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Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya, an early Muslim mystic, became associated with the idea that worship should arise from love of God rather than fear of punishment or hope of reward. Stories attributed to her challenge the idea of religion as a transaction. Her teachings helped make divine love a central theme in later Sufi traditions.

Experiments with linked quantum particles rule out a simple idea: that each particle already carries a fixed answer for every measurement scientists might choose to make. The measured links between the particles cannot be explained that way, showing that quantum objects do not behave like ordinary everyday objects.