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Hussain bin Mansoor [sic] Al-Hallaj was condemned to hang by the neck for shouting in ecstasy Anā al-Ḥaqq, Anā al-Ḥaqq (I am the Truth, I am the Truth). The orthodox understood this to mean that he was claiming to be God himself, whereas he had proclaimed, in his sublime spiritual ecstasy, simply a total annihilation of himself.
Dama Dam Mast Qalandar (transl. Every Breath for the Ecstasy of Qalandar) [1] is a spiritual Sufi qawwali written in the honour of the most revered Sufi saint of Sindh, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177–1274) of Sehwan Sharif.
Religious ecstasy is a type of altered state of consciousness characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and reportedly expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness, frequently accompanied by visions and emotional (and sometimes physical) euphoria.
Wajd or wajad is a Sufi term for the religious ecstasy induced by dhikr (the remembrance of God) or by means of sama, listening to the measured recitation, signing or chanting of spiritual verses or poetry. [1]
Linguistically, manhwa, manga (漫画) and manhua (漫画) all mean 'comics' in Korean, Japanese and Chinese respectively. Manga comes from the Japanese word 漫画, [5] (katakana: マンガ; hiragana: まんが) which is composed of two kanji 漫 (man) meaning 'whimsical or impromptu' and 画 (ga) meaning 'pictures'.
A ḥāl [1] (Arabic: حَال, meaning "state" or "condition", sometimes anglicized as haal; plural أَحْوَال aḥwāl, sometimes anglicized as ahwaal) is a special-purpose, temporary state of consciousness, generally understood to be the product of a Sufi's spiritual practices while on his way toward God.
The phrase Khoda Hafez (meaning May God be your Guardian) is a parting phrase commonly used in across the Greater Iran region, in languages including Persian, Pashto, Azeri, and Kurdish. Furthermore, the term is also employed as a parting phrase in many languages across the Indian subcontinent including Urdu , Punjabi , Deccani , Sindhi ...
Ouranos is the primordial god of the sky. He is presented as a giant, muscular sky-blue man, who has six eyes. Dionysus is an infant god, born out of the leg of his father Zeus. He was conceived in Zeus' long-running affair with the mortal woman Semele. Zeus has Asclepius stitch an unborn Dionysus into his leg after Semele's death, and because ...