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Rábia ou Rabia Aladauia Alcaicia foi uma santa muçulmana e mística sufi. Ela é conhecida em algumas partes do mundo como Hadrate Bibi Rabia de Baçorá ou simplesmente ou Rabia de Baçorá. Wikipedia  

✵ ?? – 801
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Rabia of Basri: Frases em inglês

“O God! 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.”

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as quoted in Khushwant Singh, The Freethinker's Prayer Book (2013), p. 35

“I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.”

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as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165

“I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.”

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as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).