Rabia al-Basri Quote: O Allah! I am forlorn, without mother and...

O Allah! I am forlorn, without mother and father. Now my hand too is broken. But I do not mind these things if Thou be pleased with me. But make it manifest to me that you are pleased with me.

— Rabia al-Basri

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Select Quotes by Rabia al-Basri

O Allah! Keep me engrossed in You and do not allow the people of the world to divert me.

— Rabia al-Basri

Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts
of our body is
death.

So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss,
I died a thousand times before I died.

“Die before you die,” said the Prophet
Muhammad.

Have wings that feared ever
touched the Sun?

I was born when all I once
feared – I could
love.

— Rabia al-Basri