Hazrat Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah ra, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, ‘I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God...
Husne yusuf,dame isa, yade baiza dari Aanche khuban hama darad tu tanha dari... Thou hast beauty of Joseph, healing power of Jesus Christ, and brilliant hand of Moses. In short thou alone possesseth all these qualities of loveliness that constitute physical assemblage of graces... (salallahu alayhi wasalam)
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