Fatemeh Keshavarz — The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Whirling Dervishes
The body is not an obstacle in the way of the soul. It's a tool to be used for that journey. He grafted some of his most religious ideas in the form of errotically toned love poetry, which seems at once addressed to allah, or god, and to an earthly beloved. Rumy inspired the whirling dervishes by spinning around a column as he recited his poemso totas inome.
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