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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 Allah, I can’t live in this world
Without remembering You —
How can I endure the next world
Without seeing Your face?

I am a stranger in Your country
And lonely among Your worshipers:
This is the substance of my complaint.

– Rabi’a al- Adawiyya rahimahu Llah –