Rabia al-Adawiyya — 🌸 Kindness Quote

Pure devotion seeks only the experience of eternal kindness itself.

“O God if I worship you from fear of punishment burn me in hell if I worship you in hope of paradise exclude me from it but if I worship you for your own sake then do not withhold from me your eternal kindness”

— Rabia al-Adawiyya

Pure devotion seeks only the experience of eternal kindness itself.

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