Rabia Basri, a Sufi mystic lived in the eighth century (717-801) IN MY SOUL In Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist. Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is where ecstasy gets poured into itself where the wing is fully alive In God. ----------------------------------------- "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." ------------------------------------------ DIE BEFORE YOU DIE Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss, "Die before you die," said the Prophet Muhammad. Have wings that feared ever I was born when all I once --------------------------------------------------------------
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.
illumined nothing,
and becomes
lost,
but has no mind or
body?
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church
that dissolve, that
dissolve in
She prayed:
of our body is
death.
I died a thousand times before I died.
touched the Sun?
feared – I could
love.
Friday, December 4, 2009
[mukto-mona] From: Rabia Basri "...If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell...
For herself, she held to a higher ideal, worshipping God neither from fear of Hell nor from hope of Paradise, for she saw such self-interest as unworthy of God's servants; emotions like fear and hope were like veils -- i.e. hindrances to the vision of God Himself.
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