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In reply to the discussion: Rumi and the Vision of the Qur'an [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)The dances are like prayers or meditation with Rumi
wiki can say it better
Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine and to do this so intensely that the soul was both destroyed and resurrected.
It was from these ideas that the practice of whirling Dervishes developed into a ritual form
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi
He transcends Islam /Sufi imo in much of his poetry
HE WAS IN NO OTHER PLACE . RUMI
Cross and Christians, end to end, I examined. He was not on the Cross. I went to the Hindu temple, to the ancient pagoda. In none of them was there any sign. To the uplands of Herat I went, and to Kandahar I looked. He was not on the heights or in the lowlands. Resolutely, I went to the summit of the [fabulous] mountain of Kaf. There only was the dwelling of the [legendary] Anqa bird. I went to the Kaaba of Mecca. He was not there. I asked about him from Avicenna, the philosopher. He was beyond the range of Avicenna . . . I looked into my own heart. In that place, his place, I saw him. He was in no other place.