After spending 11 years in prison Al Hallaq was tortured and crucified by the Abbasid rulers. There are many accounts which say that even under torture Al Hallaj was calm, detached and was willing to forgivee those who tortured him.
Before Al Hallaj was put to death he said:
Now stands no more between Truth and me
Or reasoned demonstration,
Or proof of revelation;
Now, brightly blazing full, Truth's lumination
Each flickering, lesser light.
picture by Chris Hamilton
About Me
- keith hamilton
- i am a butterfly or a tree. perhaps a mountain stream, or a beam of sunlight early in the morning. i am buddhist, and christian, and muslim and jew and hindu too. my creed is silence. there are no capitals in my name nor capitols where i come from. my flag is weaved from cotton still dotting fields like snow and its pole stands uncut amongst the ponderosa forest. i am brown and red and white and black. i am man and woman, mother and father, son and daughter, sister and brother. i am stranger and friend, never enemy. now you see me and then you don't but i am here with you just the same as you are with me. we are as inseperable as day is from light. i am on the no way to a land infinitely near and forever present.
the no-path leads to where you are
there is enough in the land of now
now-where the children play
2 comments:
Could you explain more as to what Al said? I don't quite understand it thus so poetically.
as he is approaching his death he is ever more aware of God, Truth's lumination. All the arguments and reasons and proofs of God pass away as now nothing stands between Al Hallaj and Truth.
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