Rabiya

Sufi Poet

Poems:

In My Soul
In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.

Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.

Is there not a religion of love where the sovereignty is illumined nothing,

where ecstasy gets poured into itself and becomes lost,

where the wing is fully alive but has no mind or body?

In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque a church that dissolve, that dissolve in God.

-- Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, from the book, 'Love Poems from God' -- Daniel Ladinsky