sama' dance(whirling)

sama' dance(whirling dervish exercise)is a mystical spiritual dance which takes the dervish to a higher phase.in this dance the long hat is the symbol of tombstone and the cloth (rada) is the symbol of corps cloth(kafan).these mean that the dervish tries to release oneself from this terristrial and materialistic life and wants to be conscious of a further world.during whirling the right hand is up and the left one is down,that defines approching the divine source by the right hand and distributing it through others by the left hand.a dervish whirls 72 times. there is at least 2 stages of sama':the natural sama' and the mystical sama'.in the natural sama' the dervish just gets released from the earthy life but in mystical sama' a superior sense and a divine contact comes to exist.howmuch the dervish capacity is more the contact is deeper and the whirling is longer without paying attention to outer world at all.