Âşıkî, Manzume 93: Fikirlü tedbîrüñ ko takdîrde bak

Manzume 93 — Fikirlü tedbîrüñ ko takdîrde bak

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

İzmiroğlu is warned in four couplets: the Pretender Mustafa wins over Rumelia, and Bayezid Paşa, after kissing his hand, is put to death at Sazlıdere.

Original Ottoman Turkish Text

Fikirlü tedbîrüñ ko takdîrde bak
Ki kudret göstere 'ilminden ol Hak

Okıyup añlamaduñ 'ilm-i Hak'dan
Fenâdan añladuñ mı ders ü sebak

Sen umduguñ bu kapuda bulınmaz
'Abesdür kapu kakduguñ o tak tak

Var İzmiroglı söz sazına uyma
Dimeyeler kaçan Mustafâ'ya bak

In English

1. Leave your thoughtful plans and look to destiny, that God may show His power from His knowledge.

2. Reading, you did not understand God's knowledge; did you learn a lesson, a reading, from transience.

3. What you hope for is not to be found at this door; your knocking "tap tap" at that door is in vain.

4. Go, İzmiroğlu, do not follow the tune of words; lest they say, "look at Mustafa, when did he run away."

Literary and Historical Commentary

The Pretender and Bayezid Paşa

As Murad takes the throne at Bursa, Rumelia falls into turmoil, and that turmoil fills the eighty-second chapter. At Salonica there is a Pretender who says, "I am Mustafa, son of Bayezid Han." He marches to Vardar Yenicesi, some of Evrenez's sons go over to him; Serres and Edirne surrender their fortresses to him; all Rumelia turns to him. In Anatolia the lords say to Bayezid Paşa: "You are governor-general of Rumelia. Until now you ate its honey; now you must also bear its sting." Bayezid Paşa comes to Gallipoli, learns that Rumelia has gone over to Mustafa, goes to Edirne, kisses his hand and is left in his former rank. Then İzmiroğlu Cüneyd Beg comes and is given the vizierate. Through İzmiroğlu's plans the yayas of Rumelia are made exempt; the azaps are called up and the ships of Gallipoli secured. Then they leave Edirne, camp at Sazlıdere, and "there he made Bayezid Paşa a martyr"; their intention is to reach Bursa.

The End of a Vizier from Amasya

The Bayezid Paşa who dies in this chapter is Mehmed Çelebi's vizier, and in the work's chapter on viziers he is named as the man who built an imaret in Amasya. This vizier, who rose at the side of Mehmed Çelebi, himself in Amasya during the Interregnum, is killed by the Pretender's side after going over to it. There is a page on him on the site, Bayezid Paşa of Amasya. The couplets, however, aim at the killer: it calls to İzmiroğlu Cüneyd, "do not follow the tune of words". The first two couplets put destiny above planning; the third says that what is hoped for is not found at that door and that knocking "tap tap" is in vain. The fourth couplet foretells an end that will come about when the Pretender's flight is told. The rhyme is carried by "-ak": bak, Hak, sebak, tak, bak.