My interest in Sufism made me very friendly with the dervishes. I learned to love the sweetness of their nature and the innate perfume of their manner of using music as the food of the soul.
I began at first to imitate their habits and methods, and spent a few hours in silence every day.
Once in a dream I saw a great gathering of prophets, saints, and sages, all clad in their Sufi garments, rejoicing in the Sama, or music of the dervishes. I was absorbed into their blissful state of ecstasy, and when I was aroused I still felt the exultation my vision and brought to me.
After this I heard continually, waking or sleeping, an unknown voice which cried to me, 'Allah ho Akbar!,' God is great!
--Chapter Five, Confessions of Inayat Khan, Volume XII