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Rabia Al Basri Poems
- Reality In love, nothing exists between heart and ...
- My Beloved My peace, O my brothers and sisters, is my ...
- My Greatest Need Is You Your hope in my heart is the rarest ...
- Dream Fable I saw myself in a wide green garden, more ...
- My God And My Lord Eyes are at rest, the stars are ...
- With My Beloved With my Beloved I alone have been, When ...
- Love I have loved Thee with two loves - a selfish love and ...
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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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?
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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.