Tavasin: Birliğin Birliği ve Benliğin Yok Oluşu

Ḥusayn b. Manṣúr (al-Ḥalláj) says in this sense: "Thy will be done, O my Lord and Master! Thy will be done, O my purpose and meaning! O essence of my being, O goal of my desire, O my speech and my hints and my gestures! O all of my all, O my hearing and my sight, O my whole and my element and my particles!" Therefore, to one whose qualities are only borrowed from God, it is a disgrace to affirm his own existence, and an act of dualism to pay any heed to the phenomenal universe; and all created objects are despicable to his soaring thought. Some have been led by their dialectical subtlety and their admiration of phraseology to speak of "the union of union" (jam‘ al-jam‘). This is a good expression as phrases go, but if you consider the meaning, it is better not to predicate union of union, because the term "union" cannot properly be applied except to separation. Before union can be united it must first have been separated, whereas the fact is that union does not change its state. The expression, therefore, is liable to be misunderstood, because one who is "united" does not look forth from himself to what is above or to what is below him. Do you not perceive that when the two worlds were displayed to the Apostle on the night of the Ascension he paid no heed to anything? He was in "union," and one who is "united" does not behold "separation."