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Manzume 36 — Nasîhat aldı Orhan kardaşından

Amasya05 Editorial Board • Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk • 01 October 2026 • Updated: 14 October 2026 • 3 min reading

Four couplets saying that Orhan Gazi took counsel from his brother and prayers from the saints, and that Âşık Paşa prayed for him: the author placing his own ancestor in the founding story.

Contents 4

1Original Ottoman Turkish Text
2In English
3Literary and Historical Commentary
4Bibliography

Original Ottoman Turkish Text

Nasîhat aldı Orhan kardaşından
Du'âlar aldı iş ü yoldaşından

Dahı aldı du'â cümle velîden
Du'âlar ister Orhan cümlesinden

Mîrâsdur du'â almak Âl-i 'Osmân
Fâriglardur bu halkuñ dünyesinden

Âşık Paşa du'â Orhan'a itdi
Bile Gök Alp nesli cümlesinden

In English

1. Orhan took counsel from his brother; he took prayers from his comrades and companions.

2. He took prayer too from all the saints; Orhan seeks prayer from all of them.

3. Receiving prayer is the inheritance of the House of Osman; they have turned away from the worldly goods of this people.

4. Âşık Paşa prayed for Orhan, together with all the line of Gök Alp.

Literary and Historical Commentary

The True Part of the Legacy

The third verse of the same chapter comes under the heading "Velehu eydan" and looks for Osman's legacy somewhere else: the true inheritance of the House of Osman is the receiving of prayer. Orhan takes counsel from his brother Alâeddin; the prose of the next chapter will tell how Alâeddin advised him to wear the white cap and to organise the kadıs and the foot soldiers. Orhan also seeks prayer from his companions and from all the saints.

Âşık Paşa

The most striking of the work's family records is found in the last couplet: "Âşık Paşa du'â Orhan'a itdi", Âşık Paşa prayed for Orhan. Âşık Paşa is the author's great-grandfather, a sheikh who lived in Kırşehir and is known as the poet of the Garibnâme. In the introduction Âşıkpaşazâde traced his line to him and to Baba İlyâs, and in the opening mesnevi he said that his family was born together with the House of Osman. Here he places his ancestor inside the founding story, among the saints praying for Orhan. When Yavuz and Saraç present Âşık Paşa as a "spiritual mentor" beside Osman and Orhan, they rely on couplets of this kind. The second line of the couplet names "the line of Gök Alp"; Gök Alp, the ancestor of the Ottomans in the Oğuz genealogy, recurs again and again in the work as the root of the dynasty. In this line Âşık Paşa's prayer and the Ottoman lineage come together in one sentence. The connection of Âşıkpaşazâde's family with Amasya through the village of Elvan Çelebi is one of the subjects of the page Âşıkî (Âşıkpaşazâde).