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Musical Audition

Musical Audition (listening to music) is a Sufi Connection Technique.[1]

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Notes

"The Sufi practice that is discussed the most in the early manuals of Sufism is listening to music, commonly referred to as ‘musical audition’ (sama e). Listening to music, which often accompanied the love poetry and mystical poetry that Sufis themselves had begun to write, while immersed in the remembrance of God and unaware of oneself induced ecstasy in worshippers. The discussions in Sufi manuals of spontaneous movements by Sufis in ecstasy while listening to music and the efforts made to distinguish this from ordinary dance, suggest that already this practice had started to cause a great deal of controversy."[2]

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Footnotes

  1. Rumi. The Masnavi: Book One. Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi. Oxford University Press, 2004.
  2. Rumi. The Masnavi: Book One. Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi. Oxford University Press, 2004. p. xii