Rabi`ah ibn Nizar (Arabic: ربيعة) is the patriarch of one of two main branches of the "North Arabian" (Adnanite) tribes, the other branch being founded by Mudhar.
According to the classical Arab genealogists, the following are the important branches of Rabi`ah:
Like the rest of the Adnanite Arabs, legend has it that Rabi`ah's original homelands were in the Tihamah region of western Arabia, from which Rabi`ah migrated northwards and eastwards. Abd al-Qays were one of the inhabitants of the region of Eastern Arabia, including the modern-day islands of Bahrain, and were mostly sedentary.
Bakr's lands stretched from al-Yamama (the region around modern-day Riyadh) to northwestern Mesopotamia. The main body of the tribe was bedouin, but a powerful and autonomous sedentary sub-tribe of Bakr also resided in al-Yamama, the Bani Hanifa.
Rabia is the transliteration to mainly two different Arabic words written differently in Arabic text and properly transliterated differently:
I will clean and cover my windows
'Cos I don't want to see where the wind blows
I'll love it, I'll covet another one's idol
Because I am the queen of denial
I'll love it, I'll love it
I'll love it, I'll love it
The ego is the master of psyche
And envy tastes sweeter than grey meat
I'll love it and learn to follow behind all
Because I am the king of denial
I'll love it, I'll love it
I'll love it, I'll love it
The back will snap from burdens of envy
And I'll forget the mould who set me
I'll love it, and shove it from proof to trial
Because I carry the weight of denial
I'll love it, I'll love it
I'll love it, I'll love it
Everybody loves to want to
Everybody wants to need to
Everybody needs to be
To be somebody else
Everybody loves to want to
Everybody wants to need to
Everybody needs to be
To be somebody else
Everybody loves to want to
Everybody wants to need to
Everybody needs to be
To be somebody else
Everybody loves to want to
Everybody wants to need to
Everybody needs to be