Yunus Emre is a great figure (poet), who’s purpose in the world is atonement and take upon himself the moral architecture of Anatolia. This great figure, a unique genius, had been succeeded to expalin Anatolian people, their own values by using their own language. Yunus Emre, as a sufi poet, had been succeeded in Turkish with an extremely difficult to achieve degree. He had preferred Turkish to Arabic and Persian to explain the deep meaning of truth, even though Arabic and Persian referred languages in his age.were the p Yunus Emre, understanding the universe by his sufi poet sensitivity, according to him the most important fact is human being. He thinks that the world is created for human beings and he touches on, unique place of human being in the universe as a leading theme in his full of love lines. According to Yunus Emre, human is the only entity which can apperceive the God and know him well, between all creations by God. Therefore the priority thing for a human is, to know himself because of him creation as a “caliph” by the God. It is impossible to know himself before know the God well. Human, as caliph of Allah on earth is the ideal entity, who had been created with the potential of discretion. As a perfect summary of the world, human has to understand him humaneness and ripen to become aware of excellence in creation.
Yunus Emre, sufism, divan, human.
Author : | Ahmet DOĞAN |
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Number of pages: | 829-839 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.5851 |
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