Sıdkî Baba (1865-1928), Bektashi poet trained at Hacıbektaş who settled in Harız near Merzifon in 1894: his life, pen names and deyiş.
Sıdkî Baba, Bektashi poet who served the çelebis Feyzullah and Cemaleddin at Hacıbektaş and settled in Harız near Merzifon in 1894: his life, pen names and deyiş.
Sıdkî Baba's love deyiş that opens with the candle and the moth: a lover ready for the gallows like Mansur, the cup of union, the cupbearer of the feast and a resolve made in sincerity.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş with the redif "eriştik şükür": a poem of thanks reaching from seven letters to one dot, alif and be, the opening of the book of truth and the two senses of Feyzullah.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of counsel with the redif "-maz imiş": tireless lovers, a bow strung to a true master, the court one cannot reach empty-handed, and the lamp lit from the Ahl al-Bayt.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of exile under the pen name Pervane: the cup of separation, eight months of longing, ordeals fulfilled and a young dervish asking his friends' blessing to return.
Sıdkî Baba's devriye: the soul issuing from the light of Muhammad and Ali, roaming as sea, rain, nightingale, Adam and Majnun, and arriving through the cem of the Forty at Hacı Bektaş.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş under the pen name Kul Pervane: a greeting from the beloved, the nightingale in the Friend's garden, the abdal's cloak and the cloak of reputation thrown off.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of thanks that sums up his life: the cup of love drunk in a dream in 1293, forty-seven years of service, Feyzullah Çelebi's favour and the name Sıdkı given by Cemaleddin.
Sıdkî Baba's love deyiş with the redif "beni": a beloved whose brows are the basmala, face the House of God and stature an alif, and an oath that only a coffin or exile could break.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of the pen name: a poem of devotion that tells the change from Pervane to Sıdkı as a moment of guidance, recalling the Hand of God, the ninety thousand words and Farhad.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş with the redif "yeter": entering the dervish life through the register of detachment, the cap, the earring and the belt, and the name Sıdkı earned in fourteen years.
Sıdkî Baba's short deyiş with the refrain "eğlenme tez gel": devotees awaiting a master gone abroad, burning breasts and a lover weeping like Jacob for his Joseph of Canaan.
Sıdkî Baba's semai with the refrain "Eller ne derse desinler": devotion to the çelebis Cemaleddin, Feyzullah and Hamdullah, who died in Amasya, and the çile fulfilled in 1308.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of counsel with the redif "kapısına": recognising the guide, standing at the dâr like Mansur, the four gates, Iblis who fled the prostration, and the Hünkâr's line.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of counsel built on proverb-like questions: secrets and the unmanly, gold and the miser, games with a lion and racing the Anka, an ethics of whom to avoid.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of praise with the redif "bakın": the sultan of the fair who comes to the gathering, a beauty whose eyes and face recite the suras and whose threshold is the Kaaba.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of devotion with the redif "senindir": Salman at the door, banners and sacrifices, kettledrum and reed flute, a master called pole of poles, and a life offered.
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş of welcome with the refrain "sen sefa geldin": a çelebi guest in whose face the 114 suras are hidden, who floods houses with light and is hailed as king of Khorasan.
Sıdkî Baba's declaration of the path with the redif "gözleriz": allegiance to the Hünkâr's line, Balım Sultan's secret, the light passed from loins to loins, the crow and the nightingale.
Sıdkî Baba's düvaz-ı imam: a poem that names the Twelve Imams in order from Hasan to the Mahdi and prays with the refrain "do not part us from the perfect human being".
Sıdkî Baba's deyiş with the refrain "bilmem ne haldir": winter and mist barring a dervish's road to the Friend, the heart's caravan that never left, and the passes of the Yıldız Mountain.
Sıdkî Baba's crane deyiş: it describes to the cranes a pilgrim road from Hamdullah's post in Amasya through Merzifon, Harız, Çorum, Bozok and Malya to Hacıbektaş.
Sıdkî Baba's Karbala elegy: Hüseyin's blood flowing in the desert, Hürr who first opened the field, the seventy-two martyrs, the unbroken line of the Ahl al-Bayt and a twelve-month mourning.
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