The practice of loving all beings equally as expressions of the Divine, transcending the human tendency to favor some people over others.
Rabia al-Adawiyya taught that pure love of God dissolves the illusion of separation between self and other, making favoritism spiritually impossible. When we recognize the Divine presence in every soul, preference based on kinship, status, or utility becomes a form of spiritual blindness. This concept invites us to examine how favoritism operates as a contraction of the heart—a closing off from the universal presence of sacred worth. By cultivating Rabia's approach to undiscriminating love, we see favoritism not as a moral failing alone, but as a failure to perceive reality as it truly is. The cost of favoritism then becomes clear: it fragments our spiritual understanding and creates suffering in communities built on false hierarchies of human value.
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