The moment
Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya, remembered as an early ascetic of Basra, taught that God should be loved for himself alone, not from fear of hell or hope of paradise. Her life is known only through much later accounts, above all ʿAṭṭār's thirteenth-century lives of the saints.
People: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya, Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār