There were three hundred prisoners in the jail in which Mansur was imprisoned. He asked them if they wanted to be released. They replied in the affirmative, hence Mansur made a sign and their fetters fell down laying open the gates of the cells and jail wide open.
When Mansur was imprisoned and people came to visit him in the jail cell on the first night, they could not find him in his room, He had physically disappeared. On the second night of their visit they found him at the spot but the jail had disappeared. On the third night they met him seated in his cell. They questioned him with regards to the previous two nights. He explained to them, on the first night I was in the presence of my Lord, on the second night the Lord had come here to visit me, and now I have been brought here to verify the words of the scriptures. i.e. A man when in control of his senses should never utter, “I am the Truth”, for so long as he is being (man) he can never be God. a
When Mansur was being killed, first his hands were chopped off. Then the executioner cut off his feet. In this state Mansur rubbed his face with the bloody stumps of his hands and remarked, ‘Today I feel happy as the martyrs powder is rubbed on my face’. Then he made an indication that he was in prayers. Following this his eyes were removed from his face, his tongue cut out of his mouth, then his head severed from his body. Before his head and tongue had been removed Mansur had prayed, “Oh Lord I am grateful to thee that you have kept me unperturbed and steadfast to the end. I only wish that you had bestowed this wealth on my assembled persecutors also”. Hearing these words the people began pelting him with stones. He uttered his last words; “The friendship of the One singles you out and makes you extraordinary.” At the moment when his head was severed from his body Mansur let out a burst of laughter and his soul passed to the Almighty. The severed limbs of the martyr then began to cry, “I am the Truth”. The Caliph ordered the
limbs to be collected together and burnt. When this was done the ashes began to produce the same sound ‘I am the Truth’ (Anal Haq). The ashes were then thrown into the River Dajla where they formed the words that read ‘
“I am the Truth”. The water of the river foamed and swelled to a great height. Anticipating that this was to occur Mansur had already told his servant to take his (Mansur’s) garments and spread them on the surface of the water, in order to appease the wrath of the river and save Baghdad from being flooded. The servant did as he had been commanded and the water subsided.
(Tadhkeratul Auliya)
Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi 