يَا قَلْبُ إِلَى أَيْنَ الْمَفَرُّ؟ وَمَا الْوَجْهُ؟
وَقَدْ حَاصَرَتْكَ الْمَحَنُ وَحَبَسَتْكَ الشُّجُونُ
O heart, where is the escape? And what is the path?
Calamities have surrounded you, and sorrows have imprisoned you.
المصدر · Source: Margaret Smith, 'Rabia the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam', 1928