Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Mefʿūlü mefāʿīlü mefāʿīlün faʿ (fāʿ ) and Mefʿūlün mefʿūlü mefʿūlü feʿūl and Mefʿūlü mefāʿīlü mefāʿīlü feʿūl
Bed düşmen dōstı nümādır bu cihān
Ḳahrıyla ḳoġar luṭf ile alsa mihmān
Aldanma bugün böyle yüze güldigine
Defʿ eyliyecekdir seni ʿüryān, giryān
In English
1. This world is an evil enemy in the guise of a friend; though it takes in its guest with kindness, it drives him out with wrath.
2. Do not be deceived because it smiles in your face like this today; it will drive you out naked and weeping.
Literary and Historical Commentary
The first of the quatrains on the world that follow the marriage sequence likens the world to a host. The host receives his guest with kindness, but in the end drives him out with wrath; it is an evil enemy that seems a friend. This comparison is a harsh variation on the old tradition that likens the world to an inn and man to a traveller staying there a few nights.
The last line ties man's departure from the world to his state at birth. Man comes into the world naked and weeping; and the world will drive him out "üryân, giryân", naked and weeping. In another quatrain of the divan weeping at birth and at death was used as a shared image; here the same image is used to describe the world's faithlessness. Not being deceived by today's smile is the counsel the quatrain leaves to the reader.
Bibliography
- Havva Tok Yıldız, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [1b-43a], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 114 (poem no. 136; manuscript fol. ). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116853.pdf
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