Love as Radical Belonging

Rabia famously sought to love God without fear of punishment or hope of reward—pure devotion stripped of calculation. Applied to found family in diaspora, this becomes a radical belonging practice: loving community members without demanding they justify their presence or repay emotional investment. Migrants often internalize precarity, feeling they must earn their place through productivity, gratitude, or assimilation. Rabia's model invites a different economy: unconditional welcome that asks nothing in return. This doesn't mean enabling harm, but rather creating a baseline of acceptance that precedes performance. Found family becomes a refuge where people are valued for their existence, not their utility. In diaspora contexts where institutional belonging is conditional and contingent, this practice offers profound psychological safety. It challenges the scarcity mindset that forces migrants to compete for limited resources and recognition, instead establishing abundance-based kinship.