A Heideggerian Shepherd Of Being

The thoroughly modern Dervish is a Heideggerian shepherd of being whose dignity rests on being called by being itself to preserve its truth.

And what is the truth of being?

"Being is the most empty and yet fecund, the most common and yet unique, the most intelligible and yet hidden, the most worn-out and yet the source of every being, the most relied upon and yet an abyss, the most said and yet silent, the most forgotten and yet recollection itself (recollecting us into and towards beings), the greatest constraint and yet liberating. In an attempt to ward off the almost inextirpable habit of representing being as something standing somewhere for itself and occasionally confronting human beings, Heidegger crosses out 'being' and notes that the four points of the cross refer to the four regions of the fourfold" [i.e., earth, sky, mortals, divinities].

--Dahlstrom, THD, 34-35.

The Dervish is therefore not concerned with God; God can take care of him/her/it-self. Instead, the Dervish is concerned with the two-fold nature of the four regions of the fourfold: in their coming to presence and passing into absence. The Dervish is ibn-al-waqt ("offspring of the present moment").