FAKIR SÖZLERI

1. Hakâiki bulmayanlar

merasimi din edindiler.

English Those who have not found

Reality have made

ceremonies into religion.

2. Itlâk zevki, dîne mal

olmayan ayn’ı dîn

kimsenin malıdır.

The pleasure of

Liberation is the possession

of someone who is

the essence of religion,

and not possessed by religion.2

3. Allah’tan konuşan çok,

Allah’ı bilen yok.

There are many who

speak of God, none who

know Him.

4.Tasavvuf (adem) ilmidir.

Mysticism is the knowledge

of non-existence.

5. Insan için kurtuluş

vardır, insanlıktan

ötede.

There is salvation for man

beyond the human state.

6. Hep sensin, amma sen

sen değilsin.

Everything is you, but

you are not you.

7. Ne kadar yoksan o kadar

hâkimsin,

ne kadar varsan o kadar

mahkûmsun.

To the extent you are

not, you are dominant;

to the extent you are,

you are dominated.7

8. Cihan kıymetlerine

temel bir hatâdır:

yokun var zannedilmesi.

There is a fundamental

error in worldly values:

the non-existent is

thought existent.

9. Benî Âdem yoktur,

benî İdrâk vardır.

There are no sons of Adam,

there are only sons of intelligence.9

10. Müşahhasta kalma,

mücerrede eriş.

Do not remain in the concrete,

attain the abstract.

11. Hilkat muamması

(adem)’le hallolur.

The riddle of creation is

solved by non-existence.

12. Bedenin cisimdir diye

senedin mi var?

Have you proof positive

that your body is bodily?

13. Uyanık insan çok,

insanlıktan uyanmış yok.

Many are awake, but none

awakened from the

human state.

14. Tok beden mukayyede,

aç beden mutlağa çalışır.

The satiated body strives

for the limited,

the hungry for the body

absolute.14

15. Bulduğun ile mutmain isen

ne âlâ, değilsen aliyyül-âlâ.

If you are content with

what you’ve found,

how splendid!

If not, that is the splendor of splendors!

16. Tahkik, vahdet’i vücûd

değil, künh’ü vücûd

yoludur.

Verification

is not the road

to the “oneness of

being”, but to the “essence of being”.16

17. Riyâzetsiz ( kaal )’i ( hâl )’e

değişemezsin.

English Without asceticism you

cannot change mere words

into revelation

.

18. Tok gezdiğin gün kendini

sâlik sayma.

On the day you wander satiated

don’t consider yourself

a seeker.18

19. İnsan için mahv’dan

başka rahat olmadı.

There has never been

peace for man, except in extinction.

20. Mürşîd Röntgen gözlü tâlib

ister : nazarı bâtın görsün.

The spiritual guide wants a seeker

with x-ray eyes;

whose vision might see the unseen.

21. Kudreti acizde ara

Serveti fakırda ara

Hayatı ölümde ara

Varlığı yokta ara.

Seek strength in weakness

Seek riches in poverty

Seek life in death

Seek existence in non-existence

22. Riyâzât, sâliki Zât ile

temasa getirir. Rehberden

müstağni kılar.

Ascetism puts the

seeker in touch with the

Divine Essence. They

make him

independent of a guide.

23. Açlık enbiyâ ekmeğidir,

pîrân lokmasıdır.

Hunger is the bread of the

prophets, the dainty morsel of

the saint.

24. Nübüvvet ucuzdur,

(fena) bahalıdır.English Prophethood is cheap,extinction is costly.24

25. Fakra erişmeyen çok

fakirdir.English He who does not achievepoverty is poor indeed.25

26. Okyanus gezen’ ırmağı

neylesin,mutlağı bulan mürselineylesin.English He who wanders theocean, what has he to dowith the river?He who reaches the absolute,what has he to do withthe messenger?

27. Mestîyi ayyaş ne bilir,

sekri sen küûldan sor.English What does the toperknow of drunkenness?Ask the alcohol what isintoxication.

28. Âlem «keen lem yekûn»

vasıflı bir zuhurdur.English The world is amanifestation whosecharacter is “as if it hadnever been”.

29. Kıdem (adem)’dedir:

ne ki adîmdir,o kadîmdir.English Eternity is innon-existence, to thedegree something is not there,it is eternal.

30. Minnetsİz niymet

(Gayb)’tır.English The Unseenis the bounty without obligation.

31. Cihan kurnazlıklarını

terket ki sana ezel zekâsı verilsin.English Renounce worldly wilesthat you may receivethe perspicacity of thepre-eternal.31

32. (Kevn)’den çıkmak en ulu

keramettir.English Quitting this world isthe greatest miracle.

33. Her şey maddedir, amma

madde madde değildir.English Everything is matter, butmatter is not matter.

34. Mevcudat tam (realite)’dir,

lâkin (realite) (irreelle) ‘dir.English Verily all existing things arereality, but realityis not real.

35. Malûmat Gayb’a perdedir.

English Knowledge is the veilcovering the Unseen.35

36. Hüznün kadrini bil,

inkisarı aziz tut.English Know the value of grief,hold affliction dear.36

37. Nedir suâlin odur kemâlin.

English What your question is,your perfection is.

38. Doğarken gaybettin,

öldükte bulursun.English What you lost in beingborn, you will find in dying.

39. Cihan bir

emr’i gayrı vâkidir.English The world is an unfinishedbusiness.39

40. Varlık yaprağını çevir,

kitap hatm olur.English Turn the page of existence, and the book is finished.

41. Cisim, madde görünmüş

sırf mânâdır.English The body is pure meaning that appearsas matter.

42. O kadar git ki, ≪sende

senlik kalmasın≫,eşyada şey’iyyetkalmasın,Allahta Ülûhiyyetkalmasın.English Go so far that “in youthere is no you-ness left,”In things no thing-ness left,and in God no Godhead left.

43. Fena yolunda sana

mubahı haram ederler, bakaada muhali mümkünkılmak için.English On the road to self-extinction,they will deny youthe permissible tomake possible theimpossible in the World to Come.43

44. Hakikî hayâtı ölümde

bulursun.English You will find the true lifein death.

45. (Suğrâ) idrâktir,

(kübrâ) gaybtır: tahkik mantığında.English In the logic of verificationthe minor premise isperceptionthe major premise isthe unseen.45

46. Gafil derin Kevin koması

içindedir.English The heedless are in adeep coma that is “Creation”.

47. Cihanın yegâne zevki

zevalidir.English The soulpleasure of the world is its evanescence.

48. Allah uçurumdur, sukut

sevenler bulur.English God is the abyss, thosewho love to fall discover.

49. Cihanda bigâne ol

Ledünde yegâne olMecliste peymâne ol.English In the world bea stranger. With the Divine Essencebe as one. At the feast be thegoblet.49

50. Mâhiyyetlere eriş,

müşküller biter.English Attain the Realities andthe difficulties are over.50

51. Tasavvuf bilmek değil,

bitmektir.English Mysticism is not aboutknowing but finishing.51

52. Tasavvuftur : riyâzât ile,

tasavvurdur : rivâyât ile.English It is mysticism that comeswith asceticism; it isimagination that comes withstory-telling.

53. Kapı kapı dolaşma,

muradlar sendedir.English Do not wander from door todoor; what you desire iswithin you.

54. Müridlere bak mürsidi

anla.English Look at the disciples and discernthe teacher.

55. Hâriçte arama: dışarda

bir şey kalmadı dasen var oldun.English Don’t search in the outsideworld: when nothingremains outside then youhave come into Being.

56. Esma ile olmaz, fena ile

olur.English Through the BeautifulNames of God youdon’t succeed; withextinction you do.56

57. Teselli tasavvufunu ko,

tecelli tasavvufuna git.English Put aside the mysticism ofconsolation and goto the mysticism ofmanifestation.57

58. Her mefhum (fena)’da

başka hakikate döner.English In extinction everyconcept turns into adifferent truth.

59. «Les vingt années de

Paganini».English “The twenty years ofPaganini.”59

60. Riyâzetsiz beden

akordsuz çalgıdır.English A body without asceticism is aninstrument untuned.

61. Ülûhiyyet hakikati fenada

başka nâm, başka mâhiyetalir.English In extinction, the truth of what God istakes on anotherquality,another nature.

62. Tahkike erişen kurtuldu:

bugün zulmetten, yarinkulluktan.English He who attainsverification is saved,today from darknesstomorrow from slavery.

63. Hak ma’dûmen

mevcûddur, Halk mevcûden ma’dûmdur.English God is Presence non-existent;Man is non-existence present. {Truth is non-existently existent, mankind is existently non-existent.}

64. «Comme le sculpteur,

la douleur vous dégage du bloc.»English “Suffering, like a sculptor,chisels you from theblock.”

65. Beşeriyyetin gitikçe

zâtiyyetin gelir.English The more your humannature dies,the more your essentialnature emerges.

66. Sevgilerin gafletlerindir.

English Your loves and affectionsare your heedlessness.

67. Dünyâ bir negatiftir,

ki imkân derler.English The world is anegative they callmanifestation.

68. «L’Humain est un

compromis entre l’Etre etle Non-Etre.»English “The human is acompromise between Beingand Non-Being.”

69. Hakikat’ı Âdemiyye:

munbasit idrâktir.Hakikat’ı Muhammediyyemünkesir idrâktir.English The truth of the sons ofAdam is expansive perception. The truth of the sons of Muhammed is extinguished perception. 69

70. Allah’i bulan her şeyi

buldu.English One who has found Godhas found everything.

71. Göz verildi, görülmezi

göresin diye.Ayak verildi, erilmezeeresin diye.English The eye was given that onemight see what isunseen.The foot was given that onemight reach theunreached.

72. İsti’dâd ve iştiyak pasif

rabıtadır, riyazetleraktif rabıtadır. Gayrırabıtalar vehimdir.English Aptitude and longing arethe passive connections.Asceticism is the activeconnection. Otherconnections are illustions.72

73. Cihan harâblıklarla

payidardir.English The world and its ruins endure.

74. Evvel zaman bir

karanliktir : nûrânî.Âhır zaman biraydınlıktir : zulmânî.English The beginning of time isa darkness, radiantThe ending of time isa brightness, obscure.74

75. (lntrinseque) iymân

arayan, dinlerin menbainaçıkar.English He who seeks the : intrinsiquityof faithreaches the source of allreligions.

76. Sensiz bir âleme hiç

ulaştınmi ?,English Have you ever reacheda world without you?

77. Zikre gark ol : ne zâkir

ne mezkûr kalınca.Yemek, yeme : açlıkvatan, tokluk gurbetolunca.İnkisar tut: külliyen kurtulunca.English Be drowned in zikr; tillneither the seeker nor thesought remains.Don’t eat, don’t eat; untilhunger is your home andsatiety exile.Hold affliction dear: untilyou are totally saved.

78. Dipsiz uçuruma düş ki

sukutlardan âzâd olasın:ecrâm gibi.English Fall into the bottomless abyssthat you may be freefrom falling like the planets.

79. Gâh ednâdan söylerler,

gâh âlâdan: bize tezâdgörünür.English At one time they speakfrom below, another timefrom above…it seems acontradiction to us.79

80. Fecre kadar yanan kandil

ol: Baka bulasın.English Be a candle burning tilldawn, that you mayfind Permanency.

81. Fena, varlığın bittiği

yerde başlar.English Extinction begins in the placewhere existence ends.81

82. İş, vücûddan vecde gidiştir.

English The work is the transitionfrom being to ecstasy.

83. Rehber deniz feneridir:

hedef değildir, işiğinida gizlemez.English The spiritual guide is thelight-house; he is not thedestination;neither does he hidehis light.

84. Dünyâ serâbdır, zehirli:

ibâdâttır panzehri.English The world is a poisonousmirage: its’ worship that isthe antidote.

85. Hakikî mürşid ilm’i

zâtı’i ilâhîdir.English The true spiritual guideis the essential knowledgeof the divine.

86. Allah mecburu altın

yapraktır : ezilir dağılmaz.,English One compelled by god is asgold leaf: crushed but notbroken.

87. Ey Şems’i Tebriz : ne güneş

imişsin ki bir nuruncihana Mevlâ oldu.English O Shemsi Tebriz! What asun you must have beenthat a single ray of yourlight became Masterof the world.87

88. Edyânı ko, Deyyânı bul.

English Put aside the religious laws andfind the Lawmaker.

89. Tahkik yolu geçer:

gâh ibâdâttan,gâh hârâbattan.English Supreme Judge.The path of vendicationpasses sometimes throughthe tranquilities ofthe mosque andsometimes through thetavern of wine.89

90. Sen ölmeden gönlün

dirilmez.English Your heart cannot cometo life before you die.

91. Envâr esrardan

mahrum kılar.English Lights deprive oneof the mysteries.

92. Bir güneş batar,

bin güneş doğar:zahir akşaminda,bâtınlar fecrinde.English One sun sets, a thousandsuns rise: in the evening ofthings visible, in the dawnof things hidden.92

93. Kerâmât ile hayran mi

edersin, yoksa aşk ilemestân mı edersin ?English Do miracles astonish you,or does loveintoxicate you?

94. llm’i mâduma (kodeks)

olmaz.English For knowledge of the nonexistent,there isno codex.

95. Ülûhiyyete siğmamiş

bir Allah ara. English Seek a God not restrictedto the Godhead.95

96. Ruh’u hayvani:

cemâdin ötesi,Ruh’u izafî: cismin ötesi,Ruh’u mutlak: vücûdiyyât ötesi.English The animal Spirit isbeyond the inorganic;The relative Spirit isbeyond the body;The absolute Spirit isbeyond all existences.96

97. Bulduğun mânidir,

henüz bulmadiğina.English What you have foundis the obstacle to whatyou have not yet found.

98. Kâinat bi illettir,

bi gayedir.English Creation is withoutrhyme or reason.98

99. Mürşid âyinedir:

kadrini dilber bilir.English The spiritual guide isa mirror, whose valuethe beloved understands.

100. Mâdûmun mûcidi

ne demek?English “The inventor ofthe non-existent.” What does this mean?

101. Mukaddesât ademiyâttir.

English Things holy are thingsnon-existent.

102. Seni senden öteye

götürmektir, rehberin işi.English The task of the spiritualguide is to take youbeyond you.

103. (Nirvana) bir peyâledir,

sakisi yok.English Nirvana is a sip of wine needing no cupbearer.

104. Açlık ölüyü diriltir,

tokluk diriyi öldürür.English Hunger resurrects the dead,satiety kills the living.

105. Şeytan besmelede gizlendi.

English Satan has concealedhimself in the “Bismillah”.105

106. Ne aradın da İslâm’da

bulmadin?English What have you sought in Islamand not found?106

107. Aşk mecazîdir, eşhas

arasında ve kul ile Rabarasında kaldıkça.English Love is metaphysicalso long as it is betweenpersonalities or betweenLord and slave.107

108. (Zidnî) ile (Irnî)

mâbeynidiri: insanligin zevki.English Mankind’s pleasure isfound between “bewilder me” and “tell me what is”.108

109. İdrâk, vücûb ile imkânin

ittisalidir.English Perception is the linkbetween necessityand possibility.

110. Mâhiyetlerden gafletin

kadardır, ahkâmda tedbirin.English The more your heedlessnessof the realities,the more yourcaution in judgements.

111. Gafil varlıklarla, kâmil

yokluklarla beslenir.English The heedless are nourishedon things existent,the perfected on thingsnon-existent.

112. Hakk avamın rabbıdır,

havassın aslıdır.Havâss’ül havassin ne rabbidir, ne aslidir.English Truth is the Lord of theuninitiated, the substanceof the initiated.But for the rarest of the rareTruth is neither theone nor the other.112

113. Mutlak mebde’dir,

her suâlin cevabi.English The Absolute is the starting point andthe answer to everyquestion.

114. Ademe ermeyen

Hakka ermedi.English Who does not reach non-existence has notreached the Truth.

115. Ne vahdettir,

ne kesrettir: Cem’i ma’al-fark’dır.English It is neither unitynor multiplicity:It is the simultaneous aprehensionof theAggregate of meanings.115

116. «Kün» ilm’i zatîden

ibarettir.English “Be” consists of knowledge of the essence.

117. Fena (zıddiyyet’i ayniyye)

yapar.English Extinction resolvesthe contrariness of theessences.117 

118. Köhne şarâb muhakkik

kelâmıdır.English “Words from a masterare like old wine.”

119. Maksûd bestedir, güfte

vesile,Murâd mestidir, kadehbahane. Fenâ’i Tiyh’dentecelli’i Sînâ maksûd,Rûyâ’işeeden Ken’ân i Gayb mev’ûd.English The aim is the music,words are only the pretext;the intention is intoxication,the goblet is only the vessel.The aim is the manifestationon Mt. Sinai after the annihilation in the wilderness of Tyihwilderness; the promise isthe Land of the Unseenafter the Dream ofthe desire.119

120. Vâkıf isen sırra,

çalışmazsın Cihanı islâha.English If you are aware of themystery, you will notstrive to reform the World.

121. Fena ehli ateşte hayat

bulur, semender gibi.English The people of extinction findlife in the fire, like the salamander.

122. Zikrin âlâsı, en âlâ zikrin

dahi gaflet olduğunu bilmektir.English The highest zikr is to knoweven the highest zikras heedlessness.

123. Nîl’e atılmayan

(Kulzüm)’e hükm edemez.English He who has not been castinto the Nile cannotcommand the Red Sea.

124. Kâmil iki cihan

mültekasıdır.English The perfect man is themeeting place oftwo worlds.124

125. Muvahhid illâ der,

muhakkik lâ der.English The monotheist says illathe master says la

126. Vücûd keynûnetindir,

idrâk aynûnetindir,adem gaybubetindir.English The extent of your beingis your body,the extent of yourperception isyour consciousness, the extent of your absenceis your non-existence. 

127. Mükevvenât

(pour memoire) meblâğgibidir, muhasebe’i itlâkta.English Things created serve asreminders, like sums ofmoney in the accountancyof Absolute Liberation. 

128. «Hakikî ismim nedir?»-İzzetin isimsiz olmandır.

English “What is my real name?” –Your glory is your beingnameless.

129. Dinleri izah edemezsin:

menşeleri Gayb sirridir.English You can not explain thereligions:  their source isthe secret of the Unseen.

130. Kadîm eser mukaddestir:

«ol var idi sen yoğ iken.»English The ancient work is holy:“while you were not,it was.”130

131. (Enel – Hak) tasavvuf değildir.

English “I am the Truth” Is notmysticism.131

132. «Marier deux humains,

c’est forcer deux universá se souffrir.»English “To marry two humansis to force two universesto suffer each other.”

133. Seni yakarsa

o san’at eseridir.English If it burns you,it is a work of art.

134. Iyrâs ehli vardir,

iysâr ehli vardir.English There are those whobequeth andthere are those who arebestowed.134 

135. «L’Humain est la rive

entre l’infiniment existentet l’infiniment inexistent»English “The human isthe shore betweenthe infinitely existingand the infinitely non-existing.”

136. Vukuat gayrı vâki’dir,

hâdisât gayrı hadistir.English Events are non-eventful,accidents are non-accidental.

137. Dinler tasavvuftan geldi,

tasavvuf dinlerden değil.English Religions came frommysticism;not mysticism from religions.

138. Ne ki sen değildir, senin

ittılâınâ gelirmi?English Does that which is not youcome to your knowledge?

139. Fenâ’dan alan mişkât’i

Muhammed’den aldi.English He who takes fromextinction has taken fromthe lamp-niche ofthe Prophet.139

140. Muhakkiktir tam

(realiste) olan:(illusion)’lardankurtulmaklaEnglish It is the master of verification whobecomes the true realistbecause he is saved from illusions.

141. Âlem muhteşem bir

yalandir.English This world is amagnificent lie.

142. Yokluk vatandir,

varlik gurbettir:ulu meşrebi i kimseye.English Non-existence is home,existence is exile, tosomeone with highspiritual disposition.

143. Itlak yolunda Allah-

perestlik yoktur.English On the path of itlaqthere is no : idolatry ofAllah.

144. Kâse’i fağfur ol:

bir dokun bin dinle,kendi sinenden.English Be the porcelain bowl,that you touch onceand then hear a thousandsighs, from yourown breast.144

145. «Qu’est-ce que la vie?

Une agonie. »English”What is life? Nothing butstrife.”

146. (Sevâd’ı â’zam) ulvî

heyuladir,(arş’i muazzam) berzah’ikübrâdır.English The greatest presence isa sublime phantom;The mightiest throne isthe greatest limbo.

147. Diyanet saadettir,

siyâset felâkettir.English Piety is felicity,polity is catastrophe

148. Hilkattan murâd idrâktir.

English The purpose of creation isperception.

149. Ahlak bedenî sudûrâttir:

ilk adimin neyse sonadımın odur.English Morals are physical emanations:whatever your firststep, so your last step.

150. İçinden çıkmadıkça

dünya bilinmez.English You cannot know theworld until you’ve left it.

151. Fakır gibi servet olmaz,

açlık gibi gıda olmaz.English There are no richeslike poverty,there is no food like hunger.

152. Izâfi’yi bilemedin,

mutlak’a ermeden.English You cannot have knownthe relative, without having reachedthe absolute.

153. Iktisâb mertebeleri:

Taleb, tevessül, tasarrufve istiğnadir.English The degrees of the seeker’sprogress are: insistentlonging, fervent petitioning(to approach God), intimateknowledge (of God), andtranscendence of God.