Find Life In Letting Go
Kill me, my faithful friends, for in my being killed is my life.
Al-Hallaj was a Persian Sufi mystic executed in Baghdad in 922 CE after years of imprisonment for declaring 'I am the Truth,' words the religious authorities of his day called blasphemy. This verse comes from his poetry, composed as he faced his own death, and it expresses complete trust that his execution was not an ending but a passage into union with the Divine. Rather than resisting his fate, he asked his friends to accept it, treating his surrender as the deepest proof of his love and faith. His words still speak to anyone learning that surrender is not defeat, that it can be the truest form of trust in something larger than the self.
Reflection
Al-Hallaj trusted a plan far bigger than his own understanding. What is one thing today I can hand over to trust?