Original Persian Text
ای باری خدا باری خدا باری خدا
ای نامتو از قلب و زبان نیست جدا
امروز برحمت بوجود آورد
محروم مکن بنده زرحمت فردا
Reading in Latin letters made for this page:
Ey bârî Ḫudâ bârî Ḫudâ bârî Ḫudâ
Ey nâm-ı tu ez ḳalb u zebân nîst cüdâ
İmrûz be-raḥmet be-vücûd âverd(î)
Maḥrûm meken bende zi raḥmet ferdâ
In English
1. O Creator God, O Creator God, O Creator God! O You whose name is never parted from heart or tongue!
2. Today You brought (me) into being through Your mercy; tomorrow do not deprive this servant of Your mercy.
Literary and Historical Commentary
These four lines, which follow straight after the Arabic quatrain of praise, are in Persian and confirm once more İnal's word that the divan was written in three languages, Arabic, Persian and Turkish. The first line repeats the address "bârî Ḫudâ", Creator God, three times; this repetition builds a rhythm of supplication that raises the voice of the one praying. In the second line God's name is called a name never parted from heart or tongue.
The thought of the quatrain rests on a correspondence between today and tomorrow. The servant has been brought into being today through mercy; tomorrow, that is in the hereafter, he asks not to be deprived of the same mercy. This is a Persian, shorter wording of the thought seen in the Turkish supplication at the beginning of the divan, "You brought me into being out of generosity; now that I exist, make me worthy of Your kindness".
In the thesis the last word of the third line is printed in the form "آورد". The rubai metre and the sense require it to be read here in the second person singular as "âverdî", You brought; this is why the Latin reading writes "âverd(î)". Without seeing the manuscript it cannot be said whether this letter is present there.
Bibliography
- Havva Tok Yıldız, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [1b-43a], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. None (poem no. 70; manuscript fol. ). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116853.pdf
Online sources
