On the hurried run-up to the number one Christian holiday, and in the absence of high anxiety over too many mundane tasks, a certain
surface tension will often suffice. Such a desire to break free of secular concerns and find some inner peace, however, knows no religious boundaries. Like most spiritual folk, Sufis pursue a reality that goes far below the surface. They do this by means of various spiritual techniques, such as study, prayer, meditation, ecstasy, asceticism, etc. The frequently banned and censored
Order of the Whirling Dervishes also engages in the
athletic dancing associated with this Muslim sect.
Sufism is defined as the "inner, mystical dimension of Islam." The inner is made outer in this beautiful dance, as it should also be in the many gifts that are given from the heart this season. Surf your databases for today's typo and save face by fixing any of these that surface there.
Sufac* (for
surfac*) comes up 30 times in OhioLINK and 619 times in WorldCat.
(Sufi dancer in Cairo, Egypt, December 2008, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Carol Reid
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