Birth: 713 Death: 801
Your prayers are your light; Your devotion is your strength; Sleep is the enemy of both. Your life is the only opportunity that life can give yo….
If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent..
The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend..
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 y….
I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages..
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 ….
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other bu….
Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening..
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….
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account T….
How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?.
It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember t….
A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was.….
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 it….
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests, Of monsters in the ocean. You are the Just who knows ….
I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept - And even if You drive me from….
True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell..
I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil..
May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him..
I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah.
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers..