Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilün
Nice emŝālini rüʾyetle buyursun tenvīr
Ṣubḥ-ı iḳbāliñizi ḫāliḳ-i işrāḳ u duḥā
Bu duʿā vird-i zebānım olaraḳ eyliyorum
Cümleye tehniyet-i ʿīd-i saʿīd-aḍḥā
In English
1. May the Creator of sunrise and forenoon illuminate the morning of your fortune by letting you see many more like it.
2. Making this prayer the litany of my tongue, I congratulate everyone on the happy Feast of Sacrifice.
Literary and Historical Commentary
Three short feast greetings follow one another in the divan; these two couplets are the first. In Ottoman literature it was a common custom to send verse greetings at the feasts to friends, elders and statesmen; such kıtas were often written at the head of a letter or on a card.
The kıta brings together in one rhyme "îd-i adhâ", the name of the Feast of Sacrifice, and "duhâ", the name of the forenoon: the morning hour in which the feast prayer is said is seen as the addressee's "morning of fortune". The wish "to see many more like it" is the poetic counterpart of the feast greeting still made today as "to many more feasts". Whom the kıta was written for is not stated; the word "cümleye", to everyone, in the second couplet makes it a general greeting.
Bibliography
- Zeynep Adıyahşi, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [43b-87b], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 125 (poem no. 282; manuscript fol. 83a). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116831.pdf
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