Sufi Dance! The Whirling Dervishes

This year, visitors were able to return to the ceremonies honouring Rumi, after the coronavirus pandemic forced last year's commemorations to be held without spectators. One visitor from the United States, Rupert Flowers, told the state-run Anadolu Agency that he travelled to Konya, inspired by Rumi's best-known and welcoming quatrain: "Come, come again, whatever you are, "If you repent a thousand times, "Even if you break your repentance a thousand times, come again "Our door is not a door of despair. "Come, come again whatever you are."