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Ana'l-Haqq

अनल-हक़

said a-nal-haqq

also written: Anal Haq

Meaning

"I am the Truth/the Real" — the ecstatic utterance of the martyr-mystic Mansur al-Hallaj.

Literally: I am the Truth

How Iqbal uses it

Ana'l-Haqq, Hallaj's cry of identity with the Real, fascinated Iqbal, who read it not as the self dissolving into God but as the self affirming its highest reality. He recast Hallaj's ecstasy in the key of an emboldened, not annihilated, khudi.

See it in the verse

Ana'l-Haqq in Iqbal’s couplets

Aaeen-e-jawan-mardan haq-goi-o-be-baaki
Allah ke sheron ko aati nahin rubaahi

The code of the brave is to speak the truth and to be fearless — the lions of God do not know the ways of the fox.

Courage · Justice · Selfhood

Related words

ARABIC

Haqq

Truth, reality, the Real; one of the Names of God; also a right or due.

ARABIC

Mansoor

Mansur al-Hallaj, the Sufi martyr executed for crying ana'l-Haqq, I am the Truth.

ARABIC

Fana

Annihilation, the Sufi passing-away of the self into God.

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