There are Hundreds of Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground (SSAA)

SSAA (div.), Chime

Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, known to the Western world as Rumi, lived in what is now Turkey during the thirteenth century. His followers founded the Mevlevi order of Islam (the “whirling dervishes”) based on his teachings, and he became one of the greatest and most widely read of Islamic mystic poets. The focus of his thought and writings concerns tawheed, or unity with the divine, and the central religious rite of the Mevlevi involved the use of music, poetry, and dancing to manifest this unity.

I think of this poem as an exhortation against inattentiveness and uninspired routine, and the musical setting is a kind of spiritual exercise that makes every word of the poem an object for meditative contemplation.