Mansur Al-Hallaj

Mansur Al-Hallaj in entirety Abû `Abd Allah Al-Husayn Mansur Al-Hallaj (Arab: rear RTL منصورالحلاج, Persan: RTL F منصورحلاج, Mansūr-e Hallāj), born towards 857 (or 244 of Hégire), died in March 27th 922 (or 309 of Hégire) with Baghdad, was most subtle of the mystics of the Soufisme, author of an abundant work tending to join again with the pure origin of the Coran and its verbal and lettric gasoline.

Search of “the Equatorial Alphabet”, its poetry is regarded still today as a heresy by the many islamist ones, whereas it is acted in fact of a research of the Absolute and its language. Its approach of the Koranic text is primarily related to the gasoline of the letters of which he recommends that they are the expression even of the divine thought. It is with Louis Massignon that one owes the redécouverte, in Islam, of the forgotten Al-Hallaj texts, of which he was the first translator in European language.

Biography

Born towards 857 meadows from Tur in Iran, his/her grandfather, according to the tradition, was a zoroastrien and went down from Abu Ayub, a companion of Mahomet. His/her father worked in the town of Wasit and launched out in the trade of wool. Its name means: the wool carder.

Little satisfied by traditional teaching the Coran, and attracted by an ascetic life, it attended Masters of the Sufism like Sahl At-Tustari, 'Amr ibn 'Uthman Al-Makki and Abu Al-Qasim Al Junayd then highly respected.

Sahl At-Tustari was its first Master who lived alone with Tustar in the Kazakhstan. He married the girl of the Master soufi Abu Ya' qub Al-Aqta'.

Al-Hallaj became preacher in Iran, then in India and to the borders of the China. Returned in Baghdad, it is suspecté as well by the sunnites as by the Shiites for its mystical ideas (research of the divine love and the union of the heart and God) and its influence on crowd. It is wrongfully shown to have taken part in the Révolte of Zanj, but its judgment itself results owing to the fact that it had proclaimed " publicly; I am the Truth (God) " (" Anna Al haqq"), which was seen like a heresy, as well in the Sunnisme as in the Chiisme.

This assertion, if it should not theoretically be public, is not incongruous in the medium soufi in which the mystic being " fondu" in l'" ocean of the divinité" , this kind of matter is regarded as emanating from a man who has a very high spiritual row. The translations of Louis Massignon come to support this thesis, the majority of the verses of the Diwan of Hallaj dealing with the " science of Unité" (Tawhid).

Not wanting to disavow these public remarks, Hallaj is condemned to died and torture victim in Baghdad the March 27th 922. There will remain one of largest the Martyr S of the Soufisme and its torment will be mentioned many times in the writings of Rûmî, for example.

Quotations

"Which ground is empty of You so that one springs to seek You with the sky? You see them who Te look at the great day but blind they do not see You pas"

- Mystical Poems translated by Sami-Ali (Albin Michel, 1998)

"By pride I refused the happiness of the love. And I undergone the punishment of the orgueil"

- Mystical Poems translated by Sami-Ali (Albin Michel, 1998)

Works

Diwan , poems translated and presented by Louis Massignon, ED. threshold, 1955.
mystical Poems translated and presented by Sami-Ali, ED. Albin Michel, 1998.

Works on Al Hallaj

Louis Massignon, Akhbar Al-Hallaj , collection of speeches and exhortations of the mystical martyr of Islam, edition J. Vrin, collection Moslem Studies, 1975. Bilingual edition.
Louis Massignon, Test on the Origins of the technical Lexicon of the Moslem mystic , editions J. Vrin, Paris 1954.
Jacques Keryell, Garden Given , Louis Massignon with the research of the Absolute, ED. Saint-Paul, Paris, 1993.
Louis Massignon, the passion of Husayn ibn Mansûr Hallâj , 4 flight, Gallimard, Paris 1975.

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