Rabia Al Adawiyya

One day Rabia Al Adawiyya had gone to the mountains, and hordes of wild beasts, goats and gazelles thronged about her. When Hasan al-Basri suddenly appeared on the scene, they all scattered in fright. Inwardly perturbed by this event, Hasan al-Basri asked...

Once a leading scholar of Basra visited Rabia AlAdawiyya while she was ill.ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabia told him:"You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not...

Once Hassan al basri went to Rabia and said: "In love's way so much you endured and all of this strength has come from you, so to me where this ability come from,do, this inner light you have...not by reading nor learnt from another, nor was copying."...