HALLAJ-I MANSOOR

 

Innocents are not forgotten

Wrong doers(Zaleems [1]) are forgotten

 

Ara Qadamî : I see my feet.

Araka dammî : My blood is flowing.

Ahana dammî :My blood is run to waste(it is a shame that it was wasted).

Aha natmî : It is a shame that I couldn’t explain my self…

 

These are Mansoor’s words…

 

I am going to mention a savagery which was put on the stage by the “fatwa[2] ” of the religious scholars, some of whom the public even raised to the level of auliyah (Friend of ALLAH), who did not know “the Divine secrets, Ledunnî âlem(world)…” 1095 years before today, in Hijri 309.

 

The ambition and understanding of the scholars who created this scene, caused these murders to be committed by distorting/altering(takhrif[3] ) the laws of shariah.

Their words are this: “Limahfazâtu’l- Shar’i [4]”

 

In the History of Mankind:

We mention a scene of savagery which had been carried out neither by Pharaohs, nor by Nimruds, neither by wild cannibals, nor by the Inquisition courts, which is not even done by wild beasts to their prey.

 

Even a wild beast kills its’ prey (şikâr) immediately.

It eats it afterwards…

 

A court had been established in Baghdad on the shore of the Tigris River.

Scholars (Ulama) were assembled…

The famous ‘Junayd’, was the Chief magistrate…

A “Fatwa” was issued…

for ‘Mansoor’…

What was the crime?

A terrific outcry shaking the surrounding area: Said “Ena’l-HAQQ: I am the TRUTH!”…

Oho Oyo!..

How can he say that?

 

He did not say “ I am ALLAH”…

No one can say this.

Even “Munkir and Nakir” do not ask and can not ask by saying “Who is ALLAH?”.

It is asked “Who is your RABB?”.

Because the Absolute truth is ALLAH.

Everything is from HIM (HÛ)

But nothing is HIM (HÛ).

 

“Every power (qudrat), soul (jann)and everything manifesting (Tajallî) within me is true!

That is True!

I confirm (tasdiq) this!

In this case my existence is ‘HAQQ’!

I am HAQQ!..” he said.

 

ALLAH, RABB, HAQQ are different.

ALLAH is the HAQQ of everything.

The Creator of everything,

Master of everything,

Craftsman(Sani) of everything.

In this respect, RABB of everything.

 

Mansoor saw within himself;

The names and powers that ALLAH gave to him:

“(ALLAH) Gave me mind (‘Aql).

(ALLAH) Gave me willpower (Irada).

That is HE(HÛ) who gave me everything.

All of these are true!” he said.

“I am the TRUTH (HAQQ)! [5]” he said.

“Me being existent (mawjud) is the TRUTH (HAQQ) and the biggest confirmation (tasdiq)!”

 

Sahabas asked to Hz.Huraira:

“Tell us of the Ladunni secrets (sirr [6]) that Rasulullah gave to you as well!”

“If I told you, you would behead me by saying ‘He has been a disbeliever(kâfir [7])”

The answer is certainly true…

 

Then again these fanatic scholars say:

“During the state of ecstasy (Sekir hâli [8]), the servant is not responsible for the words stated in the jazba! [9]”

 

Jazba means to be drawn from the beyond.

How come the stories and fiction would not be a crime?..

It is not everyone’s job to  understand the secrets of Ladunni World (Alam).

Think about What Hz. Huraira said above!..

 

ALLAH does not love the one carrying out injustice (zulm), torture, and becoming Unjust/Tyrant(Zalim).

(ALLAH) decries those people in His Book (Kelâm):

Torture is a kufr in the Religion of Islam (DiNuliSLaM)

It is to rebel against HAQQ.

 

A “Fatwa” is being issued to execute the scene of savagery. The public have a grudge and are enraged, and thousands of people are gathered, children, women, men, elderly people in Baghdad Square…

The swearing, stonings, cursing and fury surrounds the square in the form of a roar…

 

Mansoor is being hung from his armpits.

The public is throwing stones.

There is no sign of any pain or suffering on Mansoor..

He is himself in some other world.

Firstly his feet are being cut off from the ankles, then his hands from the wrists…

Mansoor is smiling…

He is in fact glad…

There is again no sound when they are carving his eyes fixed on heavens…

They are cutting his tongue and he is submitting his soul at that moment.

But the fury is not satisfied and is still continuing.

They cut his head off, then they cut his body into pieces.

They burn him and scatter his ashes in the air.

 

Now in fact everything starts after this

Baghdad is being cursed with it’s public, religious scholars and bigots.

It is still continuing from that day to today.

And it will also continue…

 

Karbalâ is on one side of the branch of the Euphrates…

 

Hulagu is destroying Baghdad.

He is cutting off 400,000 people’s heads.

 

Hajjaj is chopping off 70,000 people’s heads there.

 

This is still continuing there.

It will still continue until doomsday.

Soon, it will be destroyed completely…

 

At that time, Mansoor’s ‘Hırka’ [10] saved Baghdad from Tigris…

Now that ’Hırka’ is absent and so is the back carrying that Hırka…

Why did this event happen?…

 

ALLAH:

 

Because it is to explain that “Fighting with My friends, is the biggest mistake in my Dhat-i Ahadiyat!(Essence of the Unique Oneness)”[11]….

HE(HÛ) willed this in order to give an example to those who torment Humans, animals, and plants, in bigotry and tyranny…

That is why Mansoor forgave those deeming himself worthy of this, the ones giving the fatwa, the ones coming to watch  and the ones throwing stones. It is because of this will of HAQQ…

 

“Yâ ALLAH! Yâ RABB! Yâ HAQQ! Yâ RAUFU’d-DAYYÂN!

If you had opened to them the secrets you opened to me or if you had hidden from me the secrets you had hidden from them, this would not have happened to me!”

 

Mansoor forgave but ALLAH has not forgiven those who did this… In these words, the enclosed explanation of the will we mentioned above is hidden. 

Man cannot do everything correctly.

Sometimes, he may become desperate in appearance.

The human grave is not important.

What is important is the remembrance of that person:

While the people live, the earth waiting for Him takes him to its bosom.

Do not forget that you were created from the earth!..

You came clean from the earth so make an effort to return clean!..

 

Abu Muslumi put 50,000 men who created the Karbalâ incident to sword by 3,000 men in Khorosan.

In Manzikert (Malâzgird), Alp Arslan, with 3,000 men, destroyed the Byzantine Army with 600,000 men.

 

The acceptance of every prayer is valid for a particular period of time. Hz. Hasan’s (Al-Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib) father- in-law was Turkish.

When he entered Kufa [*], while Hz. Hasan was dying in his arms:

His prayer,

“ALLAHumma Yudhaffarakummu’l-Atrakî illa’l-abadi! ”

“Oh my ALLAH! Make the Turks always victorious!”

caused the Turks to survive…

 

[*] Kufah: Al-Kūfah is a city in Iraq, about 110miles south of Baghdad.

 

Who is that He entered in paradise (jannah) directly,

Without doing any prayers (salah),

Without doing a prostration once,

Without even fasting one day,

Without doing any other good?

Omar Ibni Sabit…

 

In the battle of Uhud, he is running away from the army of mushriqs. He is coming near Rasûlu Akram

and says:

“I will fight against our men! Should I fight first then become a muslim or should I become muslim first?”

Rasûlu Akram:

said “First become a Muslim!”

 

He made his testimony (shahada) and immediately dived in the battle, and got wounded badly.

His own relations embraced him and took him away.

“What happened to you!” they said…

“I fought!

Even against you!

I have even become a Muslim!” he said and submitted his soul to ALLAH.

Rasûl stated that he entered Paradise directly…

 

Dr.Munir Derman (K.S)

07.07.1984 Saturday

 

Translated by Barbaros Sert from the literary work of  Dr.Munir Derman, “A friend of ALLAH says that –Volume 3. Chapter 52 , (Allah dostu derki 3.Cilt ,52.Konu)”.

 

 

GLOSSARY

 

[1] Zaleem and Zulm:

 

It is the Arabic word used interchangablely for cruelty or unjust acts of exploitation, oppression, and wrong doing, whereby a person either deprives others of their rights or does not fulfill his obligations towards them.

People who commit zulm are called zalim-een.

In the Islamic context injustice or acts of cruelty are attributed to human acts and not to Allah:

“ALLAH does not do injustice to anyone. It is the people who do injustice to themselves.” (Qur’AN [11/101])

 

Zulm means ” putting something to a place where it does not belong to”. Injustice and infliction. Zulmat in Arabic means darkness. Human nafs has the ability to go up or down between ILLIYYOON and ASFALEEN.  In a way making zulm to their nafs means you waste it and burry it in to darkness and put it in the direction of ASFALEEN. If the human nafs is purified, it shines. Nafs is like a sponge, so it can soak up good or evil qualities. It is us who needs to use the sponge in right way. A wise person dips his sponge in the paint bucket of ALLAH and his sponge gets the colours of ALLAH( SIBGATULLAH), as it says in the verse,

 ” We take our colour from Allah, and who is better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippers.” (Qur’AN- Al-Bakara [02/138])

 

This means the person gets the beautiful moralities and qualities of ALLAH. However the person making Zulm to his nafs , dips his nafs in to evil qualities and he gets coloured with evil qualities then he stays in darkness(Zulmat).

 

[2] Fatwā: (Arabic word)in the Islamic faith, Fatwā is a religious opinion concerning Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar.

 

[3] Takhrif : (From kharf) Takhrif is to change the sequence of the letters in a word or sentence to alter or distort the meaning of it to suit one’s own benefit or for the disadvantage of the others.

 

[4] Limahfazâtu’l- Shar’i: In the name of protecting Shariah, that is the reason.

 

[5] AL-HAQQ: The TRUTH. Please see the details about this name in following link: http://www.muhammedinur.com/En/islam/al-haqqu-the-truth.html

 

[6] Ladunni Secrets: The spiritual knowledge related to Divine secrets. The knowledge related to Unseen (Ghayb ilmi). The one who has the knowledge of Ladun can see the hidden and veiled secrets in a state of kashf and gains knowledge to Divine Secrets(asrar-I ilahiyya).  Master and Sultan of this knowledge is Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Was Sallam.

 

[7] Kāfir : Usually translated as “unbeliever” or “disbeliever”, or sometimes “infidel”. The term refers to a person who rejects God or who hides, denies, or “covers” the Truth within one’s essence. The word kāfir is the active participle of the root K-F-R “to cover”. As a pre-Islamic term it described farmers burying seeds in the ground, covering them with soil while planting. Thus, the word kāfir implies the meaning “a person who hides or covers”.

“kafara” ~ the root verb ~ means “he hid (something)” and “he covered (something)” or “He hid (something) by covering it up.” Both “hiding” and “covering up” are indelible significations of all of the words arising on the verbal root.

The Qur’an uses the word kufr to denote a person who covers up or hides realities, one who refuses to accept the dominion and authority of Allāh.

 

[8] Sekr : (Sekir) Being SeR-Hûş. “Ser” means “head”. “Hûş” means “Nice, pleasant,beautiful,happy,strange etc.” SeR-Hûş means mind being drunk or in ecstasy but this is not due to alcohol or drug or any kind of intoxicant thing. This is due to the love of ALLAH. This is due to Muhabbat. Mind is being swallowed by “Hashyat”.

 

[9] Jazba : jaZba (A, jaDba; lit., “attraction”; spelling in T, cezbe): means ecstatic attraction to God, an ecstatic state of consciousness; this may occur during a solitery prayer retreat [T, çille), during a gathering of prayer-chanting [A, dhikr; spelled in T, zikir], or while whirling in the Whirling Prayer Ceremony [samâ`]. If a dervish becomes excessively ecstatic, he may become (briefly or permanently) similar to a crazy or insane person [majZûb; spelled in T, meczub].

 

[10] Hırka: In today’s use , the term means cardigan but it is a special word in Islamic Tasawwuf. Khirqa (Arabic [derived from KHaRaQa, to tear]; lit., “rag,” ” tattered piece of cloth”]; spelling in Turkish, hIrka [pronounced, "hurka," an approximation of the Turkish "undotted i"): a type of `abâ, or dervish's cloak. In the Mevlevi Whirling Prayer Ceremony, it is a long blackcloak with very long sleeves and no collar or buttons. The semazens keep their arms out of the sleeves (except when doing the Islamic ritual prayer [namâz, Salât]). During the Whirling Prayer Ceremony, the Shaykh (here caled pôstneshîn) keeps his arms in the sleeves. In addition to the ceremonial khirqa, Mevlevis wore khirqas for use outdoors, which were always worn together with their sikkas. Traditionally, the patched frock of the dervishes. In early sufism, the khirqa was bestowed upon a disciple by a sufi master, as part of initiation, as recognition of the attainment of a certain spiritual station [maqâm], at the completion of the master’s sufi training, or as proof of being selected as the successor after the master’s death.

While the rich in fancy clothes, becomes the servant to world, the dervishes in rags are the ones who are not deceived by the outlook and do not worship the outlook. They are the sultan in their hirqas.

[11] In Bukhari Shareef, Hadrat Abu Huraira (Radi Allahu ta’ala Anhu) reports

the following Hadith-e-Quddsi:

 

The Most Beloved Prophet (Salla Allahu Ta’ala Alayhi Wa Sallam) has said

that Allah said, “Whoever shows enmity to a friend of mine, I shall be at war

with him.”