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In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. A motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music.

Mawl�n� Jal�l ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 - 1273 C.E.), known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a mystical thirteenth century Persian Sufi poet, jurist, and theologian. His first name Jalalu'ddin has the meaning Majesty of Religion. Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path of love and spiritual understanding. His ecstatic and wondrous spiritual writings left a lasting impression on Sufism, the mystical practice of Islam. His songs expressed the pain of being separated from the Beloved (Allah/God) and the joy of union with Him.