A contemplative practice of recognizing sacred worth in every person, essential for building dignity-based found family across class, status, and origin differences.
Rabia taught seeing the divine light in all beings, a practice that directly counters the hierarchies that develop in diaspora communities. Migration often creates status gradients based on education, wealth, legal documentation, or neighborhood prestige—yet found family requires horizontal recognition of equal worth. The 'mirror' practice involves regular contemplation: in this person who seems different from me, where is their divine spark? This dismantles the othering that fragmentation and scarcity produce. In found families, members come with vastly different resources, traumas, and privileges. Without deliberate practice in seeing sacred worth equally, the family replicates oppressive structures. Rabia's approach offers a spiritual technology for this: systematic recognition of inherent value independent of what someone can offer or achieve. This practice is especially vital when found family includes members with precarious documentation, limited English, or who live with disability—populations easily rendered invisible.
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