?lim kendin bilmektir
Sen kendini bilmezsin
Ya nice okumaktir
Okumaktan mânâ ne
Ki?i Hakk'? bilmektir
Çün okudun bilmezsin
Ha bir kuru emektir
Okudum bildim deme
Çok tâat k?ld?m deme
Eri hak bilmez isen
Abes yere yelmektir
Dört kitab?n mânâs?
Bellidir bir elifde
Sen elifi bilmezsin
Bu nice okumakt?r
Yigirmi dokuz hece
Okusan ucdan uca
Sen elif dersin hoca
Mânâs? ne demektir
Yûnus Emre der hoca
Gerekse var bin hacca
Hepisinden eyice
Bir gönüle girmektir
Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.
What is the purpose of reading those books?
So that Man can know the All-Powerful.
If you have read, but failed to understand,
Then your efforts are just a barren toil.
Don't boast of reading, mastering science
Or of all your prayers and obeisance.
If you don't identify Man as God,
All your learning is of no use at all.
The true meaning of the four holy books
Is found in the alphabet's first letter.
You talk about that first letter, preacher;
What is the meaning of that-could you tell?
Yunus Emre says to you, pharisee,
Make the holy pilgrimage if need be
A hundred times-but if you ask me,
The visit to a heart is best of all.
-Yunus Emre
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