Hazrat rabia basri kon thi
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Hazrat Rabia Basri (R.A)
Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rābiʻa al-Basrī (Arabic: رابعة البصري) (717–801 C.E.) was a female MuslimSufi saint who is highly regarded and has been conferred the status of Half-Qalander.
Life sketch
She was born between 95 and 99 Hijri in Basra, Iraq. Much of her early life is narrated by Farid al-Din Attar, a later Sufi saint and poet, who used earlier sources. Rabia herself did not leave any written works.Rabi'a's parents were so poor that there was no oil in house to light a lamp, nor a cloth even to wrap her with.
She was the fourth child in the family. Her mother requested her husband to borrow some oil from a neighbor. But he had resolved in his life never to ask for anything from anyone except the Creator; so he pretended to go to the neighbor's door and returned home empty-handed.
In the night Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon Him) appeared to him in a dream and told him, "Your newly born daughter is a favorite of the Lord, and shall lead many Muslims to the righ
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Rabia Basri
Female Sufi scholar and saint (died 801)
For the Pakistani politician, see Rabia Basri (politician).
Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; c. 716 – 801 CE)[1] or Rabia Basri was a poet, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure from Iraq.[2] She is regarded as one of the three preeminent Qalandars of the world.[3]
Biography
Very little is known about the life of Rabiʿa, notes Rkia Elaroui Cornell.
What historical information can be ascertained from the earliest sources on Rabi‘a? As stated above, there is very little except to confirm that a Muslim woman ascetic and teacher named Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya or Rabi‘a al-Qaysiyya (the name ‘Adawiyya refers to her clan and the name Qaysiyya refers to her tribe) lived in or around the city of Basra in southern Iraq in the eighth century CE. [...] The commonly accepted birth date of 717 CE and death date of 801 CE come from a much later period and the ultimate source of these dates is unclear
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Rabia Al-adawiyya - Rabia al-Basri
Hazrat Rabia al-Adawiyya also known as Rabia al-Basri was a Sufi saint from Iraq and is considered to be the first female Sufi Saint of Islam, the first in a long line of female Sufi mystics. Born in the year 714 AD in Basra (present-day Iraq) and she was the fourth child to a poor couple. When her father slept with a heavy heart lamenting over the inability to purchase even oil for the little girl, Allah appeared in his dream and said, “Do not be grieved. You have been blessed with a daughter who will be a great saint; her intercession will be wished for by seventy thousand of my community.” When Rabia lost her parents because of famine, she along with her three sisters scattered to different places for survival.
She was mainly recognized for her esoteric verses on Allah among the masses. Her devotion and austerity in her practice amazed a lot of Sufi saints, including Hasan Basri, Ibrahim ibn Adham, Malek-e Dinar, and Shaqiq-e Balkhi. She has quoted the fundamental of her philosophy through the following verse:
“O, Allah! I
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