Rabia of Basra, born around 714 - 718 CE in Basra Iraq, was a Muslim Sufi Saint, sometimes considered to be the first Saint of the Sufi tradition. Born into poverty, it is told that she was marked as special from her birth. Legend has it once received a message in a dream from Muhammad (pbuh) telling him that his daughter was a favorite of the Lord. After the death of her father, she became an ascetic, living life in semi seclusion in the desert. Here she became to form her legacy, which has marked her as the queen of saintly women. She was one of the first people who set forth the notion of divine love from Allah, something that would later become a driving principal of Sufism. Although she had been proposed marriage many times, she refused, citing that she would call no man her master and that she only had time for God, from who she experienced pure and unconditional love. Because of this she was renowned for her virtue and piety, with some legends saying she would perform 1000 prostrations each night out of devotion to God. With her teachings and to her numerous followers, she provided a model of Allah and His creation and the mutual love between the two. During her life, and even after her death in 801 CE she was considered a person with spiritual and intellectually superiority to all other teachers and mystics around her.