Rabe’a al-Adawiya - Part 8-

LEARN TO LOVE YOUR LORD FROM THIS WOMEN SUFI SAINT Rabe’a al-Adawiya

A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabe’a on her sickbed. Sitting beside her pillow, he reviled the world.

“You love the world very dearly,” Rabe’a commented.

“If you did not love the world, you would not make
mention of it so much. It is always the purchaser who
disparages the wares If you were done with the world,
you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it
is, you keep mentioning it because as the proverb says,
whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently.”

When the time came that Rabe’a should die, those
attending her deathbed left the room and closed the
door.

Then a voice was heard saying,

"O soul at peace,return unto thy Lord, well-pleased!"


A time passed and no sound came from the room, so they opened the door and found that she had given up the ghost

After her death she was seen in a dream.

She was asked “How did you fare with Monkar and Nakir?” She replied

“Those youths came to me and said, ‘Who is thy
Lord?’

I answered,

‘Return and say to God, with so many thousand thousand creatures Thou didst not forget one feeble old woman. I, who have only Thee in the whole world, I shall never, forget Thee, that Thou shouldst sent one to ask me, Who is thy, God?’”

End