I am the Real.
أنا الحق
Ene'l-Hak.
Mansur al-Hallaj, Kitab al-Tawasin, ed. Louis Massignon, Paris 1913; Attar, Tadhkirat al-Awliya, chapter on "Hallaj"; al-Ghazali, Mishkat al-Anwar.
Two words.
The two most loaded words in the history of Sufism.
Had the self said this,
it would have been a claim.
According to tradition, the self had long gone silent.
What remained was speaking.
Hallaj was executed in Baghdad in 922.
Among the charges were these words.
Scholars find the verdict
mainly political.
Attar tells that on his way to the gallows
he said the same words.