As the Sufi mystic al-Hujwiri notes, there is a crucial ‘difference between one who is burned by His Majesty in the fire of love, and one who is illuminated by this Beauty in the light of contemplation.’
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The path exemplified by the ascetic al-Hallaj, leads to emptiness pure and simple … ‘the cut between creature and Creator’ is preserved all the way through the redemptive effort, so as to be all the more entirely overcome at its end.
– Peter Hallward, Out of this World, p. 84
