Rabia al-Adawiyya
I Have Made You the Confidant of My Heart (attributed verses)
Traditional attribution
I Have Made You the Confidant of My Heart (attributed verses)
إني جعلتك في الفؤاد محدثي * وأبحت جسمي من أراد جلوسي
The lover declares that she has made God the interlocutor of her heart and leaves her body to whoever wishes to sit with her: the body keeps the visitor company, but the Beloved is the heart's intimate companion. The verses express the separation between outward life and inner conversation with God, and their ambiguity provoked suspicious readings very early, which Sunni biographers strove to defuse.
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Authorship note
Two verses attributed to Rabia by Abu Sa'id ibn al-A'rabi (d. 952) and by al-Suhrawardi in the Awarif al-ma'arif, according to al-Dhahabi and Ibn Kathir. Al-Dhahabi quotes them to refute those who read them as a profession of divine incarnation (hulul) or of antinomianism (ibaha).
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Rabia al-Adawiyya
Siyar a'lam al-nubala' (entrada «Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya»)
The Conscious LibrarySiyar a'lam al-nubala' (entrada «Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya»)
Mu'assasat al-Risala, Beirut, 1985
Translation: al-Dhahabi; ed. Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut y otros
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- Ascetic Sayings Transmitted with Chains (Ibn Abi l-Dunya, al-Dhahabi) · 894
- Sayings in al-Sulami and al-Qushayri's Epistle · 1045
- First among Sufis · 1982
- Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam · 1928
- Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth · 2019
- Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a · 1988
Sources
- al-Dhahabi, Shams al-Din. Siyar a'lam al-nubala', entrada «Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya» (texto árabe en Wikisource).
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