Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You --
O Allah, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You--
How can I endure the next world
Without seeing Your face?
I am a stranger in Your country
And lonely among Your worshipers:
This is the substance of my complaint.
- Rabi'a Basri
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Everything I hear or read about Rabia Basri makes me love her more.
Do you know the story about the candle and the bucket of water? Rabia Basri was holding a bucket in one hand and a candle in the other. Someone asked her why. She said, "I am going to extinguish the fire of Hell and set fire to Heaven, so that people will seek Allah for Himself alone."
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