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Wherever You Turn: The Mevlevi Whirling Ceremony
Wherever You Turn: The Mevlevi Whirling Ceremony By: Kabir Helminski Although practices of whirling, especially among the peoples of Central Asia, have existed from time immemorial, it was the...
View ArticleThe Word: Wheat by Rumi; The Sound: One Truth by Omer Faruk Tekbilek
Omar Faruk Tekbilek had been studying Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, with the thought of becoming a Sufi cleric. At 15, he quit school to become a professional musician. “But I never quit...
View ArticleA Poem: Confused and Distraught
By Jalaluddin Rumi Again I am raging, I am in such a state by your soul that every bond you bind, I break, by your soul. I am like heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason,...
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