Srinagar, Dec. 1 -- In the annals of Islamic mysticism, few figures stand as luminously paradoxical as Mansur al-Hallaj, the Persian Sufi whose ecstatic cry "Ana al-Haqq"-"I am the Truth"-echoed across centuries, unsettling jurists, inspiring poets, and bewildering common folk. His life was a tapestry woven of devotion, paradox, and peril, culminating in a martyrdom that transformed him into a symbol of love's ultimate surrender before the Divine. Hallaj's spiritual journey reminds us that the heart opens to mysteries only when the mind ceases its endless arguments. Rationality, with its insistence on proof, falters before the ineffable. The soul, restrained from bodily indulgence, ascends toward divine enigmas. Love alone awakens the see...