Damascus-SANA
The Mawlawiya is an authentic heritage that became part of religious folklore. It became more popular in the blessed month of Ramadan. It is an ancient Sufi way passed down through generations, more than 800 years old, attributed to its founder Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, nicknamed “Mawlana,” according to what the head of the Mawlawi sect in Damascus, Sheikh Maher al-Jamal, told SANA.
Al-Jamal said: “Mawlawiah is a cyclical kinetic philosophy based on the principle that everything in the universe revolves, the planets revolve around the sun and the pilgrims revolve around the Kaaba, and the Mevlevi is like (the astronomy panel) where the Sheikh stands in the middle and around him the dancers rotate.”
Mawlawi is associated with the white color, which indicates purity and purity, as it has another connotation, as if it is a shroud that expresses the end of life. The tombstone according to Al-Gamal, who indicated that the colorful costumes and lighting are new show developments recently introduced to satisfy the spectators who accept it in Ramadan because of the joy and pleasure it gives.
He added: "The Mawlawi dance is by revolving around the soul, and the dancers are called dervishes who wear loose skirts, and the dancer raises his right hand and lowers the left downwards. This movement is nothing but a kind of soliloquy and supplication."
And about how to teach the method of malignancy, the camel said, “We start by teaching the mechanism of rotation when the child is 6 or 7 years old, and he must have the desire to learn it, so he rotates from the left side, i.e. counterclockwise, because everything in the astronomy rotates in the same direction and we give the child the basic rules, so he enters his body a new physiological It helps him not to feel “dizzy” and that is by continuing and training, then we do it by fixing his left foot and his right foot is the one that rotates so that he rotates around himself.
In turn, Mawlawi Muhammad Maher al-Jamal, who learned its principles at the hands of his father and grandfather, said that Mawlawi, like sports, needs training and continuity and depends on fitness and body flexibility, indicating that he can perform seven performances a day and is able to rotate for 45 minutes continuously.
Maha Al-Qahf
