The World of Rumi: Come to Life - Al-Mahya. Part 2

Director: Shems Friedlander | Producer: Shems Friedlander<br />Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2007 | Story Teller's Country: Egypt<br /><br />Synopsis: Once a year in the middle of the month of Shabban “mureeds” of the Demerdache Khalwati Sufi Order in Cairo go into small cells and make a spiritual retreat which has been a tradition in this order for over five hundred years. Shems Friedlander is the first person to be allowed to film this secret and sacred ceremony. During the “khalwa” the mureed prays, fasts (as in the month of Ramadan), is silent, remains in seclusion, invokes the name of Allah, meditates, and maintains a state of ritual purity.