““One of the greatest mystics of Islam is Mansur al-Hallaj (al-Husayn ibn Mansur Hallaj) (858-9z2- C.E.). With a passion unknown before him, he spoke of the distance that union with God sometimes hurls a human being into, a distance from ideas, conceptions, linguistic formulation, images, and ways of experiencing the deity. Every idea we have of God fails God. Indeed, each idea produces a false familiarity with the divine, a humble haughtiness that lurks behind piety.””