Sacred Hospitality as Homemaking

In Islamic tradition, Rabia understood hospitality not as mere etiquette but as a devotional practice—an act of recognizing the divine in the stranger. For migrant communities, this transforms how found family is constructed: opening one's home, table, and time becomes a spiritual discipline that creates belonging. Sacred hospitality in diaspora contexts means intentionally crafting rituals around shared meals, celebration of holidays, and witnessing of milestones—practices that replicate and honor the homes left behind while building new ones. This framework elevates the everyday acts of found family (lending keys, cooking together, showing up at hospital visits) into sacred work. It positions homemaking not as having a place, but as practicing care, creating the conditions where displacement begins healing through mutual witness and tangible welcome.