“O Lovers: The time of union has come!” I fell in love with the beauty of this piece when Seyyed Mohammad Jaberi, the brilliant daf player who often joins me in performances, introduced me to a recording of it by the renowned musician Payam Azizi. I chose to arrange it using lyrics from the Divan-i Shams by Rumi, although the original piece has lyrics by Shaykh Abdul Rahman Khales of the Qadiriyyah-Talabani Sufi order of Kirkuk, Iraq. His poetry is part of the classical Islamic tradition of ecst