Attribuée à Rabia al-Adawiyya
«I carry a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other: with these I will set fire to Heaven and put out the flames of Hell, so that voyagers to God can rip the veils and see the real goal.»
Fausse attribution
Verdict
Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Rabia al-Adawiyya
A modern poem, spread above all through Charles Upton's free versions (1988), that puts a hagiographical anecdote into the first person. The story of the woman with fire and water appears without a name in Joinville's *Life of Saint Louis* (1309), and later Islamic versions attribute it to Rabia; no Arabic poem by Rabia with this text exists.
Source: Schimmel, Annemarie. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975 (sobre Rabia y la difusión europea del relato del fuego y el agua a través de Joinville).
Ce qu'il a vraiment dit
Paroles vérifiées de Rabia al-Adawiyya
«I love You with two loves: a love of desire, and a love because You are worthy of it. The love of desire is that I am occupied with remembering You to the exclusion of all else; the love of which You are worthy is that You lift the veils for me until I see You. Neither in this nor in that is the praise mine: Yours is the praise in this and in that.»
Atribuido; Abu Talib al-Makki, Qut al-qulub (s. X), y al-Ghazali, Ihya ulum al-din, libro XXXVI. Texto árabe según la versión que reproduce Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (Wikisource); traducción propia.
«I have made You the confidant of my heart, and left my body to whoever wishes to sit with me: my body keeps the visitor company, and the Beloved of my heart is, in my heart, my companion.»
Atribuido; citado por al-Suhrawardi (Awarif al-maarif) según Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, X, año 185 H (Wikisource árabe), y por Abu Said ibn al-Arabi según al-Dhahabi; traducción propia.
«O soul, how long will you sleep, and how long will you rise? Soon you will sleep a sleep from which you will not rise until the Day of Resurrection.»
Relato de su sirvienta Abda bint Abi Shawwal, transmitido por Ibn Abi l-Dunya y recogido por al-Dhahabi, Siyar a'lam al-nubala', entrada «Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya» (Wikisource árabe); traducción propia.