“I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.”

—  Rabia Basri

The quote "I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block th…" is famous quote attributed to Rabia Basri, Muslim saint and Sufi mystic.

as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).

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