He asserted that we can have meaningful leisure rather than destructive unemployment, and that we do not need a whirling dervish economy dependent on compulsive consumption.

As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

One day, the protagonists seek out a dervish known as a great philosopher of the land.

The city was part of the Dervish State until 1921, when it was incorporated into the former British Somaliland protectorate.

Behold, the storm of Yahweh, his wrath, has gone forth. Yes, a whirling storm. It shall burst on the head of the wicked.

The dervish describes human beings as mice on a ship sent by a king to Egypt their comfort does not matter to the king.

It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

Santa Claus was a Turkish Dervish who in the middle ages traveled through Central and Northern Europe, giving gifts to children and claiming to be the re incarnation of Greek St. Nicholas, who preached in the fourth century.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.