I don’t know whether you are the heart or heart-ravisher and the soul or the darling sweetheart
You are the whole subsistence, in my summing-up, I don’t know whether this one or that on.
I see no other heart-ravisher all over universe
I know no other darling sweetheart but you all over cosmos
I’ve got one bloody heart, I lost it
I don’t know where it is or if it is mad or not in these days
My heart really knows your flat-out hair
I don’t know what it wants from this perplexed indigent one
I find you nor in heart neither in universe or cosmos
This perplexed person doesn’t know where to find you
If you are going to go for my soul, be here and take my soul
I don’t know whether you have another intention or not
Eragi

As I have said before, all the dances of subsistence are the ones from innate love and affection which their existence causes life, continuance and unity and lack of it causes extirpation and destroy.
The result of these two pearls is worshiping and praising. This result shows a great trend and tendency and proves such a love and affection inside the lover. The simplest form of praising is invocation which was mentioned before.
Everyone spends days of one’s life praising and worshiping in different fashions and words. The deeper the words and concepts, the more burning the inner flame of fire and as the result you feel nearer to the beloved.
The invocator who is a invocation freak and is doing one’s best on the way to ideal, remembers God at any time and sacrifices all the things one has as a sign of praising.

I was a man of wisdom but a singer you made out of me
You made a man looking for wine and joy
I used to be a meek man of pray
But now you made me plaything of children
Mowlana

Generally, invocating a sort of personal praising is an inner one. Basically, gnostics is a personal trend and tendency and for this reason, no others’ intervenes. There is a great and magnificent effect for invocation and praising God over night on one’s lonesome. This purifies the heart and soul and makes the material life fruitless and of no value.
The bond between the creature and the creator is an ideal and rising one. Accompanying the pious brings a great dignity for you. Then in this case, think of accompanying the entire wisdom and the one who has all the ideals.
In old times, praising used to be done in group accompanying music by which soul and the thought felt a great energy inside. There are fewer signs of these groups. Maybe that’s for today’s kind of living. In old times, inseparable and old friends used to spend more time with each other and may praise God by music altogether and may have some kinds of delights. Unfortunately, today’s human’s life is full of technology and improvement in science and there is less soul and spirit consideration. In this kind of situation, the lovers forget about this sort of life and spend some time with the beloved.
Wrong treatment of the society has stopped the people from self identification. We have learned a lot to go after materials and pay less attention to the inside and the soul. No try to know this “I”.
Indulgence and materialism being great diseases in a moral and gnostic life are the ones which conquer the real self resulting in self ignorance. In this situation, the lovers who are on the way to ideal have planned a program getting rid of material life sorrows through the moral and mind power they have. Even today, there are so many people who are in memory of God all the time and they feel themselves in his threshold while living lovely in this burning desire for him.

No sorrow for butterfly but the candle’s flame

Capering (Sama’) which is one of the Sufi’s praising ceremonies is of high importance and there are so many customs and traditions for holding it. In capering, gathering of friends is the center of it and so many of soul needs are satisfied. This is a real soul food as it is said:
Capering (Sama’) is relaxation of lovers’ heart and soul, joy of the honest, sustenance of others’ souls and the healer of wayfarers’ pains.
Capering (Sama’) is the thing that completes all the food for the wayfarer. For a human there are a concupiscence, air, wisdom and soul; any one of them needs something to be fulfilled. Everything that a human gets is in these limits. If the food of one of them is fulfilled, other ones may go in danger and there will be problems in the world of being.
If there is one thing to fulfill all these desires at one time, there will be no fight. This appears by Capering (Sama’). All these four desires are fulfilled by capering. Concupiscence will go through badness, goodness, whether it is poem or something else and etc; air will go through music, rhythms, orders of songs and etc; wisdom will go for the concepts of words and principles and the soul will trend to the joyful songs which are signs of the world of spirits.
All of them will be fulfilled. There will be joy in the group. You can refer the books which have detailed and enough information about capering (Sama’). Capering is a cup from the holy world informing the lovers of Kiblah. It is a sound which encourages wayfarers on the way of ideal

At the time of capering (Sama’), heart would take the lover away
Would take the soul to the place of secrets
All this body and soul is whispering your soul
This would be taken all to the friend’s world

Capering (Sama’) is a connection between the helpless lovers in the dark material life to his threshold , HUU

The believers may say that the heaven’s predicators
Made every bad song a masterpiece
We were all from Adam
We heard all those words in heaven
Although he made us from water and soil
We remember something
The crying of the oboe and the threatening of kettledrum
They are something like that basic nature sound
This very ear cannot hear those songs
As the this very ear is not capable for bad sins
The learned ones have said these words
Are taken from the real source
These are the real songs which creatures sing
Through tambourine and vocal cords
For lovers, food is capering (Sama’)
In which is the thought of unity
Inside dreams may get strong
They may get real from calling out and whistling
Love’s desire got sharp for the songs and whispering
In a fashion that its desire makes the nuts fall down
Mowlana

Sufis and gnostics don’t have the same opinions. Different groups and factions have different opinions about Sufism. One of the main supports of capering (Sama’) or it can be said that the establisher of capering praising was Molavieh faction who used to do this even in alleys and streets and markets. In other words, they were in such worshiping and praising God all the time that any rhythm or music would bring them to dance and capering for God.
Later, so many complaints and fights against capering (sama’) became agreement and likings as capering proved to be a very good way for the wayfarers and passing this way to ideal successfully.
 

You the musician, as we heard your capering (Sama’)
something to forget about wisdom and consciousness play
Make a silk and make it cotton from this
This is the story of Sufi’s presence
Bring us a cup of wine you cupbearer. From those nice ones
I may collapse for its picture
I have drawn perplexed pictures on my heart
Give us some wine to remove these pictures
Wash us by wine to purify our serenity
Sheikh had zeal
Others’ upbraiding is because offense
Serenity wouldn’t complain at all about this
Tell the advisor: don’t advise us
As we are full of advice
Oh the morning wind, we are so unhappy
Do us a favor; send this unhappiness to our friend
If that angle is going to get through our loneliness
Let that messenger angel not be the passerby
He left and our drink became poison but
We will take the poison for his memory as if we drank wine
Oh Ohadi, whisper the words to know you
The enemy, the one who can’t really see,
is not capable of knowing the quiet one
Ohadi

Today, we feel those very joy, delight, serenity and cheers of wayfaring in our folklore music. Being alone and the presence of desideratum, gathering of friends and burning invocations don’t compare with anything else but the existence of our folklore music which originate from those old musical instruments of capering (Sama’) are a blessing. We hear the sound of sitar along with tambourine and reef (flute) and other musical instruments which is after the lover in search of beloved one although there are so many blocks and complaints from strict religious people to destroy this divine rhythm. This kind of music may have a great inner emotion as you hear it.
These songs are not for a special fraction or group. This is like God who is the creator of everything and everyone. All the ones in this world are facing him. They are for him. Existence of gnostic music in all tribes and different places in the world proves the unity of wayfaring.
Invocations and capering (Sama’) which are the basics of love and praising, are not forgotten any time by the lovers of God. Their domains would expand day after day while being much deeper. There are so many real situations for proving that.
Love and gnostics which are two human wings on the way to ideal while creating the unity with the creator are the basic of Iranian music. There are rare kinds of music all over the world not to take these invocations and praising into consideration.
Love and gnostics are the basic principles of divine human. Through these two wings, two God-given gifts, creatures are qualified for flying to the ideal. Knowledge without love and love without knowledge are of no account to ideal progression. Love and gnostics are the same as wavicle (wave-particle) creating the human while causing evolution and ideal of mankind. You could take our gnostic ones as an example for perfectness and spirituality in their generations. They set the journey freely to the friend.
 

Leave me alone with my own pain
No one understands the medication of soul but the king of souls
As the king of souls is aware of the souls
As no one knows my pain cure
It’s ok that away from the king
The servant dies and the king doesn’t know about that
If the nightingale leaves the garden
It won’t know the way to the garden because of being delighted
Remove that black hair out of your face
As the Hindu doesn’t value Turkistan
Serve us with wine
As that reneger doesn’t value making promises
Give Sufi some pure wine as a conscious one
Doesn’t know the story of the joy of drunken ones
Oh my heart, there is a home on the regret way
No one knows that but the way travelers
Khaju tell the wise the love story
As the atheist doesn’t know the meaning of faith.
Khajoi Kermani

“Love and kindness are two stimuli to ideal progression” gnostic ones said in their poems. Having these two powers need qualification, approaching Right and divine understanding. The best joys in the universe are pain of love, kindness, being away from friend and the hope of visiting his visage. The whole universe has the same pain. This is true for the smallest particle to the biggest galaxy. Pain of love, as gnostic ones say, is youth ether. A creature without love is nothing but mud and soil.

If I leave my heart for your love what should I do?
If I fell in love and feel sad for you what should I do?
I am living for your love but
If I died for seeing your visage, what would I do?
or
You are the one who my falling-in-love-with is heart healer
My illness cure is the eagerness for you
No one has seen your face even in dreams
Your face is not seen but by heart’s wakefulness
Saif
A human of no love and kindness seeks an aimless life. Love and kindness which you are carried with knowing yourself or others well are pearls causing an eternal relaxation. By concentration and practicing on divine invocations and capering (Sama’), there would be a great deep relaxation and confidence inside.

I visited the doctor and told about my inner pain
He said: no talks with the ones who are not your real friends
I said: what about food? He said: this great suffering
I said: what about abstaining? He said: from both worlds
Abosaied

Effects of gnostic thought: meekness in saying, silence, patience, balance and generosity as you get the result in the way you think. A lover while invocating and focusing is not ready to spend much time on the ones except the beloved one.
Study the gnostic ones’ biography and you will find that they used to live beyond material life and sorrow and happiness were the same for them. They used to spend all their time praising God. They didn’t ignore the material life but for the necessary and vital matters. In the next chapters, discussing about the gnostic ethics, you will find that a god-loving one is not in limitations of material. Soil and gold are the same for him as he has found himself full of love in a way that all the gold in universe is not the same as the soil in front of his house.

Everyone who fell greatly in love
He is free of any fault or greed
Be happy our cheerful love
You are the unique cure for our pains
You are a cure for our selfishness and principle
You are our Galenus and Socrates
Mowlana


Loving God, affection for God, invocation and praising God are all correct divine progressions. Happy the ones who are going on this way truly and faithfully and on their lonesome are fulfilling their gnostic world with divine words. Stepping on this way gives human moral capabilities and metaphysic powers in a fashion that this material life seems a ceremony in a cage.

I am a heavenly bird not from this world
They have made a cage from my body for some days
I am waiting for the day of flying to the friend’s home
To fly over his home

Spirit has a great capability for ideal progression while the body is completely limited because of innate characters. So many lovers could fly beyond via concentration, praising and worshiping through spirits. We see their body and this very appearance unknowing their real moral progression.
Every lover is evolving inside with the joy of love and is praising him and invocating while feeling the joy of wayfaring. The lover is not wasting his time on logical and philosophical reasoning

The way of wisdom is complicated
Nothing but God exists for the gnostic ones
You can tell the ones who know realities
But the ones who judge and deduce may complain
They may say: what is beyond the sky and earth?
Who are humans, wild and tame animals?
You the intellectual, you asked correctly
I tell you the answer if you accept it
Hamoon, sea, mount and the heaven
The angel, human, devil and the king
Everything is less than him
Even his name is the entire universe
Sea is much greater than the wave
Sun is much higher than us
But the people of material wouldn’t understand that
The people of spirituality understand
If there exists sun, particle is nothing
If there exist seven seas, one drop is nothing
If the great king wants
He can take the universe to the land of the dead
Saadi

Love and gnostics are two wings of a bird called praising and this beautiful bird can fly beyond and to the friend’s world by passing through the horizons of thought and wisdom. More expanded the wings, deeper the flight. Therefore, it is recommended to study the basics of gnostics and love in details not to doubt about anything in future. Ask for help from God. Ask God to make you ready to understand more and more reality and identification and love and gnostics. This is the way to have the bird’s wings expanded. May god fill our heart with his affection and kindness. Amine

I can explain love a lot
But if I fall in love I can say nothing
Although words may shred lights
Love without explaining words is clearer
As the pen was fast finishing writing
Separated into pieces as it came to love
As the pen wanted to describe this situation
Pen broke and the paper cut into pieces
Wisdom is stuck in mud when describing it
Love can tell about love and loving
Sun is the reason for the sun
If you can fall in love don’t leave it
Mowlana