Most Islamic Sufism can be called the Sufism of love, although some of the later Sufis had a tendency towards unity. Here love does not represent the highest union with God, but it is a station on this road. Is like that which leads to more complete identification.
The most attractive entity of this early love of Sufism is certainly the former slave Rabia.
Some special prayers are attributed to them at night!
My God, the stars are shining and the eyes of men
Are closed and kings have closed their doors and this a lover is alone with his beloved and I am alone here with you. "
Pure love is expressed here and the Sufis who came after him also showed love of the same standard. They did not claim love for any of their own interests.
If I worship you for fear of hell
To be thrown into hell and if I am yours in the hope of heaven
Worship, let me be expelled from heaven but if I do
I worship you only for you, so don't deprive me of your love. "
Rabia was probably the fourth daughter of a poor family. For some time, she also served as a housemaid in a Basra family.
His master had set him free because of his piety, piety, piety and godliness. Many people were impressed by his holiness and greatness and asked him to pray for them. Followed his teachings.
He introduced the theory of pure love of God. He introduced the theory of asceticism in this life.
He was introduced to the mystical life that was prevalent among the Muslims of the second century AH who sought God. He emphasized the pure love of God and quoted this verse of the Qur'an.
"He loves those who love him."
She expressed her feelings in her beautiful prayers. She spent long nights talking to God.
Farid-ud-Din Attar (died 1221 AH) has praised Rabia Basri in his Tazkira-ul-Awliya. Several narrations are also attributed to Rabia Basri. He came to greet them and he said!
"I need the owner of this house and I don't need this house."
Farid-ud-Din Attar says that Rabia was exemplary in her relationship with God and no one can equal her in this regard.
All the great Sufis of his time held her in high esteem, and she held a high position among her contemporaries.
Rabia was still a teenage girl while her parents had fallen in love with Allah and her sisters had become orphans. Soon Basra was in the grip of a severe famine and her sisters were separated from her. Passing through a deserted bazaar, a tyrant grabbed them and sold them to another man for just six dirhams.
Rabia's boss was a man without sympathy, he took a lot of work from her. Rabia performed her duties cheerfully and at the same time fasted all day and spent most of the night in worship. Many years later, one night when her master was in the middle of the night. He almost woke up and peeked out of the window into their room and found them engaged in worship.
She was in a state of prostration and the words were on her lips that!
"My God, you know that I am the only one in my life
I just want to spend the moment in your worship, but I am my own
I will not be able to fulfill my desire because you have made me a subject of another of your creatures. "
The man was astonished to see that Rabia was engaged in divine worship.There was a lamp in the air above his head and it was scattering light in his room. He was so disturbed to see all this that he could not sleep again that night and anxiously waited for sunrise. When the morning dawned, he called Rabia and addressed her in a gentle and kind tone and apologized to her and set her free. Rabia said goodbye to the man's house and in a poor area of the city. She began to spend all her time in worship.
She was the chosen one of God Almighty. She had abandoned pleasures and poverty till her last breath and never complained.
Farid-ud-Din Attar has narrated a story which is thought provoking. One day Rabia was asked:
"Do they love the Lord, the Most High, the Most Great?"
He replied:
"Yes i love"
He was then asked:
"Do you consider Satan an enemy?"
He replied:
"no"
The people were amazed and discovered that:
"What's the reason?"
Rabia replied:
My love for God leaves no room for hatred with Satan."
Once Rabia was ill.
A man came to see him and asked him what was the cause of his illness.
Rabia replied:
"By God, I don't know the cause of my illness except this one."
That heaven was revealed to me and in my heart
He had a desire and I thought my God was with me
He is skeptical and reprimands me and only he can make me happy.
Good.