Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilün
Her sene mevḳıf-ı ḥuccāc-ı kirām olduḳça
Ṣavt-ı lebbeyk ile ṭolduḳça mübārek ʿarafāt
Kaʿbe-i ʿömrüñizi eyleye peyveste ṭavāf
Ḳāfile ḳāfile aʿyād-ı ʿamīmü'l-berekāt
In English
1. As long as every year 'Arafat is the standing place of the noble pilgrims, as long as blessed 'Arafat fills with the cry of "Here I am",
2. may feasts whose blessings reach all, caravan after caravan, circle the Kaaba of your life without end.
Literary and Historical Commentary
In the second greeting, unlike the first, the images come from the pilgrimage. The Feast of Sacrifice falls in the season of the hajj; on the eve of the feast the pilgrims stand at 'Arafat and cry the talbiya, "Labbayk Allâhumma labbayk", here I am, O God, here I am. The poet ties his wish to this scene: as long as 'Arafat fills every year with pilgrims, may the feasts circle the addressee's life like the Kaaba.
The beauty of the image lies in the feasts coming caravan after caravan and turning around a human life: just as the caravans of pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the years will come like caravans and go round the addressee's life. The kıta that follows directly in the divan says the same thought again with small changes; the poet probably wrote his greeting in two forms in order to send it to different people.
Bibliography
- Zeynep Adıyahşi, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [43b-87b], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 126 (poem no. 283; manuscript fol. 83a). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116831.pdf
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