The mystical branch of Islam known as Sufism preaches tolerance, peace, and pluralism while also promoting music as a means of developing one's connection to the Creator. Sufi music and dance reproduce the cosmological forces of revolution, vibration, rhythm, and harmony and are important to the Sufi religion's worship. As a Divine Art, it mimics the breath and heartbeat cycles of life. At the height of the euphoric state, which is induced by rhythmic dancing, spinning, and singing of religious texts, the participant is more spiritually closer to God. This is done in order to set up the…