A SUFI MYSTICAL LOVE-STORY: AL-HALLAJ AND IBLIS (I)
A SUFI MYSTICAL LOVE-STORY: AL-HALLAJ AND IBLIS (I)

Summary/Abstract: In Husayn Mansur Al-Hallaj’s (c. 858 – 922 A. D.; c. 244 – 309 A. H.) view, by spectacular revalorization, Iblis’s saga moves relatively further from the reverberations of damnation, to load itself with complex Sufi significances. Recognizing himself in the image of the brightest angel, cast away from the celestial hierarchy, the mystic equivocally hindered by judiciary and thanatological imperatives identifies himself seductively, impenitently, with the lonely angel that, although blamable, needs – more than anyone else – the protection of the One and Only God, the steady protection of His Presence. The experience of the rebellion-fall is thus assumed as a vocation of martyrdom.

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