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 God, I can’t live in this world Without remembering You.
RABIA BASRIO Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court
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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.
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If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
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The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.
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I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.
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O 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.
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O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court
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Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
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Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.
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O 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.
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
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I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.
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You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
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He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?
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