Edîb, Couplet 3: Aşkın ki gül-i bağ-ı dile

Couplet 3 — Aşkın ki gül-i bağ-ı dile şûle perimdir

Amasya05 Editorial Board • Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk • 01 October 2026 • Updated: 13 October 2026 • 2 min reading

Edîb of Lâdik's opening couplet likening love to a flaming plume on the rose of the heart and to the ornament of a turban of madness; possibly a second matla of one ghazal.

Original Ottoman Turkish Text

Aşkın ki gül-i bağ-ı dile şûle perimdir
Ârâyiş-i destâr-ı cünûn pûş-i serimdir

In English

1. Your love, which is a plume of flame on the rose of the heart's garden, is the ornament of my turban of madness, the covering of my head. (The couplet can be read in two ways; the plume of flame and the head-covering both describe the same thing, love.)

Literary and Historical Commentary

The couplet draws a picture of something worn on the head. "Şûle-per" means a plume of flame; if one thinks of the aigrette fixed to the front of an Ottoman turban, love is like a plume burning above the rose of the heart's garden. The second line ties the same picture to madness: "destâr-ı cünûn" is the turban of madness, "pûş-i ser" the covering of the head. Love is an ornament that crowns the lover's madness. In divan poetry the madness of Mecnun is the lover's honour; the turban of madness is therefore no disgrace but a mark of rank.

The word order of the couplet is obscure and it can be read in two ways. In the line "Aşkın ki gül-i bağ-ı dile şûle perimdir", the first half ending in "perimdir" counts love as the poet's "plume of flame", while the second line counts it as his head-covering. Either the two comparisons are simply set one after the other, or the first line is a relative clause describing love; the rendering above prefers the latter. A firm decision would need the whole poem.

Hüsameddin gives this opening couplet immediately after "Teshîr iden ol yâri" with the words "again by him". Both rhyme on the sound "-er" and both have the redif "-imdir". This means the two may be the opening couplet and the second opening couplet (hüsn-i matla) of the same ghazal; Hüsameddin does not say so, and it cannot be confirmed unless the divan is found. What Hüsameddin tells of Edîb is gathered in the article Edîb Mehmed Efendi of Lâdik.