Seyyed Hossein Nasr: "Al-Hallaj memiliki takdir khusus. Dia datang pad...

"Al-Hallaj memiliki takdir khusus. Dia datang pada saat keduniawian, kemewahan, membanjiri dunia Islam. Fungsinya adalah bertindak sebagai semacam antitesis terhadap ini, dan ia membayarnya dengan nyawanya, dan ia sangat senang melakukannya. Dia tersenyum ketika dia pergi ke algojo. Itu dilakukan karena mengguncang hati nurani umat Islam saat itu. Tetapi mayoritas, mayoritas, luas, mayoritas sufi, mereka belum memenuhi takdir al-Hallaj. Mereka telah berbicara tentang mencapai "Kebenaran" dan tidak ada yang berbahaya tentang hal itu."

--- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.