Sufi Dance! The Whirling Dervishes

Mevlevi shaikh Şefik Can writes, ‘Rumi tells us to take the love of God to the forefront, to abstain from being attached to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it, to find the essence of the faith, and to raise our faith from the level of imitation to the level of realization.’ In addition to obligatory Islamic worship, some of the main spiritual practices within the Mevlevi Order are as follows: Dhikr: invocation of the Divine Names which is believed to purify the heart.