Whirling Dervish: The mystical dance of the Sufis: Ora and Ihab Balha at TEDxJaffa 

If you got a body you will feel dizzy doing this but if you have soul you'll move till infinity.

Beautiful, it brings me to tears. With all the hate and division in the world right now we need more of this. More love. More unity. More understanding. To realize that we are all one. We are brothers and sisters in one human race. Sending love to all of you.

I had the very great privilege of hosting Ihab and Ora Balha and their family at the Shalom Festival Edinburgh. 2017. I was blown away by the grace and transcendent beauty of Ora’s Sufi dancing and I have been a devotee ever since.

In response to the statements that this is "just a performance": allowing others to witness the nakedness of the soul that is worship, or prayer, or meditation may appear to be 'performance.' It is much more. It is invitation; it is instruction; it is a door, opening for others; it is love; it is divine love. Whether or not one agrees with the beliefs and doctrines of those who are so open, the beauty of another's spirituality should be respected. I know little to nothing of Sufi beliefs; I know what it is to worship publicly. May the day come soon when how we worship, when whom or what we worship, is far less important than the simple fact that we do worship, and in that commonality, may we find peace for humankind.

It bring me tears. I watched it after reading Rumis poets and about sufis and their mysterious dance. Every move has a meaning and the whole dance has a point. Its like meditation. Rumi said that he found God in his drunkenness and dizziness.

The galaxies spin, the solar system spins, the earth spins, our molicules and atoms have fields that spin, children spin. Just feels right sometimes.

Finally I found a whirling video that honors and includes women in this practice. Thank you! 💛

What kind of level she must be on for spinning to such an extent where she had lost connection to the world and somewhere more soothing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Had so much anger in my heart from recent events. As soon as I saw you with your hands on your hearts, that all dissipated. I am saving this video, to help me get back to inner peace as needed in 2021. Very grateful for you.

This is so very beautiful. The music is beyond anything I've ever experienced. It's like another dimension of soul that I didn't know existed.

This video is Sufi mysticism demonstrated elegantly in its connection with the body and soul through whirling, which is a form of meditation to seek the ultimate truth of the universe.

came here as nondenomination at all, interested in Islamic music, Australian guy bought up Anglican, into jazz and hiphop, this music and performance is one of the most intensely spiritual things I've ever seen

Abruptly I am in tears watching them both even only whirling. It's spiritual.

It's not a dance , it actually is a form of meditation ....I wonder how they don't get dizzy doing this

"Say (O Muhammad): Come, I will recite unto you that which your Lord had made sacred duty for you: that you ascribe nothing as partner unto Him and that you do good to parents, and that you slay(kill) not your children because of poverty -- We provide for you and for them -- and that you draw not near to immorality whether opened or concealed. And that you kill not a life which Allah had made sacred , except in the course of justice. This He had commanded you , in order that , you may reason" [Quran- Surah Al Anam, Verse152]

I had an experience of swirling with my eyes closed, on my bed today. I was drawn to this video for several days now. And it is my absolute favourite on youtube. I feel my body is made of love 💚

im in tears.... especially as ive just finished reading elif shafak's 40 rules of love. so beautiful and so sad ... . 😥😥

Islam is such a beautiful divine religion. Particularly the religion of Prophet Mohammad and his household. You can feel this joy & bliss without dancing and music.

This touched my soul and made me weep tears of joy. So beautiful.

Muslims man.....they've captured the essence & power of what it means to be in the presence

What a beautiful whole mind, body and the soul’s expression of joy. This can bring healing on so many levels.

most gracious whirl i have seen to date....and I've seen a LOT! Well done Ora...!

I thank God for bringing Rumi and Sufism into my life.

Mesmerizing. As if she was really connected to Divine Presence, getting his sublime blessing and scattering it mercifully like the rain to humankind. The man did not have a headscarf. Too beautiful to be covered, perhaps he thought. Though, only to Divine Being belongs the complete beauty. This is what I know from the teachings of mystics.

I love sufi music first time I saw sufi dance😝😍 She is dancing in pure Bliss. It's better to love God. You stay so happy 😊 No matter how many people doing the same thing you can do it in ur own way. I loved it superb 👏 💯

Grounded and ethereal at the same time. Beautiful!

One of the interesting parts of this "whirling" is that they always keep their left foot on the ground at all times. They may shift from heel to toe but they always spin on their left foot. From my understanding, this is how they stay grounded and connected to God, through the Earth with their foot, and His creation (the Earth).

Dancing is how i also love to connect to the Divine Source, as i offer up my worship, prayers and gratitude to Allah.

People saying Ora and Ihab are not Muslims. That's not really for anyone else to decide, except them and Allah, is it? Worry about yourselves.

It seems the message is, how connected we can be to each other with just a dance, religious or no religion It makes you appreciate life regardless. Imagine, what our ancestors went through, so we all could enjoy this.

so beautiful... sometimes the great speech was never being spoken through worldly languages, it's being spoken through soul language!

Beautiful soul , music, dance and meditation. So much elegance ! God's blessings 🙏🙏🙏

mama earth whirling and whirling, giving and giving and the moon forever captured by her beauty

Sufi Islam had always been the most expressionistic school of Islam for me

Know Sufism (Sufi) has two pillars, namely istiqamah with Allah SWT and harmony with His creatures. Thus whoever istiqamah with Allah SWT, behaves well towards others, and socializes with them politely, then he is a Sufi - Al-Ghazali

wow!...loved it...there were no words..still so much grace....and beauty...absolute pleasure...loved it

Such divine elegance and love. It brings me to tears

The way it reflects the lov for Almighty ❤️❤️ I am imaging the moment when Shams of Tibrez nd Mawlana did it💜💜💜

It really is just beautiful to watch, it makes me feel peaceful.

The most beautiful dance ever. Watching this I felt love and light in my heart.

I cried Idk why but I cried... Love the old Turkish 🇹🇷 culture love from 🇵🇰 🇳🇱 ❤️❤️❤️

So soothing..... I really want to experience this sort of ecstasy

This is called Trance-Meditation. It shows a deep level of being where one can tap into the inner-stillness of the spirit and bypass the confines of mind/body. In trance you are no longer in control, god is in control, so to speak. When this occurs, you rest while god heals you. Simplest way i can put it.

لحظة توق الانسان الى الانعتاق من قيود جسده من اسر الحياة من حبال الشهوات والنزعات الى الشماء الى الذات العلية توق الى هناك حيث نمضي بلا كدر ولا وجل ولا خوف ولا قلق حسبك انك مع ربك الذي برأك وخلقك يد الى السماء تستمد واخرى نحو الارض تفيض من مواجيد العلى الجالس انت والراقصة نفسك حنينها مواجيدها توقها شكرا على اللحظة الروحية من هذه اللوحة البديعة كنت استمع واشاهد وروحي تتلذذ بتلك المعاني البديعة في رقصة بديعة مشرقة تكاد تنبض بكل شيء

This woman is in love with her Rabb-her Lord, her God. Beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Oh, dearest Ora and Ihab.Thank you for your many blessings. Ya Mevlana. May it be love.

Me who was constantly watching her moves. My heads going out of mind, how she does it with beautiful pace and rhythm. 💚🖤❤

I hope I one day reach that level of spirituality. I am identifying myself as a sufi Muslim nonetheless

Praying to the Almighty and worshipping him is beautiful and out of this world. Allaho Akbar!

I was half expecting her to knock down the TEDx letters the whole time. Not sure if disappointed.

I thank God, to bring rumi, shams and sufism into my soul, and I thank God to bring Himself in me ...al hem dullilah♥️🍁.

Prostration must be always to the creator ALLAH S.W.T

I as a general rule, I usually feel extremely cynical towards religion, mysticism, prayer, and meditation. That just changed. Simple, yet hauntingly beautiful. So humble, yet so powerful.

Thank you, a Beautiful dance.

there is One God but different ways to Him for example Im Christian ,some in Muslim, some is Jewish if you are good man, and you love God, you will take salvation

BeaUTIFUlly meditative. Thank you

This is so sacred. Thank you God for showing me such a divine method for calling in the Holy Spirit. I'd love to visit Arabian countries and enjoy their rich music, dance, sacred visual art... It is all so captivating

The 40 rules of love brought me here😂🖤

Best speech ever on tedtalk

The love of God make one in deep trance, hand toward the sky is about love of absolute. Alhamdulillah

To negative remarks for and against Sufism. It is a name without defining it as a name but once again we are doing just that. Sufism was not meant to be labeled as it means not associate (shirk) anything with Allah Swt. Sufism and orthodox come together to balance from being introvert to extrovert. Every religion has inner development and outer. Until one reads and gets on the path one should not question ones faith and religion. Who is a Muslim who is non is simply aspect of fix and non. Sufis do not abandon the Quran or Sunnah, Prayers, giving and being active in their community. It is simply a method to achieved higher concentration of being a true Being with the command of Allah Swt. I’m the process of the Sufi path some get misguided because they abandon the teachings of their Sheikh and become sheikhs themselves. One should not rely only on Sufi literature as they may misinterpret as most see only what they want to see in any literature. The Quran is the word of Allah Swt and it should not be minimized but rather glorified as the 99 names of Allah Swt does. Ghazalli, ibn Arabi both are prescribed reads even though they are conflicting to the soul till the soul is balanced by it. For 39 years I prayed mechanically as do animals according to their needs. If one follows they path it comes back in full circle. I first encourage you to have strong foundation in Islam before you start on the path of Sufism. The dance before us simply to achieve a heightened state of consciousness, it is very similar to smoking pot or 5 meO DMT. There is no need to destroy your body with substance or be addicted to opium of any sort there are processes to achieve it with your own body as it’s already in you, all that is needed is finding it in your self: for that there are 150 different orders of Sufism, hence one should not limit one way to have true and profound abilities to connect on higher levels. What they will discover is part of the beautiful journey based on their way of seeing it. Allah Swt sees all, I’m sure if your intention is to get closer to Allah Swt the All Merciful will have his mercy on you. To Allah belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is the presence of Allah. For Allah is all-Pervading, all-Knowing. Quran 2:115

Molana Room R.A sign of peace , one and palm taking from sky and other hand distributed

thank you for posting this.

Can't believe how can Someone can do this soooo long! It's suprised me!

From the tiniest unseen atom which is revolving, the sun revolving, the moon revolving, the earth revolving, all the planets revolving, blackholes revolving, all the galaxies revolving, which is certainly a form of non stop worship towards their creator, think abount it and look at us the humans revolving around the holy Ka'aba at Makkah. Is this the reason why Sufi's whirl out of love towards their creator ?

Thought I do not agree with everything with many sufi orders. Saying than I can also say, I see nothing here that goes against Islam.. Sufism is part of Islam just as same as for Salafism is also part of Islam. Doesn't matter If u claim Sunni, Shia or Ibadi.. Everything starts with intention. So have good intention and help humanity, transcend!!

Wow.. so blissful experience

I love Hazrat Molana Rumi R.a

“Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.” Tanpa cinta, semua ibadah adalah beban, semua tarian adalah tugas, semua musik hanyalah kebisingan. ~ Rumi ❤️ Love & Peace ❤️

Beyond beauty 💚

The Music is oh so.... beautiful.

This is how Matter is Given form

spirals are found all over Nature...:)

9:51 The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him ) said, “Do not do that. If I were to command anyone to prostrate to anyone other than Allah, I would have commanded women to prostrate to their husbands. By the One in Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, no woman can fulfil her duty towards Allah until she fulfils her duty towards her husband.”

May God almighty bring peace through them in every project they do in favour of mankind.

Does anyone know the name of the song or the artist whose music is playing?

This is so exquisitely magical it makes the heart weep. And the British had the gall to attack these people. The sheer Atrocious barbarism of human drunkards & soulless crocks.

Im seeing alot of comment of people saying "Sufism is not islam" and trying like link this twirl with your own beliefs "Ying yang" or "buddhism" and saying Rumi wasn't a muslim? Why can't you just enjoy this? Does it hurt if this is linked with spiritual islam? Although the order of Sufism was created by Baha-ud-Din Naqshband, you can say it originally came from Prophet Muhammad (saw), he didn't need to say sufism, all it means is to be spiritually close to Allah (God) and alone with him free from any nafs (desires) of this world, in the Poems of Rumi he explains the souls pain because of the seperation (From God) the soul is continuously grieving to become close to the creator again. Heard of Hasan al basri? He was around shortly after Muhammad (saw) passed away, he was known to be a muslim mystic alot of people judge sufism. The wahabi sect of islam do not believe any of this stuff idk why. The twirling dervish was originally founded by Rumi as a source of meditation to be free from this world temporarily, the Mevlevi Order was founded by Rumi's followers, they were muslim. The Mevlevi order was a muslim organisation, if Rumi wasn't muslim how did his followers create a muslim Mevlevi organisation?

This is a bid'ah and not apart of Islam, don't think is apart of the religion.

5:12 My favorite part!!!🤩❤️

جميييل جدا ان الموسيقى الصوفية الروحانية وصلت لتيد اكس

❤So beautiful and peaceful to watch thank you. what a great couple ❤ I loved how I felt connected to the love

that was simply AMAZING.

holy holy holy...Blessed...so mystical ...eternal

This Musik sofi...give my Power und relaxing....👏👏👍

This symbolize universe

Just watch sufi dance in Malayalam movie soofiyum sujathayum. Amazing💖

Salah (prayer) Quran and masnoon zikr are best way to be closer to God and keep the worldy thoughts away. Stick to Sunnah its the best way

Why is this the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!

This accomplished what, exactly? All these comments about mystery and deep meaning are nonsense.

That's the most beautiful wisdom 💐😇💯👌

"And they are not commanded except to worship Allah, keeping religion pure for him only, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer(5 times a day) and to give charity to poor(zakat). And that is the correct religion." ------[Quran Surah Bayyinah , Verse 5]

dont they feel dizzy!!???

Did the prophet twirl around for 20 minutes? If you think so please tell me why and what proof there is that he did it.

Please can someone tell me what this piece of music is. JZK Derweshi

I was so moved by this.

am out of words 😍

2020 Anyone ?

An angel on earth dancing with the love of God!

Beautiful! ♥️