Sema or Sama "Listening" to recited poetry, with/without musical accompaniment - musical and ecstatic remembrance of God.

Rumi (1207-1273) (Divan, no. 1296) Come to me, for you are the soul of the soul of the soul of listening Come -- you are the cypress striding in the garden of listening. Come -- there has never been, nor will there be, anyone like you Come -- not even the eyes of listening have seen anyone like you Come -- the fountain of the sun lies beneath your shadow You hold a thousand Venuses in the heaven of listening Even though the roof of heaven's seventh plane is high, The ladder of listening goes much higher than that Listening is thanking you, with a hundred eloquent tongues I will only say some brief points in the language of listening When atoms' embraces are filled by rays of the sun, All enter into the dance, without the noise of listening When love puts his hand on my shoulder, what can I do? I pull him in the corner, as if in the midst of listening Listening recites your praises, both by day and night The light of your face gives nobility to the place of listening You are beyond both worlds when you enter listening This world of listening is beyond both worlds We are stomping our feet on anything that is not him Why? That's the condition, in the exam of love. God belongs to you, and you belong to God Listening belongs to you, and you belong to listening Come -- for Shams-i Tabrizi is the very form of love We all enter into dancing in the midst of listening.

"On Listening to Music,"  from The Treatise on Holiness by Ruzbihan Baqli The one who seeks to listen to music should have veins that are purified of base desires and filled with light from purity of devotion. He should be present and listening in the divine presence with his very soul, in order to be far from the temptation of the carnal soul in listening to music--and this is not guaranteed except for those who are strong in love. For listening to music is God's listening to music; it is from God, by God, in God, and with God. If one makes any of these relationships with something other than God, he is an infidel, he has lost the way, and he has not drunk the wine of union while listening to music. From of the beginning of spiritual stations to their end, there are one hundred thousand stations, in each of which there are a million kinds of listening to music. In each kind of listening to music, a million qualities enter, such as transformation and reproach, separation and union, nearness and distance, burning and agitation, hunger and thirst, fear and hope, warning and sighs, raving and wonderment, purity and chastity, servanthood and lordship. If even one of these qualities reached the souls of all the ascetics of the world, their souls would spontaneously leave them. Sometimes God says, "You are me," and sometimes he says, "I am you." Sometimes God makes him subsist in annihilation, and sometimes he annihilates him in subsistence. Sometimes God pulls him, and sometimes he gives him rest in intimacy. Sometimes God wounds him with the arrows of unity, and sometimes he makes his soul live by clothing it in divinity. Sometimes God listens, sometimes he quotes, and sometimes he recites. Sometimes God casts him into pure servanthood, and sometimes he casts him into the essence of lordship. Sometimes God intoxicates him with beauty, and sometimes he abases him with majesty. Sometimes God brings him to the desert, sometimes he gives him stability, and sometimes he gives him rapture. Sometimes God seizes his soul with the religion of music, and sometimes he seats him in royal authority on the celestial vault of divine greatness, with the penetrating grip of the endless light of the dawnings of unity. Sometimes God lets him fly in the air of pre-eternity with the secret of holiness, and sometimes he clips the wings of concentration with the scissors of transcendence in the atmosphere of his identity.

Kherqeh - a cloak of devotion with continuous attention to truth and reality, a cloak of divine attributes and names.

Zikr - Silent or vocal recollection of the names of the Merciful Creator. This is the continuous, selfless remembrance of God, the nonexistence of the Seeker before the Beloved, the surrender of belief in and attachment to one's own limited existence, the giving up of belief in reality other than God.

Faqr - spiritual poverty