On the dancers’ heads sit tall conical felt hats.
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In a ceremony known as Sama, dancers wear long white robes with full skirts. In Konya, a special commemoration ceremony for Rumi is held every year from December 7th to 17th. Rumi's body was interred beside that of his father, and a splendid shrine, the Green Tomb was erected over his place of burial. Upon his death, his followers and his son Sultan Walad founded the Mevlevi Order, also known as the Order of the Whirling Dervishes, famous for the Sufi dance known as the Sama ceremony.ĭecember 17 is the day of Rumi's death. His death was mourned by the diverse community of Konya. The seeker then returns from this spiritual journey, with greater maturity, to love and to be of service to the whole of creation without discrimination with regard to beliefs, races, classes and nations. In this journey, the seeker symbolically turns towards the truth, grows through love, abandons the ego, finds the truth and arrives at the Perfect. In the Mevlevi tradition, Sama represents a mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind and love to the Perfect One. Rumi encouraged Sama, listening to music and turning or doing the sacred dance. 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. Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry and dance as a path for reaching God. A call from an independent soul yearning for true freedom from dogma and hypocrisy. His work has an all-embracing universality. Therefore, he can't be pinned in one statement. He was an utterly brilliant artist and a true genius that after the death of his mentor Shams became unstoppable.ĭue to the fact that Rumi recited poetry for about 25 years and 70,000 verses, he has covered every morsel of emotion, thought, idea and topic. In Rumi's own words, after meeting Shams he was transformed from a bookish, sober scholar to an impassioned seeker of universal truth and love. Rumi and Shams stayed together for a short time, about 2 years in total, but the impact of their meeting left an everlasting impression on Rumi and his work. A work filled with anecdotes, life lessons, moral stories, stories from all three Abrahamic religions, and popular topics of the day. Manuscript of Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi at Mevlana Museum, Konya, TurkeyĪfter the first collection, he devotes the last ten years of his life to creating Masnavi Ma’navi. It took him 15 years to complete this collection. The first collection is devoted to his mentor Shams named, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. These thousands of poems, which include about 2,000 in quatrains, are collected in two epic books.
In the 20th century, it was established that Shams was indeed murdered, not without the knowledge of Rumi’s sons, who hurriedly buried him close to a well that is still extant in Konya.Īfter Shams was extinguished, Rumi fell into a deep state of grief and gradually out of that pain outpoured nearly 70,000 verses of poetry almost all in Persian that are collected in two epic books.
The family, however, could not tolerate the close relation of Rumi with Shams, and one night in 1247 Shams disappeared forever. Rumi was heartbroken, and his eldest son, Sulṭan Walad, eventually brought Shams back from Syria. Tomb of Shams Tabrizi, Khoy, West Azerbaijan province, Iranįor months the two mystics lived closely together, and Rumi neglected his disciples and family so that his scandalized entourage forced Shams to leave the town in February 1246.
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