Shath

A shath (Arabic: شطح šaṭḥ, plural: šaṭaḥāt or šaṭḥiyyāt),[1] in the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism, is an ecstatic utterance which may be outrageous in character.

The word is derived from the root š-ṭ-ḥ, which carries the sense of overflowing or outpouring caused by agitation.

[1] Famous shathiyat include “Glory be to me, how great is my majesty” by Bayazid Bastami and “I am the Truth” by Mansur Al-Hallaj.

At other times they regarded them as authentic expressions of spiritual states, even profoundest experience of divine realities, which should not be manifested to the unworthy.

[5] Because of their opposition to religious norms, these ecstatic utterances play an important role in the conception of Islamic Antinomianism.