RABIA: poeta sufi (c 717-801)

"Because of her remarkable beauty, a famous brothel bought her for a large sum, and it is believed she lived and was forced to work as one might in a brothel for many years. She wrote: 'What a place for trials and transformation did my Lover put me,but never once did He look upone me as if I were impure. Dear sisters, all we do in this world, whatever happens, is bringing us closer to God.'

OUR BEAUTY
Live with dignity, women, live with dignity, men.
Few things will more enhace our
beauty as
much.

DIE BEFORE YOU DIE
Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts
of our body is
death.

So beautiful appeared my death - knowing who the I would kiss,
I died a thousand times before I died.

"Dies before you die," said the Prophet
Muhammad.

Have wings that feared
touched the Sun?

I was born when all I once
feared - I could
love.

Referencia: Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West por Daniel Ladinsky