mansoor Al Hallaj at some point in their lives. Yet they knew that it was a divine mystical secret which cannot be understood by everybody. I agree.
