{"id":75,"date":"2011-03-21T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/03\/21\/role-model-to-superheroes-rabia-basri-rabi%ca%bba-al-%ca%bbadawiyya-al-qaysiyya-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a9\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T02:30:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:30:25","slug":"role-model-to-superheroes-rabia-basri-rabi%ca%bba-al-%ca%bbadawiyya-al-qaysiyya-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/03\/21\/role-model-to-superheroes-rabia-basri-rabi%ca%bba-al-%ca%bbadawiyya-al-qaysiyya-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Model to Superheroes: Rabia Basri (R\u0101bi\u02bba al-\u02bbAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya \u0631\u0627\u0628\u0639\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u0648\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629 ) Original Sufi Celebrant of ‘Divine Love’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All\u00a0<\/div>\n
of what<\/div>\n
I would want my child to know<\/div>\n
my poems attempt.<\/div>\n
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We are infants before each other, are we not,<\/div>\n
so vulnerable to each other’s words and\u00a0<\/div>\n
movements.<\/div>\n
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A school I sat in cured me of hurting others.<\/div>\n
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I have come to see that all are seated at God’s table,\u00a0<\/div>\n
and I have become God’s<\/div>\n
servant.<\/div>\n
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Sometimes God is too shy to speak in public<\/div>\n
and so God<\/div>\n
pinches me.<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
That\u00a0<\/div>\n
is my cue —<\/div>\n
to fill in the blanks of your<\/div>\n
understanding<\/div>\n
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the best I\u00a0<\/div>\n
can.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
(Rabia lived from 717 to 801 in Basra, Iraq)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Since no one really knows anything about God,<\/div>\n
those who think they do are just<\/div>\n
troublemakers.<\/div>\n
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She is without a doubt the most popular and influential of female Islamic saints and a central figure in the Sufi tradition. \u00a0Having been born nearly 500 years before Rumi, she, more than any other poet, influenced his writings. \u00a0Reading Rabia is like reading Rumi or Hafez – in the original.<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabia_al-Adawiyya<\/a><\/div>\n
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(top painting by\u00a0http:\/\/www.exoticindiaart.com\/product\/OR93\/<\/a> )<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 All\u00a0 of what I would want my child to know my poems attempt. \u00a0 We are infants before each other, are we not, so vulnerable to each other’s words and\u00a0 movements. \u00a0 A school I sat in cured me of hurting others. \u00a0 I have come to see that all are seated at God’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-role-model-to-superheroes","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}