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Anā al-Ḥaqq

“I am the Truth”: the ecstatic saying of al-Ḥallāj, executed in Baghdad in 922.

Also: Ana al-Haqq

Sufism and Islamic thought

Anā al-Ḥaqq, “I am the Real”, al-Ḥaqq being a name of God, is the saying for which al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj became the great martyr of Sufism. Later Sufis interpreted it as God speaking in a self annihilated in him, and Rūmī and ʿAṭṭār praised him.