If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, Once Rabia fasted for a whole week, neither eating nor sleeping. She told him that she was willing to leave the house to carry on her worship in solitude. If you will not agree to us then both of us will commit suicide. Then Hasan of Basra went to visit her. Rabia placed her load on its back, and continued on her way. While everyone was walking, they noticed a well on the way. Do you desire for us to get married? Rising up he returned to his bedroom and sat pondering till dawn. O God, my whole occupation and all my desire in this world of all worldly things, is to remember Thee, and in the world to come, of all things of the world to come, is to meet Thee. He increased her age and brought her up as his daughter. Then I tore the shirt in the place where I had stitched it, and. Allah is up in the sky. A bitch stood next to it thirsty. Even worse than death is the 'old age', which does not befall in ‘Satlok’. Little is known of her life apart from her piety, popularity with men and women followers of the Sufi path, and her refusal to marry. The focus of the write-up will be on the following: Let us proceed and learn what were the Previous Births of Rabia Basri? She was destined to get the life form of a bird or an animal. Why then should they not flee from you? Kabir Saheb told Sheikh Taki that first, you try to revive the corpse of your daughter. Addressing all the people present there, Kamali also narrated the account of her earlier human births. ", Rabia's father got up and went straight to the Amir with tears of joy rolling down his cheeks. I will go and fetch a jug, and break my fast, she said. Many stories of her life were later told by Farid ad-Din Attar. Hasan, Rabia replied, when you are showing off your spiritual goods in this worldly market, it should be things that your fellow-men are incapable of displaying. Care for Me and worldly blessings can never be associated together, in a single heart. He had buried me in the grave, our account is neutralized’. The Devil himself has not the boldness to slink round her. desires that whenever I have prayed during the last thirty years, I have assumed it to be my last prayer. Why have you tied the bandage? Hasan, who had not attained that station, said nothing. All of them seem tiny in front of Rabia. ‘On account of this saintly woman of the, age, he replied. And liberated from all superfluous excess. Do you not know who has willed that I should suffer? El Sakkakini suggests that it would have been from Sufi circles in Basra that Rabia received instruction; It is also likely that Rabia, in her first encounter with Sufi circles at an early age, participated in playing the nay, at type of reed pipe or flute. I said, ‘Sir, why are you weeping? This suggests that she was recognized as a teacher in her own right. This article abides by terms of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 License (CC-by-sa), which may be used and disseminated with proper attribution. Today, Almighty God Kabir has again come on earth and is blessing souls in the form of great saint Jagatguru Tatvadarshi Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj.