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The great Sufi mystic poet, al-Hallaj, was put to death by orthodox religous authorities for poems like this, in which he equated himself with God.
This is the danger faced by most mystics. The sacred experience is one of ecstatic union with the Divine. Where do "you" cease to be, and where does the Divine begin? In mystical union, these questions are artificial since the Divine is everywhere and no tangible sense of you as a separate individual remains. There aren't two in which to have a relationship; there is only the One.
As a result, mystics keep producing ecstatic and dangerous poems like this one and orthodox authorities keep trying to silence or marginalize them.
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2009 by Ivan M. Granger.
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