Mansur al hallaj biography of alberta california

Eventually he returned to Baghdad, where his bold preaching of union with God caused him to be arrested on a charge of incarnations.

He obtained a BA

Author of a number of books and a considerable volume of poetry, he passed into Muslim legend as the prototype of the intoxicated lover of God. He made his first journey at the age of eighteen. Thereafter he went to Basra and joined Amr ibn Othman, passing eighteen months in his company. Yaqub-e Aqta gave him his daughter in marriage, after which Amr ibn Othman became displeased with him.

So he left Basra and came to Baghdad where he called on Junaid. Junaid prescribed for him silence and solitude. He took up residence in Mecca for one year, after which he returned to Baghdad. With a group of Sufis he attended on Jonaid and put a number of questions to him to which Jonaid gave no reply. The day when I incarnadine that piece of wood, Hallaj replied, you will be wearing the garb of the formalists.

So it turned out. On the day when the leading scholars pronounced the verdict that Hallaj must be executed, Jonaid was wearing the Sufi robe and did not sign the warrant. So Jonaid put on the academic turban and gown, went to the madrasa and endorsed the warrant. We judge according to externals, he wrote. As for the inward truth, that God alone knows.

When Jonaid declined to answer his questions, Hallaj was vexed and without asking leave departed to Tostar. There he remained for a year, widely acclaimed.