Jalal al-Din Rumi · Theology
Rumi made music, poetry, and the famous whirling dance into acts of worship - ways of stilling the calculating mind and letting the body itself become a prayer. To understand the dance is to understand how Rumi thought the Divine is reached: not only through thought, but through rapture.
You learned that Rumi made the whirling dance and poetry into spiritual practices. Reconstruct what the sama is meant to accomplish in the soul, and why Rumi turned to ecstatic movement and verse rather than prose argument, in your own words.
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