by Fahad Faruqui
Columnist Fahad
Faruqui describes life and death of Sufi Mansur Hallaj as: For some, Mansur
al-Hallaj was a magician, a heretic and a lunatic, who publicly claimed to be
one with the One and deserved to be executed for heresy. But to his
sympathizers he was a Sufi saint, who was martyred almost 1,100 years ago, on
March 26, 922, allegedly for his ecstatic utterance.
The legends
surrounding Hallaj are many. Despite the 2,000 pages written by Louis
Massignon, we still don't know much about him and there's no way to validate
the claim that he ever uttered the words "ana'l-haqq" (I am the
Truth), which many believe was the cause of his arrest, followed by nine-year
long trial, leading to his public execution.
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Earth's status as the center of universe. Before the Copernican Revolution, the
Earth's status as the center of the universe was considered fundamental to
everything from explanation of why the clouds move to why water pumps work.
Faced with the new idea that it is in fact the Earth that revolves around the
Sun, all fields of science had to gradually adapt to this new idea. 
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