{"id":46780,"date":"2015-09-28T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46780"},"modified":"2015-09-28T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:30:12","slug":"king-abdullah-ii-of-jordan-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46780","title":{"rendered":"King Abdullah II of Jordan at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; and the thought of Rabia of Basra ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-abdullah-ii-and-rabia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-abdullah-ii-and-rabia.png\" alt=\"SPEC abdullah ii and rabia\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-abdullah-ii-and-rabia.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-abdullah-ii-and-rabia-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a variant on these words, which I&#8217;ve quoted here from <strong>Asra Nomani<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fetzer.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/resources\/attachment\/2012-07-12\/dad_nomani_essay_0.pdf\">Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad<\/a>, <strong>Rabia <\/strong>also wrote this poem, translated here by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0939660245\"><strong>Charles Upton<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O my Lord,<\/p>\n<p>if I worship you<br \/>\nfrom fear of hell, burn me in hell.<\/p>\n<p>If I worship you<br \/>\nfrom hope of Paradise, bar me from its gates.<\/p>\n<p>But if I worship you<br \/>\nfor yourself alone, grant me then the beauty of your Face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; and the thought of Rabia of Basra ] . In a variant on these words, which I&#8217;ve quoted here from Asra Nomani&#8216;s Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad, Rabia also wrote this poem, translated here by Charles Upton: O my Lord, if I worship you from fear of hell, burn me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,829,741,714,738,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-jordan","category-poetry","category-sufi","category-un","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46789,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46780\/revisions\/46789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}