#Rabia of Basra

[thoughtkick]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[resqectable]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[perfectfeelings]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[quotefeeling]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[perfectquote]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[perfeqt]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[majestativa]

Let me hide in You From everything that distracts me from You, From everything that comes in my way When I want to run to You.

— Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure, (2003)

[mqmotivate]

My body is covered with wounds this world made. -Rabia of Basra

[be-a-muslim-1st]

[youtherthyf]

60s psychedlic posters for am assignment. 1st based on a poem by rumi, 2nd on rabia of basra

[septembergold]

"Live with dignity, women, live with dignity, men. Few things will more enhance our beauty as much." Rabia of Basra (c.717-801)

Illustration by Dana Dovitch

[thoughtkick]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[resqectable]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[surqrised]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[quotefeeling]

My body is covered with wounds this world made.

Rabia of Basra, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Music; It Acts Like Love,”

[livingpresence]

I only knew love when I knew love of Thee I sealed up my heart against Thy enemy

I stood long in converse with Thee, who doth see My heart's inner secrets, but Thou I don't see

My love is twin loves, yet the twain are for Thee The first's for Thy love, and the other's for Thee

And as for the first, which is love of Thy love: Remembrance complete, not distracted from Thee

And as for the second: my true love of Thee I see Thou as present in all that I see

All praise to Thy name, and no praises for me For Thine is the glory in all unity

'Araftul-hawā mudh 'araftu hawāk Wa-'aghlaqtu qalbī 'alā man 'ādāk

'Uḥibbuka ḥubbayni, ḥubba l-hawā Wa-ḥubban li-'annaka 'ahlu l-lidhāk

Fa-'amma l-ladhī huwa ḥubbul-hawā Fa-shughlī bitchdhikrika 'an man siwāk

Wa-'amma l-ladhī 'anta 'ahlu l-lahu Fa-lastu 'ara l-kawna ḥattā 'arāk

Fa-la l-ḥamdu fī dhā wa-lā dhāka lī Wa-lākin laka l-ḥamdu fī dhā wa-dhāk

— Poem by Rabi'a al-Basri, translated by Dr. Tim Winter for Sami Yusuf's composition "I Only Knew Love"