Derviş Edna (1878-1928), Alevi minstrel of Karahisar in Çorum and disciple of Kul Fakir of Merzifon: his life, ties to Amasya and forty-two poems.
Derviş Edna (1878-1928), Alevi minstrel of Karahisar in Çorum: his devotion to Kul Fakir of Merzifon, his legends, the Akkubbe tomb and forty collected deyiş.
Derviş Edna's nefes likening his spiritual guide to a rose in bloom, to Hür in paradise and to a pir come from Khorasan: a eulogy built on light, wine and the Twelve Imams.
Derviş Edna's nefes on the journey of a dervish who "lost his lamb": the scale of judgement, the twelve gates, and the testament of an âşık who "reads the white, not the black".
Derviş Edna's nefes on his devotion to the path of the Friend: the waist girded on the Day of Elest, the rival's dagger and the belief in changing "a thousand and one garments".
Derviş Edna's seven-syllable poem of counsel: the refrain "whoever hurts, hurts himself", the lure of worldly goods, and a soul whose "turn will come again".
Derviş Edna's nefes with the refrain "one Fatiha and three İhlâs": a dervish seeking the essence of the Qur'an in its letters, the ninety thousand words and the verses of the Fatiha.
Derviş Edna's farewell nefes with the refrain "let us go, farewell, brothers": the swift horse of love, those who keep their secret, and the Friend who waits beyond.
Derviş Edna's nine-quatrain nefes on the end of time: the world reborn seven times, the coming of the Mahdi, the sun a mile above, the scale of judgement and the Twelve Imams.
Derviş Edna's nefes of devotion, "if they gave me the world I would not part from you": the pir who kneaded his clay, the hazel-eyed beauty, the coffin on a white camel.
Derviş Edna's three-quatrain nefes of separation: a letter he had written for him, the wound growing in his breast, and a beloved who may or may not come to his grave.
Derviş Edna's eight-syllable nefes: a city of light with four gates, seven thrones and three hundred and sixty-six roads, which the dervish at last finds within the human being.
Derviş Edna's nefes portraying the world as an inn and man as a guest in it: the substance set on the Day of Elest, the master's counsel and the account to be given in the grave.
Derviş Edna's nefes that asks "did you see, did you know": a grieving heart that cannot settle on every flower, the community of the saved, and a dervish whose home is the body.
Derviş Edna's lament and plea to Imam Hüseyin: blood boiling at Karbala, Mother Fadime's grief, Şimir's malice and the refrain "Imam Hüseyin must make us rejoice".
Derviş Edna's eight-syllable nefes "Düldül'ün yeli mi ola": a wind blowing from divine power, the tanbur of fellowship, the coming of the Mahdi, and his answer to those who call him mad.
Derviş Edna's nefes naming a beloved of Pîrî Baba's line, Kul Fakir and the year 1330 (1911-1912): the square of the Forty, the Burak and a soul that falls into the mother's womb.
Derviş Edna's nefes on the joy of visiting his pir: a plea to Balım Sultan, Ali as master of the realm, a waist girded from Kızıl Deli and a pledge reaching back to Elest.
Derviş Edna's poem of counsel, "come, take my counsel, brother": the mill that carried water will not turn, Ali's secret, the Fatiha and Yasin, the companion death reveals.
Derviş Edna's four-quatrain nefes of repentance: faith in God's precepts, standing firm in goodness, and the refrain "whoever keeps the sultan in his heart is not hurt".
Derviş Edna's nefes on the order of the cem: the guide as shepherd and the seeker as sheep, the disciple who hides his sin, a warning against gossip, and the age of the Antichrist.
Derviş Edna's Karbala lament: the army of unbelief rank on rank, Hür crossing to Hüseyin's side, the women carried off to Damascus, seventy-three wounds, and "think of Karbala, be patient".
Derviş Edna's eight-syllable düvaz-ı imam: the names of the Twelve Imams, the blood of Karbala, Selman's bowl at the assembly of the Forty, and the belief that all came from one point.
Derviş Edna's plea for help with the refrain "do not make your servant weep, forgive him for God's sake": a visit made step by step, a wound awaiting balm, a dervish at the Friend's door.
Derviş Edna's nefes of counsel with the refrain "it seems it does not": God who gives to poor and rich, the carrion of the world, the blind who cannot lead the blind, and Nimrod who hoards.
Derviş Edna's nefes with the redif "praise be to God": the morsel of divine power from the rose-faced pir, the book opened, the lesson given and the door of eternal knowledge.
Derviş Edna's nefes counselling patience in a corrupt age: the people of truth in hiding, honesty slandered, the tyrant's fall and a fate that "opens at thirty-three".
Derviş Edna's nefes on meeting his pir in the month of Muharrem: a face kneaded with light, the cloak and crown, the hand that gives out portions, and Ali seen at the fount of Kevser.
Derviş Edna's plea for help composed in 1327 (1909-1910): a world run wild, jackals lined along the road of the Family of the Prophet, the Hünkâr's banner and "come, my lion Ali".
Derviş Edna's nefes opening with three rose trees in paradise: turtle-doves and the nightingale, locked doors, accounts rendered, and the wait for the Mahdi.
Derviş Edna's nefes of counsel with the redif "brings to nothing": a tongue silent before the rival, tyranny turning on itself, pride and dishonest gain.
Derviş Edna's nefes "my city is Muhammad, my market is Ali": Mecnun wandering for Leyla, the writing on the brow, and grapes pressed in the square of the Forty.
Derviş Edna's nefes of devotion to his guide Kul Fakir: "my tongue speaks by your command", a breast fired in love's forge, a dervish who reached his beloved like Selman.
Derviş Edna's nefes of counsel addressed to the saints: many pains and one physician, the ledger of deeds opened, the seven hells, the seven kings of the self and an order set from eternity.
Derviş Edna's nefes on meeting his guide on the fifteenth of the spring month: the apple divided in four, the words "the heart is in the heart" and the grief of parting.
Derviş Edna's nefes stirred by a word from the "felicitous Hünkâr": being a Kamber before the sultan, Ahmed-i Gazi who will set the world right, the coming Mahdi and Zülfikar.
Derviş Edna's nefes "in this present world it is better to be mute": keeping one's secret from the people of the age, sharing the state of the saints, and the hidden people of truth.
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