The Love For Ahl Al-Bayt In Nigari Divan

Mir Hamza Nigari was born in Karabakh in the 19th century and was a virtuous scholar and a love drunk mystic. Although he was a Khalidiyya sheikh of the Naqshbandi order, examining his poems in his divan, we see that he was not a cult fanatic. He lived in Amasya for a part of his restless life and after his death in Elazığ, his sanctified body was buried in Amasya upon his will. The Mosque of Shirvan was built in 1894 at where his tomb was and the tomb is currently in the burial chamber of the mosque. Examining the poems of Nigari, especially the influence of Fuzûlî is felt deeply. The way he chanted love reminds the enthusiastic chants of love by Fuzûlî. According to him, the purpose of creation was to love God, the Prophet and Ahl al-Bayt (People of the Lord). In his divan, verses including the love of Ahl al-Bayt are considerably vast. The fact that he viewed the love of Ahl al-Bayt as the purpose of creation can be considered the most important reason for this. But he did not only talk about the love of Ahl al-Bayt while he was handling this matter. At the same time, he sometimes heavily vilified the persons he characterized with words such as Marwanids, Kharijites, Sufyani and Yazidis, whom he thought were troubling the Ahl al-Bayt. Considered in this context, he used praise and satire together when speaking of the Ahl al-Bayt. While referring to the Ahl al-Bayt with praise, he vilified the people whom he thought was troubling them in a manner that could be called heavy. In our paper, we will examine the love of Ahl al-Bayt of Nigari in the Turkish divan literature with examples from his divan and try to reveal his style and attitude in this matter. Also, Why does Nigârî consider Ahl al-Bayt and he love for them so important? How does he handle Ahl al-Bayt in his poems? we will try to answer these questions in the frame of samples taken from the divan.

Keywords

Classical Turkish Literature, Mir Hamza Nigari, Turkish Divan, love of Ahl al-Bayt, Sufyani .