#rabia al-basri

[wizdomly]

"My Beloved is always with me"

— Rabia al-Basri // photo: unknown (via @wizdomly)

{ My Beloved poem by Rabia al-Basri }

My peace, O my brothers and sisters, is my solitude,

And my Beloved is with me always,

For His love I can find no substitute,

And His love is the test for me among mortal beings,

Whenever His Beauty I may contemplate,

He is my "mihrab", towards Him is my "qiblah"

If I die of love, before completing satisfaction,

Alas, for my anxiety in the world, alas for my distress,

O Healer (of souls) the heart feeds upon its desire,

The striving after union with Thee has healed my soul,

O my Joy and my Life abidingly,

You were the source of my life and from Thee also came my ecstasy.

I have separated myself from all created beings,

My hope is for union with Thee, for that is the goal of my desire

[begottaum]

Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness.

My Beloved is alone with me there, always.

I have found nothing in all the worlds

That could match His love,

This love that harrows the sands of my desert.

If I come to die of desire

And my Beloved is still not satisfied,

I would live in eternal despair.

To abandon all that He has fashioned

And hold in the palm of my hand

Certain proof that He loves me---

That is the name and the goal of my search

~ Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness by Rabia al-Basri (Rabia al- Adawiyya)

English version by Andrew Harvey

Original Language Persian/Farsi

[subhashdagar123]

[be-a-muslim-1st]

Rabia al Basra was one of the greatest female Sufi saints.Besides being pious she was also very beautiful and of good character so she had many suitors- including the wealthy governor of Baghdad and the Sufi saint Hassan al Basri.

She always refused their hand in marriage. When asked why she responded:

"Whenever I love anything other than Him(her Lord) he sends me a test in that very area".

In telling us this, she is not simply recounting her own experience.She is instructing us on the nature of the "dunya" (the world)

We all experiencing it...

Love towards other than Him is gonna be tested.

[qalbofnight]

Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; 714/717/718 — 801 CE)[1] was an Arab Muslim saint and Sufi mystic and carried her life out as an influential religious figure.[2] She is known in some parts of the world as Hazrat Rabia Basri, Rabia Al Basri or simply Rabia Basri.[3] She set an example respected by Muslims throughout history and is a small piece in the complicated founding of Islam.

She was the one who first set forth the doctrine of Divine Love known as Ishq-e-Haqeeqi[12] and is widely considered being the most important of the early renunciant, one mode of piety that would eventually become labeled as Sufism

REALITY

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes, knows; the one who explains, lies. How can you describe the true form of Something In whose presence you are blotted out? And in whose being you still exist? And who lives as a sign for your journey?

[hunnynectarine]

my favourite quotes:

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way that I understand.” - Richard Siken // Wishbone

“That’s the way light is. It shines on everything, not just the things we want to see.” - Lindsay C Gibson // Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

“If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell! If I adore you out of desire for Paradise, lock me out of Paradise. But if I adore you for Yourself alone, do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.” - Rabia al Basri

[maryamgantois-blog]

“I carry a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other; With these things I am gonna to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So the voyagers to God can rip the veils and see the real goal.”

Rabia al Basri

#rabiaalbasri #rabiaaladawiyya #iraqi #middleeasternpoetry #religion

[holyalienfriendbagel]

#कबीरभगवान_के_राजा_बने_शिष्य

To name a few Kabir Saheb met Tamerlane (Timur), Butcher Sadhna, Sheikh Farid, Sikander Lodhi, Mansur-Al-Hallaj, Ibrahim Ibn Adham, Rabia Basri, Bijli Khan Pathan, the King of Maghar, Uttar Pradesh etc.

Kabir Is Supreme God

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#कबीरभगवान_के_राजा_बने_शिष्य

To name a few Kabir Saheb met Tamerlane (Timur), Butcher Sadhna, Sheikh Farid, Sikander Lodhi, Mansur-Al-Hallaj, Ibrahim Ibn Adham, Rabia Basri, Bijli Khan Pathan, the King of Maghar, Uttar Pradesh etc.

Kabir Is Supreme God

[niwas123]

#इस्लाम_की_अनसुलझी_पहेली

Story of Rabia Al Basri and description of later lives...

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Baakhabar Sant Rampal Ji

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[sushildas1989]

#इस्लाम_की_अनसुलझी_पहेली

Story of Rabia Al Basri and description of later lives...

SUBSCRIBE

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Baakhabar Sant Rampal Ji

[gwyllmllwydd]

Playing Catch Up – The Hare's Tale The Links Poesy – Rabia al Basri The Fairy Wife From Peter: Ambient Storms https://gwyllm.com/2023/10/03/playing-catch-up/

[dinaive]

"Once upon a time," said the maidens, "part of this spice and the fragrance of it clung to her body -- but then she shied away."

Dream Fable - Rabia Al Basri

اللهم صل على محمد

[hunnynectarine]

If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell!

If I adore You out of desire for Paradise, lock me out of Paradise.

But if I adore you for Yourself alone,

Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.

Rabia al Basri

[paayaliya]

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.

Speech is born out of longing,

True description from the real taste.

The one who tastes, knows;

the one who explains, lies.

How can you describe the true form of Something

In whose presence you are blotted out?

And in whose being you still exist?

And who lives as a sign for your journey?

- Reality, Rabia al-Basri