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Year 322 AH. And Shamghan is a village in the vicinity of Wasit; it is noted here that he used the word "Bab" with the intention of meaning the entrance to the Mahdi, which is the term that the Babis later used. In general, Al-Hallaj was killed by the judgment of the jurists. What is observed in this era and the one before it is a severe difference between the jurists and the Sufis. The Sufis accuse the jurists of being superficial, following forms, and adhering to rituals performed by the limbs without regard to their spirit. Therefore, they elaborate on the manner of ablution, the manner of prayer, and so on. The jurists accuse the Sufis of overstepping in matters of religion, exaggerating in meanings and ecstatic utterances, and so on, and phrases that contradict religion were uttered by them. Perhaps the first to reconcile the jurists and the Sufis was Al-Qushayri in his treatise, then Al-Ghazali, because he was a great jurist and a great Sufi simultaneously. After that, they named jurisprudence "Sharia" and Sufism "Haqiqa" (truth), and praised those who combined Sharia and Haqiqa, and criticized those who clung to Sharia without Haqiqa or to Haqiqa without Sharia. In general, Al-Hallaj was an effect of the Qarmatians, and economists consider the Qarmatian movement a major economic movement.

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