Rumi: Sama / Sema / Whirling

"Sema (ecstatic listening and whirling) is the peace of the soul for the living ones;
only the one with the Soul of the soul knows it.
Only the one who is asleep in the rose garden
should want to wake up.

But the one who is sleeping in a prison
would be worse off awake.

Whirl where there is a wedding,
not in mourning, nor in lamentation.

The one who has not seen his own essence,
the one from whose eyes that Moon is hidden,

for such a person what use is Sema and Daf (Drum)?
Sema is to unite with the beloved who took your heart.

Those who turn in the direction of prayer,
whirl in both this world and the next.

Pay heed, when a circle of friends whirl,
circling round and round, the Kaaba is the centre.

If you wish a mine of sugar, it is there;
and if you wish a fingertip of sugar, it is gratis." Rumi

Video / Editing by Farzad A.J.

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