Authentic Whirling Dervishes

Think that there isn't any decent whirling dervish footage available on the internet?

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• dervishes

[TheKidFromYTown]

This is one of my favorite videos. This guy is incredible as well as is the music!

Who are the musicians and what style of music is this ... and where can you purchase it?

[selwavideo]

This a Sufi dancer in Syria taped in Syria in 1980 or so. There isn't an album or anything but you are welcome to rip the audio from this clip. About midway one drummer puts his drum over the fire to tighten the drum skin. Imagine they were playing this same music a thousand years ago. Thanks for the compliment.

[beijoso]

I wish that the Sufi branch of Islam had become the dominant one. What a different world we would live in.

[ceana69]

come muslims who believe in sufism think that this dance bring them close to God. one hand is held toward the sky (to be close to God and spiritually) and the other is held toward the ground (i believe to release that) it is basically a type of meditation to bring themselves close to God on a personal level and also they believe it helps the people watching this too.

[joe1ger]

@khanra "This day have I PERFECTED your religion for you and COMPLETED My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion AL-ISLAM."

[joe1ger]

@khanra Is speaking english and the other things you said, from Deen? - No. So there is no problem in that. Im with you, - we can use a computer, we can speak english we can use technic, but we cant bring new stuff, wich neither the Prophet (pbuh) nor his compagnions, or the children of the compagnions did, in this Religion since Allah t, said, in the holy Quran, in 5:3 with approximate meaning:

[khanra]

If Sufism helps people feel closer to Allah, then I don't see why it should be such a harmful thing, as the Wahabbis think. Not everyone feels a connection to the dry orthodoxy of Salafism. And if you're heart isn't really in Islam, it doesnt matter how austere you are. Some people prefer Salafism, some prefer Sufism. But the Sufis arent the one calling everyone else in the world Kafir.

[khanra]

@joe1ger Did the Prophet speak English? Because by your logic, if the Prophet didn't do it, its un-Islamic. Using a computer is Un-Islamic then. The spirit of Islam is what matters- We live in a modern age, and not the 7th century. If Islam were all about freezing our practices in the 7th century, it would be an anti-modern religion. But thats not what Islam is. Islam is a religion of the heart, not a religion of backwards-looking puritanism.

[baglama7]

@igorsutak There is a video of the song "Love and Anger" by Kate Bush which I believe features Mevlevi Dervishes and David Gilmore.

[joe1ger]

@ISLAMBULO What?

[joe1ger]

@Padishyia 2) or he did not know everything in the deen of Allah t., and that is danger.

Allah t, says in the holy Quran, in 5:3 with approximate meaning: "This day have I PERFECTED your religion for you and COMPLETED My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion AL-ISLAM."

And last thing: "Only Turkish people do it though, because it is Turkish culture." Yes. And ISLAM is for all mankind, not only turkish people but as youself said "it is Turkish culture" and not Deen.

[joe1ger]

@Padishyia 1) I got one question for you; who was sent by Allah t., to the mankind as a rolemodel and as the last prophet (saw)? Ok, the prophet Mohammed (saw). Did he, or his companions, or the children of his companions, do that? No. When you say "this has everything to do with Islam" and he (saw), or his companions, or the children of his companions, did not do that, that will either mean you say, auzubillah, he was hiding something from the deen of Allah t. from us,

[Padishyia]

@joe1ger It has everything to do with Islam. Only Turkish people do it though, because it is Turkish culture.

[khanra]

@hulaqde What led the Arabs to a Golden Age 800 years ago, (and then the Turks, Indians, and Safavids in the 17th century) was INNOVATION. Colonialism pulled us down, but Wahabbism has kept us down. The Islamic world is slowly succumbing to the curse of Saudi-funded Wahabbism which views innovation as dangerous. They want us to live in the 7th century instead of the modern age. How can any society progress when such overwhelming forces are pushing us backwards?