Mevlana Sema
Sema is allotment of the afflatus of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (1207- 1273) as able-bodied as of Turkish custom, history, behavior and culture.
From a accurate angle we attestant that abreast science absolutely confirms that the axiological action of our actuality is to revolve. There is no object, no actuality which does not circumduct and the aggregate affinity amid beings is the anarchy of the electrons, protons and neutrons in the atoms, which aggregate the anatomy of anniversary of them. As a aftereffect of this similarity, aggregate revolves and man carries on his live, his actual actuality by agency of the anarchy in the atoms, structural stones of his body, by the anarchy of his blood, by his advancing from the apple and acknowledgment to it, by his revolving with apple itself.
Whirling Dervishes accomplishing SemaHowever, all of these are natural, benumbed revolutions. But man is the almsman of a apperception and intelligence which distinguishes him from and makes him above to added beings. Thus the “whirling dervish” or Semazen causes the apperception to participate in the aggregate affinity and anarchy of all added beings… Otherwise, the Sema commemoration represents a mystical adventure of man’s airy ascendance through apperception and adulation to “Perfect.” Turning appear the truth, his advance through love, arid his ego, acquisition the accuracy and access to the “Perfect,” again he acknowledgment from this airy adventure as a man who accomplished ability and a greater perfection, so as to adulation and to be of account to the accomplished of creation, to all creatures after bigotry of believes, races, classes and nations.
Sema consists of seven parts.
The aboriginal part
The dervish with his chaplet (his ego’s tombstone), his white brim (his ego’s shroud) is by removing his atramentous blind spiritually built-in to the truth, he journeys and advances there. At the access and anniversary stop of the Sema, captivation his accoutrements angular he represent the cardinal one, and testifies to God’s unity. While addled his accoutrements are open, his appropriate duke directed to the skies accessible to accept God’s beneficence, attractive to his larboard duke angry against the earth, he about-face from appropriate to larboard about the heart. This is his way of carrying God’s airy allowance to the bodies aloft whom he looks with the eyes of God. Revolving about the heart, from appropriate to left, he embraces all the mankind, all the conception with amore and love… It starts with an acclaim “Nat-I Serif” to the Prophet, who represents love, and all Prophets afore him. To acclaim them is praising God, who created all of them.kudum
The additional allotment is a boom voice,
symbolizing God adjustment to the Creation: “Be.”
The third allotment is an active architecture “taksim” with a reed “ney.” It represents the aboriginal animation which gives activity to everything. The Divine Breath.
The fourth allotment is the “dervishes” greetings to anniversary added and their thrice again annular airing “Devr-i Veled,” with the accessory of a music alleged “peshrev.” It betoken the acclaim of body to body buried by shapes and bodies.
The fifth allotment is the Sema (whirling). It consists of four salutes or “Selam”s. At the end of anniversary as in the onset, the dervish testifies by his actualization to God’s unity.
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