Osho quotes Rabia al-Adawiyya as saying: “The heard is the lie and the seen is the truth.”

Pratiksha Apurv introduces us to mystic women who became enlightened and in the process, spread the fragrance of divinity around. Published in Speaking Tree, India, on March 4, 2018.

A quote by Rabia al-Adawiyya.

“Why are you searching outside for the bliss that you have lost within?” asks Rabia about whom Osho says, “Rabia al-Adawiyya is one of the rarest women in the whole human history.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.

Osho speaks on 11 books, among them The Songs of Kabir, The Secret Doctrine, and the Qur’an.

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Hazrat Rabi’a al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya (714 – 801 CE) also known as Rabi’ah al-Basri is considered to be the first female Sufi Saint of Islam, the first in a long line of female Sufi mystics. She was born and lived most of her life in Basra, a seaport in southern Iraq. Rabia was born into a