El cuerpo desposeído, la palabra poseída: los ojos cosidos, la visión escandalosa del Amado

Abstract

Heralds of excessive love: Mayˆnûn/ Aragon, Shiblî/Simone Weil, Hallâyˆ/Zambrano. In the literature of Aragon, Cioran, Rilke, S. Weil and M. Zambrano, Sufism was a reference point for speaking of self- annihilation, of symbolic death. The Zambranian «desnacer» is not far removed from the Weilian «décréation» (entwerden), the emptying out of oneself or the «coming out of oneself», as the expression of radical detachment (death to the world, the Sufi fanâ’), the complete annihilation of the ego (ár. fanâ’ bi kullî) and absolute subsistence with the Beloved (ár. baqâ-yi mutlaq). The poet Aragon, influenced, like Zambrano, by Sufism (Hallâyˆ, in both, via Massignon), speaks of «dévouement absolu» and of «anéantissement de toi dans le vouloir (de) Dieu» (= in the Dîwân of ‘Attâr: self-dissolution, per. az jwud fanâ’ shudan, «die to oneself [the ego]», fanâ’-i mahz, «total or absolute nothingness»). Dispossession of the body and empty eyes: Hâfiz «sews together his eyes» to con- template inside himself the face of the Beloved which has become his sanctuary; and at the same time, the Zulayjâ of Yˆâmî (Yûsuf u Zulayjâ) pursues the state of emptiness (total self abandonment in love: loss of the self, per. bî-jwudî), which can only be filled by the Beloved; she tears out her eyes in order to consummate the pure inner vision.