The practice of loving all people equally as expressions of divine presence, regardless of social status or personal benefit.
Rabia al-Adawiyya taught that true love of God extends equally to all creation, dissolving the human tendency to favor those who benefit us or belong to our tribe. Favoritism emerges when we fragment our capacity for love, reserving it for the worthy, the useful, or the familiar. In this framework, favoritism costs us spiritual authenticity—we become traders in affection rather than vessels of it. Rabia's radical devotion demands we see the divine spark in every person, making preferential treatment a form of spiritual blindness. When we practice equal regard, we break the cycles of in-group loyalty that perpetuate exclusion and harm those deemed unworthy of our attention.
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