How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.
RABIA BASRIHow many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.
RABIA BASRIIf I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
RABIA BASRIThe real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.
RABIA BASRIYour prayers are your light; Your devotion is your strength; Sleep is the enemy of both. Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you. If you ignore it, if you waste it, You will only turn to dust.
RABIA BASRII love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.
RABIA BASRISince no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
RABIA BASRIO Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.
RABIA BASRIHow long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?
RABIA BASRII swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept – And even if You drive me from your door, I swear again that we will never be separated – Because You are alive in my heart
RABIA BASRIO God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
RABIA BASRITrue devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
RABIA BASRII seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
RABIA BASRIO my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
RABIA BASRIYour 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 God, I can’t live in this world Without remembering You.
RABIA BASRIGreat doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
RABIA BASRIO Lord, Once I wanted You so much I didn’t even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in.
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