Sama: it means listening, it has been a sacred practise among Sufis. It's a form of prayer & meditation by listening to music and/or poetry while a dervish intends to travel inward selflessly, to his/her core while remembering the One. It is practised in different forms among Sufis, sometimes seated sometimes whirling.
Rumi says:
"When you enter in Sama, you then leave both these worlds
For outside these two worlds there lies the universe, endless, of whirling.
Whatever there is, is only Hu (the One) . . .
What can I do when Love appears and puts its claw round my neck?
I grasp it, take it to my breast, and drag it into the whirling!
And when the blossom of the motes is filled with the glow of the sun, they enter the Sama whirling . . . "
- M. Rumi, Divan e Shams, ghazal 1295 May it be Love