Ana'l-Haqq
"I am the Truth/the Real" — the ecstatic utterance of the martyr-mystic Mansur al-Hallaj.
Literally: "I am the Truth / I am God"
The famous ecstatic utterance of the martyr-mystic Mansur al-Hallaj, taken by critics as a blasphemous claim to divinity and by Sufis as the speech of a self utterly absorbed in God. Iqbal reads it strikingly in his own key: not as the dissolution of the self into God but as the supreme affirmation of a self so intensified and God-conscious that it can speak with such audacity — evidence, for him, of khudi at its peak rather than its abolition.
Ana'l-Haqq in Iqbal’s couplets
Razm-e-haq-o-baatil ho to faulad hai momin
Allah ke sheron ko aati nahin rubaahi
Haqq
The Real, the Truth; a name of God as the ultimate Reality, and truth itself.
Mansur
Mansur al-Hallaj, the martyr-mystic executed for crying 'Ana-al-Haqq,' emblem of love's fatal daring.
Fana
Annihilation, passing away; the mystic's extinction of the self in the Beloved, the goal of the Sufi path.
Hallaj
Mansur al-Hallaj, the martyr-mystic of 'Ana al-Haqq' hanged for his ecstatic claim of union with God; emblem of love that pays with life for truth.
Khudi
Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.