The Dervishes are congratulating themselves with an incredible expression for us "Ashkallsun!". We understand it as "Bravo!", His literal translation is "to be loved," but the greeting means "let love be with you." What a lighter greeting than this one?

Back in the past

In order to be aware of the philosophy of rotation, we will have to go back to the past times. The Dwarf spin is actually part of the ceremony, called the Sema. It is a spiritual concert, but it is not only a liturgical service, but also an expression of the spontaneous emotional expression of the participants. According to the philosopher poet Rumi, the dance of rotation around one's own axis is a way for the spirit to free itself from the weight of the body and to thrust toward the divine.

Before and after each cycle of ritual dance, religious verses from the Qur'an are recited and concentrated prayers are performed. Dancing rotating dervishes are dressed in special long-haired white clothes. The pace of the dance is at first slow and gradually accelerates. No moves are made, nothing distracts the dancer from his marginal concentration. The dance is accompanied by rhythmic music and its purpose is to bring the dancers to a state of ecstasy.

Preparations for the ceremony go through several stages. By removing the black cloak before letting the dervishes remove the earthly person, the ego, they remain on the white blanket of faith (purity). At first, both hands briefly point the ground - the origin, then one rises through the heart zone - up - the Way. The frozen movement shows the transformation - from the earthly personality through the touch in the heart to the divine spaces. The dance is always a group with a Master who symbolizes Help and to whom the dervishes worship.

Three phases describe the sema best - the acquaintance with God, the observation of God and the union with God. In the first phase the dervish turns three times. In the second phase he takes off his upper clothes, releasing the soul from earthly care. The third phase slowly begins to spin. The right hand is lifted upward, through it accepts the will of God. The left hand points down, with it she gives away God's acceptance of the people. Right before the end of the dance briefly both hands are turned upside down.

They believe in the immortality of the soul

The Dervishes are the mystics of the East. They are spinning their wise sages for the incredible dance they are known for. They convey to the Islamic world the esoteric knowledge accumulated over millennia. They believe in rebirth, something in which Islam does not believe. They think that the meaning of human existence is to know ourselves. That we should look at ourselves as an immortal divine particle. Their society is part of Sufism - a doctrine of wisdom whose purpose is spiritual transformation and perfection.

The basis of Sufism is love and devotion. The Dervish and Sufi Master Rumi thinks that God is closer to us than we are close to ourselves. He is convinced that by looking for the answers to the questions we are interested in, we can best find them in ourselves. Let's spend time on ourselves and watch our own thoughts and feelings.

The whirling sages take life as a test

True dervishes do not become monks and do not flee from society to live separately. For them the real hermit can be such in the liveliest city of the world, because the retreat is not external and showy, it is spiritual.

Dervishes live in the rhythm of other people. They are traders, owners of galleries, lawyers, craftsmen, with everything they do. But they see their lives as a test. His meaning for the dervish is not to close himself but to help the others. When you ask the true dervish from where he came, he never says come from the city of Konya or elsewhere, the true dervish answers - "I come from God and go to God."

These wise men speak of several stages of knowledge. The first stage is the knowledge that is given to us through books and school - we are all reaching this point. But it is particularly important, according to them, to be the stage in which we learn about the world within us by turning to ourselves. They are convinced that the only way to judge people around us is by paying attention to how we feel in their presence. If we have to behave differently and change to be liked, then these people are not for us. But if the people who surround us make us be what we are in our very nature, then these are our "mirrors", our friends and companions in life.

It is not important what we leave, but how we live here and now

The dervishes are culting the human heart. They think it can not be cheated. But our minds can easily be deceived by the senses - sight, touch, hearing, smell. "Trust your heart," say the dervishes, not the judgment of things. On intuition too, it is synthesized knowledge of previous lives.

According to the dervish philosophy, if we realize that this time is from eternity and eternity and from God, fear will disappear in us because the greatest fear of man is from death. People are afraid to be transient, morbid, they want to leave something behind. This is pointless from a spiritual point of view because we never cease to exist and that is why it is not important what we leave, but how we live here and now.

Dance, fall into a state of trance

They dance in long white slaves with broad skirts and black cloaks. On their heads they have red hats. When the principal in the ceremony worships, he leads the dervishes into a circle. Once they make three laps, they throw the black cloaks, which symbolizes release from their earthly cares. When they open their hands, they begin to spin by holding their right hand stretched upwards. In this way, they receive a blessing from the sky, which connects to the earth through its left-handed left hand. Turning to the left heel, they are steadily increasing the speed by falling into a trance.