Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilātün feʿilün
Tā ki her sāl ola ḥuccāca mevāḳıf ʿarafāt
Ṣavt-ı lebbeyke ḳarīn zemzeme-i tekbīrāt
Kaʿbe-i kalbiñizi eyleye her sāl ṭavāf
ʿīd-i ḫōş maḳdem-i aḍḥa-yı ʿamīmü'l-berekāt
In English
1. As long as every year 'Arafat is a standing place for the pilgrims, as long as the murmur of the takbirs accompanies the cry of "Here I am",
2. may the auspicious coming of the Feast of Sacrifice, whose blessings reach all, circle the Kaaba of your heart every year.
Literary and Historical Commentary
The preceding greeting is written here a second time; comparing the two texts brings out the small but meaningful changes the poet made. In the first version the feasts circle "the Kaaba of your life"; here they circle "the Kaaba of your heart". This change comes close to the thought often repeated in Sufism that "the heart is the house of God": the true Kaaba is the human heart.
There is an addition in the first couplet too: this time the murmur of the takbirs accompanies the cry of "Here I am". The tashrîq takbirs, said from the morning of the eve of the Feast of Sacrifice until its fourth day, are among the most familiar sounds of the feast. In the second couplet the feast is named and given the epithet "hoş makdem", of auspicious coming. The two forms of the same greeting show that the divan was kept like a poetry notebook and that the poet preserved even the small texts he wrote on everyday occasions.
Bibliography
- Zeynep Adıyahşi, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [43b-87b], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 126 (poem no. 284; manuscript fol. 83a). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116831.pdf
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