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Rabia al Adawiya al Basri was a Muslim saint who spent her whole life
in devotion to God. She was born over a thousand years ago,
in the city of Basra, in Iraq. She composed many poems about love for God in her lifetime.

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account. To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold All of them worship out of fear of the fire. And consider deliverance abundant good fortune - Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach. To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers. Of gardens or fire I have no opinion. I seek no exchange for my dearest love.

True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

Where a part of you goes
The rest of you will follow---given time.
You call yourself a teacher:
Therefore learn.

I love God: I have no time left
In which to hate the devil.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door
Begging for someone to open it?

O God, take away the words of the devil
That mix with my prayer--
If not, then take my prayer as it is, devil and all.

DIE BEFORE YOU DIE

Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts
of our body is
death.
So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss,
I died a thousand times before I died.
“Die before you die,” said the Prophet
Muhammad.
Have wings that feared ever
touched the Sun?
I was born when all I once
feared – I could
love.

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