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Jelāl once met a Turk in Qonya, who was selling fox-skins in the market, and crying them: “Dilku! Dilku!” (Fox! Fox! in Turkish.)

Jelāl immediately began to parody his cry, calling out in Persian: “Dil kū! Dil kū!” (Heart, where art thou?) At the same time he broke out into one of his holy waltzes of ecstasy.

In the time of Sultan Veled (A.D. 1284-1312), a young man, of the descendants of the Prophet, and son of the guardian of the holy tomb of Muhammed at Medīna, came to Qonya with a company of his fellow-descendants, belonging to that city. He was presented to Sultan Veled, and became his disciple.

He wore a most singular head-dress. One end of his turban hung down in front to below his navel; while the other end was formed into the sheker-āvīz19 of the Mevlevī dervishes.

When they had become somewhat intimate, Sultan Veled asked him how it happened that he wore the sheker-āvīz of the Mevlevis, when nobody else but those dervishes wear it, in imitation of their founder, Jelāl.