I do not cease swimming in the seas of love,
rising with the wave, then descending;
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I am He whom I love,
and He whom I love is I:
We are two spirits
dwelling in one body.
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Kill me, my faithful friends,
For in my being killed is my life.
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" For your sake, I hurry over land and water:
For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,
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Thy Spirit is mingled in my spirit
even as wine is mingled with pure water.
When anything touches Thee,
it touches me.
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Mansur al-Hallaj ,( full name Abū al-Mughīth Husayn Mansūr al-Hallāj) (c. 858 – March 26, 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH-309 AH) was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and pious teacher of Sufism most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity, his poetry and for his execution for heresy at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation. His best known written work is the Kitab al Tawasin, Arabic, which includes two brief chapters devoted to a dialogue of Satan (Iblis) and God, where Satan refuses to bow to Adam, although God asks him to do so. His refusal is due to a misconceived idea of God's uniqueness and because of his refusal to abandon himself to God in love. Hallaj criticizes the staleness of his adoration (Mason, 51-3).)
I Do Not Cease Swimming
I do not cease swimming in the seas of love,
rising with the wave, then descending;
now the wave sustains me, and then I sink beneath it;
love bears me away where there is no longer any shore.