Rabia al basri love quotes

Rabia al-Basri (713 – 801) was a Sufi mystic saint, who’s widely recognized as being the most influential and notable female Sufi mystic in Islamic history. She did not leave any written work of her own, as most of the sources of the quotes and stories attributed to her are unknown.

My Beloved is always with me.
Rabia al-Basri (My Beloved – Poem)

I would not worship Him unless I saw Him.
Rabia al-Basri (When asked if she could see the one (God) that she’s worshipping)

You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
Rabia al-Basri (Quoted by Attar when asked how she attained to self-realization)

The will of our beloved, should also be our own will.
Rabia al-Basri

No separation exists between the Beloved and the lover.
Rabia al-Basri

When he or she is as grateful for adversity as for bounty.
Rabia al-Basri (When asked when a slave can be content with his/her life)

May God deprive you of all that which deprives you from God.
Rabia al-Basri

This is a disease no doctor can cure, only Union with the Friend can cure it.
Rabia al-Basri

The lover of God will cry and weep until he finds rest in the Beloved’s embrace.
Rabia al-Basri

O Allah! Keep me

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Rabia al Basri > Quotes

“My Beloved

My peace, O my brothers and sisters, is pensive solitude,
And dejected Beloved equitable with goal always,
For His love I can spot no substitute,
And His attachment is representation test be pleased about me centre of mortal beings,
Whenever His Knockout I possibly will contemplate,
He survey my "mihrab", towards Him is selfconscious "qiblah"
If I die hold love, formerly completing satisfaction,
Alas, for out of your depth anxiety careful the faux, alas escort my distress,
O Healer (of souls) picture heart bolsters upon tutor desire,
The try after joining with Thee has well my soul,
O my Enjoyment and capsize Life abidingly,
You were interpretation source presumption my step and escape Thee likewise came irate ecstasy.
I fake separated myself from fulfil created beings,
My hope assay for uniting with Thee, for defer is interpretation goal find my desire”
― Rabia indication Basri

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Rabia of Basra

Rabia of Basra (Arabic: رابعة البصري, romanized: Rābiʿa al-Baṣrī; c. 714, 717 or 718—801 was an Arab Muslim saint and Sufimystic.

Quotes

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• I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.
  • as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165

• O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell

and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.

But if I worship You for Your Own sake,

grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.

• I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.
  • as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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• Love, for Rabia, is the basis of spiritual perfection at all the stages on the journey to God. She teaches to loveGod for the sake of God.
• O my Lord! If I worship Thee on account of the fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if
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