USA Volume 1

Side 1: Dervish Dances: Introductory Bismillah - In the name of the One, Compassionate & Merciful.  As-salaam Aleikum Greeting Dance - Peace be with you. Alhamdulillah Round - Everything Praiseworthy belongs to the One. As-Salaam Aleikum Duet. Divine Attributes Walks -Ya Hayyo Ya Qayoom - O Universal Energy, O Persisting Form; Ya Azim - O Most High; Ya Fattah - O Opener of the Way. Wazifa Canon - La Illaha Illa 'Llahu  (There is no reality but God). Iskh Allah Mahbud Lillah - (God is in all love, as well as Lover and Beloved) Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim (O Birth of Compassion, O Birth of Mercy  both derived from the Arabic root for "womb"); Subhan Allah (Glory to the Pure Oneness) Alhamdulillah (All praiseworthiness is in God) Allaho Akbar (In the One is all strength - peace is power). Allaho Akbar Duet. Ya Azim (using Islamic and Christian sacred phrases). Ya Hayy Ya Haqq Dance - O Life Force, O Truth of Embodiment). Christian: 'Tis the Gift to be Simple (arranged from the traditional Shaker melody).  Dervish: Temple Song (words from an experience of effacement in the divine by Hazrat Inayat Khan). Dervish Bismillah Dance. Dervish Zikr. Sikh: Sat Nam Dance - There is one God, whose name is Truth, great is His/Her indescribable wisdom. Hindu: Ram Nam Snake Dance (with voice of Murshid Samuel Lewis) - To, God, both personal & impersonal, both truth and power, be all victory.  Ramnam Melody. Melodic Ram Nam Dance. Universal: Benediction Dance. (From a blessing of Hazrat lnayat Khan).
Side 2: Universal: Universal Worship Dance & Round (invoking the Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Hebrew, Christian & Islamic traditions) Buddhist:Kwan Zeon Bosai (Korean Homage to Kwan Yin). Namo Amida Butsu (Buddha of Infinite Light & Compassion). Dervish: Bismillah, Ya Fattah Dance & Round - Beginning with Oneness - O Opener!  Hebrew, Christian, Islamic: God of Beauty Round (dedicated to peace in the Middle East). Christian: What Wondrous Love (arranged from the traditional Shaker melody). Dervish: Subhan Allah  - God is purity - all that is unmixed in effect. Ya Az'm Round Dance (from the Persian dervish greeting: "how wonderfully does God manifest to me through you!"). Cycle of Dervish Dances  (adaptation of Egyptian Sufi practices by Murshid Samuel Lewis). Allah Unison Chant. Ya Hayy Ya Haqq. Responsive Chant. Hymn to the Prophet (a Love - Song to Prophet Mohammed - "Our prayers and wishes for peace be with and from you, O Messenger, O Beloved of God") Dervish Cycle. Ya Jamil - O Divine Beauty. Christian, Islamic: Jesus is Our Sun.  Hebrew: Ya-Hu-Weh Chant.  Shalom Aleichem - Peace be with you. Dervish: Kalama Dance with Counterpoint (Affirmation of divine unity and an invocation of Mohammed as an embodiment of the perfection of humanity). Free Allah.