Buhlul

Buhlūl al-madschnūn ("Buhlul the crazy"; also Abū-Wuhaib Buhlūl Ibn-'Amr al-mağnūn ; al-kūfi Magnun al-Buhlul ; * around 749 in Kufa ; † 805 ibid) was a Sufi ( Islamic mystic ), Musician , beggar and city fool .

Life

Buhlul ( Arabic بُهلُول, "The possessed") grew up in Kufa. He inherited 600 dirhams from his father . He squandered the inheritance without further ado. He traveled to Basra , al-Hīra and Tarsus . The audience that wanted to hear the hunchbacked Buhlul sing had to pay a dirham, and to be silent they had to pay two groschen. If stones were thrown at Buhlul, he passed smaller stones, otherwise he would feel prevented from praying. Buhlul smeared his back with feces to ward off people who beat him. Often he lounged in the cemeteryvon Kufa and justified this with the fact that he would rather sit with people who did not hit him. He often hung a leg in a tomb to warm himself by the hellfire of the dead sinner. Even in winter he would walk barefoot through puddles, warming himself with distant candles.

Buhlul got by as a mouth robber . His acquaintances included Ulaijan and Sa`id , but also al-Junaid and Abū Bakr al-Shiblī , both of whom were born after his death. He refused a request to draw up a list of all crazy people, as the list of sensible people was shorter.

When Abu Hanifa surprised him with the fact that the invisible was not there, Buhlul threw a brick on his forehead to prove that pain could be there but not visible.

He explained crowds of people as the horizontal utilization of the earth's disk , which would tip over if everyone stood on one side at the same time

Starved, he broke into the neighbour's house at night, remorse gripped him, he woke the whole house and wanted the Sharia to decide on the incident. The neighbor then paid him an alms .

Buhlul sat on the throne of the caliphs and was punished by blows. The caliph crowned the city fool king of the pigs and Buhlul then regarded the great vizier as his subject.

When Caliph Harun wanted to cancel Buhlul's debts, Buhlul fended off this, since the Caliph himself had nothing and could only incur new debts himself.

At the city gate of Basra he lay down next to a sleeping man and woke up next to a dead man. He was charged, taken to the gallows and the murderer, for whom Buhlul successfully interceded, turned himself in the audience.

His gravestone has stood in Baghdad since 1108.

Buhlul's Sufi wisdom was narrated by Gahiz , Ibn abi-d-Dunja , Ahmad ibm Luqman and Abu Ali Sahl ibm Ali from Baghdad . Abul Kasim al Hasan ibm Habib an Naisaburi collected the wisdom .

Rūmī called the village fool the buhlul of the village .

literature

• Ulrich Marzolph: The wise fool Buhlul (treatises for the knowledge of the Orient) . Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 978-3-515-03908-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Islamic Encyclopedia: Buhlul (D.-190H) بُهلُول .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ulrich Holbein: Narratorium. 255 images of life. Ammann Verlag , Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-250-10523-7 . Pp. 184-188.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ulrich Holbein: Holy fools. 22 images of life. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN, p. 54 f.