Haktır Allahım Muhammed Mahım

Peace, one and all…

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Haktır Allahım Muhammed mahım
Ali’dir şahım efendim Allah eyvallah

Fatıma Zehra Hatice Kübra
Nuri kibriya efendim Allah eyvallah

Şüpeyrü Şeper Abidin server
Bakırü Cafer efendim Allah eyvallah

Musâyi Kazım Rıza imamım
Takiyüddaim efendim Allah eyvallah

Nakidir iman Askeridir can
Mehdii devran efendim Allah eyvallah

Çehor deh masum şehidan mazlum
Cümlesi malum efendim Allah eyvallah

Aşka burhanım Sırrı Rahmanım
Derde dermanım efendim Allah…

There You Are

Peace, one and all…

I hide Your beauty in my eye;
Whatever I look at,
There You are.

I hide Your presence in my heart;
How could a stranger live there?
There You are.

You are my foundation and my all;
My intimate one and the word on my tongue;
You bring the greeting from my darling one;
Within that greeting,
There You are.

All the blossoms and tender leaves
They hide their beauty in reds and greens
In night’s darkness and the dawn’s first beams.
As each one awakens,
There You are.

You are the one who made creation,
who gave life and strength to every being.
There is no ending except for You
I believe and accept what I am seeing:
There You are.

The flute moans ‘Huuu’ in ecstasy
The waves are roaring, the seas are rushing,
The sun appears to veil the stars
In its rays’ vast shining,
There You are.

You are the one who makes Veysel speak;
You are the tree and I am your leaf.
The unconscious fly right by what they seek.
In both the fruit and seed,
There You are.

Asik Veysel, translated by Jennifer Ferrarro and Latif Bolat

The Heart is a City

Peace, one and all…

‘The heart is a city which encompasses whatever the Real (may He be praised and exalted) created from the heavenly throne downward, be it large or small, and there are two rulers in this city: one is godly (rahmani), the other is satanic.  The godly ruler is called intellect (aql), his regent is faith and his superintendent is poverty.

On the right flap of the heart there are seven castles.  In charge of each castle the Real (may He be praised and exalted) placed a constable (dizdar) and the names of these constables are known one by one:

The name of the first constable is knowledge.
The name of the second constable is munificence.
The name of the third constable is reserve.
The name of the fourth constable is patience.
The name of the fifth constable is abstinence.
The name of the sixth constable is trepidation.
The name of the seventh constable is good manners.

Each constable has one hundred thousand communities, and each community has one hundred thousand soldiers and there are all protectors of faith’.
(Hz. Haji Bektash Veli, Quddus Allahi sirruhu)