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The Date : December 17 , 1273 The Place : Konya , seat of the Seljuk Empire in Asia Minor The Scene : Greeks , Jews , Christians , Turks ,Moslems , all crowded in to procession ; music of flutes and strings fills the air along with cries and wails ; chanting and prayers of each religion... The Occasion : The earthly death-spiritual reunion of the King of Hearts with his Beloved . The Man : Mevlana Mohammed Jelaled-din Rumi (1) The Date : October, 2001 The Place : Bookstores across America and Europe The Scene: Students, housewives, busdrivers, artists, all crowded around the Information Desk "Do you have any new Rumi?" "Where can

Description of Love A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart; no sickness is there like sickness of heart. The lover's ailment is different from all ailments; love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries. A lover may hanker after this love or that love, but at the last he is drawn to the king of love. However much we describe and explain love, when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words. Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. When pen hastened to write, on reaching the subject of love it split in twain. When the discourse touched on the matter of love, pen was broken and paper torn. In e

Sema (Whirling) The dictionary meaning of "Sema" is to hear in English. Our holly book Qur'an begins with the word 'read'. When the reader is a "kamil" (mature, perfect) human resembling the "ney"(a reed flute especially played in Mevlevi music), who has abandoned all his desires and become the reflection of "Allah" (God) like a mirror as in Prophet Muhammad, the meaning of what is being read activates our spirits and the sound of it activates our body. Thus whirling and dancing enthusiastically in a state of ecstasy while listening to the music of Qur'an is called "sema". Actually whirling with a music that does not lead one to Allah cannot