Radical Hospitality Without Home

Rabia offered spiritual hospitality in her simple dwelling, extending radical welcome to seekers regardless of status. For found families in diaspora, hospitality takes on urgent meaning: many members may lack stable housing, legal status, or economic security. Yet found families practice a distinctive form of shelter-making that transcends physical walls. They create emotional safe havens where members can be fully seen and accepted. This hospitality includes practical generosity—sharing food, offering space, providing information networks—but extends into the realm of unconditional presence. A found family member who welcomes someone's grief about cultural loss, or who doesn't interrogate their precarity, offers profound hospitality. Rabia's teaching that love is its own home becomes literal and metaphorical: the family itself becomes the dwelling place. This practice acknowledges that found families often form precisely because traditional homes are unavailable or unsafe. By making each other home through devoted presence and practical care, they fulfill Rabia's vision of hospitality as the highest spiritual practice, one that sustains life itself.