Rabia al-Basri Quote: When he or she is as grateful for...

When he or she is as grateful for adversity as for bounty.

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One day, Rabia was seen running, carrying fire in one hand and water in the other. They asked her the meaning of her action and where she was going. She replied, I am going to light a fire in Paradise and pour water on Hell, so that both veils hindrances to the true vision of God completely disappear.”

— Rabia al-Basri

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

— Rabia al-Basri

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

O my Lord, Thous knowest that the desire of my heart is to obey Thee, and that the light of my eye is in the service of Thy court. If the matter rested with me, I should not cease for one hour from Thy service, but Thou hast made me subject to a creature

— Rabia al-Basri

Source: Quoted byFarid al-Din Attar