My Greatest Need is You
Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya 


Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure

Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word

My choicest hours

Are the hours I spend with You -

O Allah, I can't live in this world

Without remembering You -

How can I endure the next world

Without seeing Your face?

I am a stranger in Your country

And lonely among Your worshippers:

This is the substance of my complaint.