Brothers, my peace is in my alonenes
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.

from Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom,
by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut

PS: 

Rabia is generally credited as being the founder of the Sufis, whose name comes from a word meaning "wool = Suf". They reacted to the political turmoil of their times, an age when the Abbasid caliphate was extending its power throughout the Muslim world, by retreating to an inner search for God. A principal belief of the Sufis was that one should not worship Allah out of fear of Hell, or hope of Heaven; rather, love for God should be an end in itself.

The details of Rabia's life are sketchy, though it appears she was born in about 717. Her mother and her father, Ismail, a holy man committed to a life of poverty, lived on the edge of the desert near the town of Basra in what is now Iraq. They had four daughters, each of whom they named Rabia, with an second given name to distinguish them; the famous Rabia was the fourth.

Legends maintain that Rabia came in contact with Hasan al-Basri (642–728 AD), a noted Islamic leader. This is difficult to accommodate with the few known facts about her, since when Hasan died she would have only been thirty-seven, and tales of their conversations suggest that they knew each other for a long time. Regardless of the details, the distinguished Hasan came into her life, and like the holy man before him, asked her to marry him. Again she refused him, explaining that her only love was Allah.