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We do not need to fear aloneness. Really, we were born alone, and we will die alone. This fact of birth and death is true, regardless of how many persons are present.
For Rabia to hold in her hand true evidence of Divine Love, by abandoning all outside to enter into Presence, is the goal of her life. What a goal! This goal cannot be consistently known without entering into aloneness as a spiritual practice.
In aloneness as spiritual practice, not merely being alone, we are face-to-face with our dependency and mortality. Possibly, this is a reason most persons refuse aloneness as devotional asceticism. However, the felt suffocation of aloneness opens to the freedom of inwardly, emotionally confessing who we are, and to Whom we owe our very lives. Aloneness, then, tempers our human pride and tendency to see ourselves as independent.
Beyond this, aloneness nurtures Love. Like a man and woman in Love, wanting to be apart from others to share intimately with each other in aloneness, the Lover of God longs for solitude to share Love with the Beloved, with Love. Indeed, God's desire for him or her is the desire expressed by him or her for God. The desire becomes One, and makes One.
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