Alone with the Alone

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Shaykha Rabi’ah al-‘Adawiyyah al-Qaysiyyah al-Baswri (q.s.) said: 

“Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness.

My Beloved is Alone with me there, always.

I have found nothing in all the worlds,

That could match His Love.

This love that harrows the sands of my desert.

If I come to die of desire.

And my Beloved is still not satisfied,

I would live in eternal despair.

To abandon all that He has Fashioned

And hold in the palm of my hand,

Certain Proof that He Loves me -

That is the name and the goal of my search.”