Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that bright instant, wings aflame, Reduced to fragments of his name, The moth-ash shows his body\'s form Where no mark will distinguish him.
Rumi wrote three centuries later on Al-Hallaj\'s words, \'I am God, \': "People imagine that it is a presumptive claim, whereas I find it is really a presumptive claim to say \'I am the slave of God\'; for, \'I am God\' i.
Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that bright instant, wings aflame, Reduced to fragments of his name, The moth-ash shows his body\'s form Where no mark will distinguish him
