Rabia al-Basri Quote: May God deprive you of all that which...

May God deprive you of all that which deprives you from God.

Source: When asked when a slave can be content with his/her life

Select Quotes by Rabia al-Basri

The lover of God will cry and weep until he finds rest in the Beloved’s embrace.

In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.

Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.

Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
illumined nothing,

where ecstasy gets poured into itself
and becomes
lost,

where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or
body?

In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church

that dissolve, that
dissolve in

God.

— Rabia al-Basri

O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell,
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.

— Rabia al-Basri

Source: 8th century