Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Mefʿūlü mefāʿīlü mefāʿīlün faʿ (fāʿ)
Nūruñla dil ü cāna ġıdāsıñ Yāsīn
Ey ḳalb-i ḥüküm-perver Kurʾān-ı Mübīn
Yormaz mı perin ḳuvveti ḳalb-i Kurʾān
Rūḥü’l-ḳudüsüñ ḳuvvetine ṣad taḥsīn
In English
1. O Yâsîn, with your light you are food for heart and soul; O heart of the clear Qur'an that gives judgement!
2. Does the strength of the heart of the Qur'an not tire the wing (of the one who brought it)? A hundred bravos to the strength of the Holy Spirit (Gabriel).
Literary and Historical Commentary
Yâsîn, one of the suras most read among the people, is the one this quatrain addresses. A hadith says "Everything has a heart, and the heart of the Qur'an is Yâsîn"; Cûdî's address in the second line, "ey kalb-i Kur'ân-ı Mübîn", O heart of the clear Qur'an, rests on this hadith. The reading of Yâsîn after the dead and in graveyards also gives meaning to the first line, which calls it food for heart and soul.
The second couplet turns the image of the "heart" into a reckoning of weight. If the heart of the Qur'an is so strong, does it not tire the wing of the angel who carried and brought it? The answer is a praise: a hundred bravos to the strength of the Holy Spirit, that is, Gabriel, who brought revelation. The idea of the weight of revelation had been worked in the earlier quatrain that asked the Prophet how he bore receiving the Qur'an; here the same question is put, this time, to Gabriel.
Bibliography
- Havva Tok Yıldız, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [1b-43a], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 100 (poem no. 84; manuscript fol. ). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116853.pdf
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