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Rabia Al Basri Poems
- My Greatest Need Is You Your hope in my heart is the rarest ...
- My Beloved My peace, O my brothers and sisters, is my ...
- In My Soul In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a ...
- Love I have loved Thee with two loves - a selfish love and ...
- Die Before You Die Ironic, but one of the most intimate ...
- Reality In love, nothing exists between heart and ...
- If I Adore You If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in...
Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rabiʿah al-Basri (Arabic: رابعة البصري) was a female Muslim saint and Sufi mystic.
Not much is known about Rabia al Basri, except that she lived in Basra in Iraq, in the second half of the 8th century AD. She was born into poverty. But many spiritual stories are associated with her and what we can glean about her is reality merged with legend. These traditions come from Farid ud din Attar a later sufi saint and poet, who used earlier sources. Rabia herself though has not left any written works.
After her father's death, there was a famine in Basra, and during that she was parted from her ... more »
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My Greatest Need Is You
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 worshippers:
This is the substance of my complaint.
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The poetry of Rabiʿah al-Basri is devoted to understanding the meaning and purpose of life and how to attain the ultimate salvation through worship of the God Almighty.