She told him it was music that her sufi dervish trainer used to play to her as they trained, that the ecstatic trance that dancing to it brought was the effect of the voice of god speaking to them through it.
he found such beauty in this sound!
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She told him that, in her youth, she'd trained with a sufi dervish, with a moth who could spin herself into a cocoon of flames in her whirling trances, and that, before her time, their ancestors had fought the ifrits.
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Rakim finally understood the ecstatic trances that his mother had described having undergone during whirling while training with her sufi master.
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She was dressed like a dervish, rakim couldn't help noticing, just as his mother had told him that her sufi master had been when she'd been growing up back home.
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You remember the sufi poetry i read you about those who seek god are like a moth being drawn to the flame?" he did. "you also said that 'trying to explain god to a mortal is like trying to explain the sun to a bat.'"
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