Rabia Quotes

#1. The Rabia Balkhi, registered to Captain Eric Khan out of Pallas, was still just goods and people heading into the frontier to stake a claim. Fewer horses, maybe, but more fusion reactors.

James S.A. Corey

#2. Service
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

Rabia el-Adawia.

Idries Shah

#3. It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.

Rabia Chaudry

#4. Life is a Mirror, Smile at it.

Ujjwal Chugh

#5. How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

Rabia Basri

#6. God reveals your destiny through synchronicity.

Rabia Noorstani

#7. You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

Rabia Basri

#8. How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

Rabia Basri

#9. Read more, learn more, laugh more and love more.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

Mark Twain

#11. O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

Rabia Basri

#12. O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

Rabia Basri

#13. I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

Stephen King

#14. I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah

Rabia Basri

#15. Your prayers are your light;
Your devotion is your strength;
Sleep is the enemy of both.
Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
If you ignore it, if you waste it,
You will only turn to dust.

Rabia Basri

#16. The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Ken Kesey

#17. Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You -
O God, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You

Rabia Basri

#18. Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

Baltasar Gracian

#19. You think you can run through every option, good or bad, and determine which path to take. Sometimes, no matter how much you consider something, you still can't see the bad coming. Sometimes the only way through the fire is directly through the center - we can't skirt it, and that's not our fault.

H.M. Ward

#20. O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court

Rabia Basri

#21. There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire

#22. I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

Rabia Basri

#23. My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

Richard Simmons

#24. The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?

Richard Bachman

#25. I want to put a bullet through Adam Kent's spine.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

Rabia Basri

#27. Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Rabia Basri

#28. The only exception was my mother, who unabashedly took up for Adnan, fought with anyone who had anything negative to say about him, never stopped talking about him with Aunty Shamim, and prayed for him with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I

Rabia Chaudry

#29. True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

Rabia Basri

#30. I'm too angry at you to let you die.

Andrew Peterson

#31. I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

Rabia Basri

#32. I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
The day You became my Friend,
I have not slept -
And even if You drive me from your door,
I swear again that we will never be separated -
Because You are alive in my heart

Rabia Basri

#33. May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Rabia Basri

#34. He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

Rabia Basri

#35. The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend.

Rabia Basri

#36. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

Debbi Fields

#37. Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Albert Ellis

#38. O Lord ...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in

Rabia Basri

#39. If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

Rabia Basri