Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilün
Bilemem kim nereñizdir ḥacı Bektāşī gibi
Eñsesi böyle ḳalın mıydı nebek ṭaşı gibi
Yoḳ imiş sizce ḥarām ṭavşan etinden başḳa
Ne gelirse yutıñız gübreci ferrāşı gibi
In English
1. I cannot tell which part of you is like Hacı Bektaşî; was his nape too as thick as this, like a nebek stone?
2. It seems that for you nothing is forbidden but hare's meat; like the dung-sweeper you swallow whatever comes.
Literary and Historical Commentary
Coming straight after the long polemical kaside, this short satire again addresses the Bektashi dervishes. The poet separates them from Hacı Bektaş Velî himself: he says he cannot tell which part of the dervishes resembles their master, and mocks their outward appearance. The exact sense of the expression "nebek taşı", nebek stone, is not explained in the thesis; it appears to be a comparison used for thickness and coarseness.
The second couplet rests on the well-known belief in the Alevi and Bektashi tradition that hare's meat is not to be eaten. Mocking this prohibition, the poet implies that the other prohibitions are not kept. A language that ridicules the everyday custom of a community rests on prejudice, and here too the couplets are given as a historical document; in this section of the criticisms of the lodge the harsh tone does not let up.
Bibliography
- Zeynep Adıyahşi, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [43b-87b], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 43 (poem no. 195; manuscript fol. 53a). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116831.pdf
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