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In the Anatolian land the sound of the ney flute
is believed to come from the weeping of canes, for
they have failed to keep the secrets given to
them, revealed them into the wells, and are deeply
remorseful about it. In this universe where
everything rotates, the semazens who keep seeking
true love rotating around themselves reach God in
the company of the magical tunes played by the ney
flute.
According to Mevlana performing the sema ritual
with the ney tunes in an attempt to reach true
love which is the love of God, the divine love is
the only remedy that makes one a real human and
rescues one from greed, arrogance, existence, and
the sense of selfishness.
Mevlana addresses everyone and everything with an
attitude completely free of religious and racial
distinctions. Coming from the mountains of Horasan
in the 13th century to settle in Konya, this
Easterner person who loved God, truth, people, and
nature did a lot of thinking, and while doing
that, he positively founded the Westerner
philosophical systems of today, becoming the
second greatest name of the movement of
existentialism initiated by Heraklitos.
Although records show his date of birth as
September 30, 1207, Mevlana Celaleddin is
estimated to have been born about ten years before
this date. He moved with his father, Bahaeddin
Veled, to Konya in his thirties. After he lost his
father, he went to the cities of Haleb and šam for
education in theological schools. When he was in
his fifties, he met šems of Tebriz, a mature and
tough fellow who traveled a lot, not in dervish
lodges and theological scoolyards, but around
caravanserais and inns. šems had given up looking
for wisdom inside the books, and he was capable of
going through thirty or forty days “without a
single morsel to put in his mouth” pursuing to
learn in detail the life and experiences of the
Prophet. According to him, the “divine love of
God” could not be found in books, dervish lodges,
and theological schools. While performing the
rotations of sema with his arms open wide, he
would send his soul forward to leave his body
advance along to reach God. He had seized the very
mystical spirit. When he arrived in Konya he felt
he had found his soul mate in Mevlana, and Mevlana
felt he had come accross the guard sent for him
from the Seventh Heaven. From then on changes
could be seen in Mevlana who formerly used to be a
solemn sheikh who worshipped, taught in a
theological school, preached in a mosque, and had
people kissing his hand and seeking his prayers.
Music and sema replaced the lessons and preachings.
Complaining formerly of inability to reach God,
Mevlana now found God everywhere he looked with
the help and support of šems. His poems grew more
enthusiastic, overflowing religious boundaries.
After a while, when šems felt compelled to set out
on the roads of the world again, Mevlana wrote the
bitterest among his famous quatrains dedicated to
divine love. The Great Collection that he
dedicated to šems was thus accumulated. While
writing the Mesnevi, his greatest work, he aimed
to enlighten people and show them the right way.
When he finished his Mesnevi, Mevlana had arrived
in his eighties and his exhausted body was
grappling with sickness.
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