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JOURNEY OF LOVE

-Do I have permission, Sister Sultan? -Come in, efendi, come in.

-May God be helpful. -May God accept.

Come, Yunus Efendi.

My sheikh said that Yunus Efendi had some medicines.

-Welcome. -Thank you.

Yunus Efendi came to take his medicines, Ali Taygu Efendi.

Come in, Ali Taygu Efendi, come in.

I will get the medicine right away.

Hope you are better, God's willing.

I am better.

It is not easy, of course. You were bedridden for a month.

Even the water was given drop by drop...

Mikel Efendi is a good doctor.

We would not have been relaxed if it was not for him.

Such a coincidence.

You were appointed to Nallihan and on your first day...

...you went to his office.

Here they are.

Hopefully it will cure you quickly, God willing.

God willing.

Uncle Mikel said that you should not neglect it.

Come on, let’s go, Yunus Efendi.

Two bunches.

Kasim Efendi, welcome.

Thank you, Sister Kira.

Is Mikel Efendi in?

My father went to look at a patient.

What is wrong? I hope you are not sick.

No, I am not.

There was an issue.

I came for advice.

Please do tell.

If I can be of assistance...

It is a private matter.

A relative of mine had an accident.

I was going to consult him.

What happened?

Well...

...he fell off a cliff while shepherding.

They brought someone from a village at night but...

...which village was it?

Kara...

Karatepe. Karatepe village.

They did not bring him to us.

What is his problem?

It has been about one month since the accident but...

...it is as if he does not remember anything.

He does not recognize faces or places he has been to.

It is as if he sees the world for a very first time.

It happens but I do not know why.

My father says it happens to people who receive a blow on the head.

Some forget everything, some forget some parts.

Do they not remember later?

Of course they do.

But how? Does it happen suddenly?

Or slowly? My father did not mention it.

Do not lose hope.

Bring him in if possible, for my father to see.

My father has seen people who even forgot who they are.

Now they live their life like before.

Who are you?

Who are you?

We are not doctors for you to get up, son.

Sit, come on, sit.

Is your bed comfortable?

Well?

You must have gotten used to comfortable beds in Konya in three months.

We do not have cotton mattresses in the cells, like we have at home.

Well?

Is there anything you want, anything you want to say?

Then if you excuse us, we will leave.

My sheikh.

When words flow over the silence, even the tongue cannot stop it.

Come on, tell me.

Who am I?

Who am I, my sheikh?

Everybody knows who you are.

Only you do not.

Who are you?

If you do not know yourself, what use is that everyone knows you...

...and you know everyone?

We cannot tell you who you are.

But if you want...

...and if you have strength...

...we can go out and walk a bit.

You know what they say?

Feet walk, mind works.

Come on then.

Look, he knows you as well.

Ask him.

How does he know you?

Stop!

Stop, stop!

Then we would need to give you a new duty as well.

Take this now.

Let this be your new duty.

You look after Karabash.

You are responsible for it until it gets used to here.

My lady prepared food for it, put it on its plate.

Where is Karabash?

I do not know, my sheikh.

Do not know what you know, know what you do not know.

It is gone, my sheikh.

If you let it loose, of course it will run away.

Go on, find it.

It does not get tamed or trained.

When it fills up its stomach, fulfills its earthly needs, it runs away.

Now go, find and bring it back.

If it does not want to come, put it on a leash.

If it gets stubborn...

...put a leash around its neck and pull it here. Look for it in the market.

Look at every corner, every road, even in every shop.

Wherever there is someone giving it food, it will stay there.

Come, my girl.

Do you have the energy to look for yourself?

Let us see what the horses are doing.

These fellows carry our load for years.

It is seen like they carry our load but...

Actually they carry our burdens.

This was a visitor which came with you.

Do you know it?

Look at him a bit.

It is trying to tell you something.

What does it say?

Please do not.

Please do not.

Look at it...

...what does Nallihan say to you?

Look at that square...

...those roads.

-Is he not the Cadi? -What cadi?

The cadi who resigned, Yunus Efendi.

-Yes, that is him. -Get out of here.

Take this dog from here.

The deranged who cannot look after himself has gone and got a dog.

Yunus Efendi!

Please do not.

Please do not.

This is the square of Nallihan.

Wherever the warning stone is...

...the square is there.

They say masters, gentlemen, judges...

...will leave the middle of the town empty.

We would get the axe out and force your head on a log...

...just to set an example.

There...

...the owners of the square.

-May peace be with you. -With you too.

Get well soon, Yunus Efendi.

Thank God that you are up.

Thank you.

Hasan Efendi.

Hasan Efendi.

You did not see him for two days...

...did you forget the pulpit guy, Cadi Efendi?

Stop!

Stop!

Hasan Efendi the pulpit man is innocent.

Come on.

-May peace be with you. -May peace be with you as well.

Where do you come from, where do you go?

I came from the road, will go on the road.

I wouldd like to give you a new duty, Yunus Efendi.

I thought a lot about it and you are the only one who can do this in the lodge.

From now on, you will recite the “I do not know” invocation.

Whatever someone asks...

...say “I do not know.”

Whomever asks for your opinion about something...

...say “I do not know.” Never forget it.

Invocation is mandatory for a follower...

...from now on “I do not know” invocation is mandatory for you.

Have a good night, Yunus Efendi.

You too, Kasim Efendi.

Are you available?

Come on in.

I am glad you are better.

Fellows are smiling but they worry as well.

Naturally.

So I wanted to come and ask how you are, if you were not sleeping.

Yunus Efendi should know himself best.

Whatever we say can only be a guess.

Do you have time?

Can we talk a bit?

I do not know.

JOURNEY OF LOVE

This project has been prepared with the section about Yunus Emre from...

...“Tezkireyi Has” written by Ibrahim Has and compilations of Mustafa Tatchi.

Are you not curious about what the fellows say about this matter?

I do not know.

May your morning be fine, will you not wish me a good morning, fellow?

-I do not know. -I must have slept ill.

I do not know.

They say that you will be going back to your duty.

They wonder when Yunus Efendi will return to the courthouse.

I do not know.

To tell the truth...

...we felt bad as much as we were glad.

But there must be some good in it.

A friend of ours who has benefited from our sheikh will be the judge.

Our sheikh has never advised anyone who is appointed by the state...

...to leave their post and become a follower of the lodge.

This was more propitious and he would have pointed you to that direction.

Did you not order you so?

I do not know.

Of course, you will decide on your future.

We can only wish you well for the future.

It is late, fellow.

We should not bother you anymore.

May you have a good evening.

You too, Kasim Efendi.

-Condone us. -Amen.

-Forgive us. -Amen.

-Show us compassion. -Amen.

You are our God, help us against the heretics.

God always speaks the truth.

May your soul never get ill, my dear girl.

When did you start the lessons?

It was during winter, father, it has been five months.

You may continue the lessons with Reciter Lady Fatma from now on.

She gives lessons in the market mosque.

I know, father.

You can go with your mother.

You can go with Kira.

I will start tomorrow, father.

Well, alright then.

May you have a good evening, my girl.

How will you go to Konya?

I have a horse at the inn.

If you were a dervish I would say, there is no life over life.

Okay, you go on the road and see where it leads to.

Is it you, Yunus Efendi?

Who are you, what is your name?

I do not know.

Do you not even know your name?

I do not know.

Fine.

Then know from now on.

Your name is Yunus.

Your tongue and mind has been cleansed, bathed with “I do not know” invocation.

From now on you are pardoned from this invocation.

-Thank you, my sheikh. -Thankfulness deserves it.

If you have stopped the “I do not know” invocation...

...could you order a new one, my sheikh.

Come, come closer.

Come on.

I will tell you these as well but...

...most of them are secrets.

You cannot tell them to incompetents.

If you give a dervish secret to an incompetent...

...that secret would turn back and take you hostage.

They may not be able to hold their tongue in the wrong place and spurt it out.

Raise your head.

Let’s see the gap between your brows.

I seek protection from God against the stoned devil.

In the name of God, The Most Gracious. We surely gave you a glorious victory.

What did I say?

God.

God.

God.

Okay, son, so if you are back...

...we wrote you in our dervish book.

May God let you go further in this road.

Our favors are with you.

Do not see these as superstitions.

A real dervish from the heart has the power of saints.

It affects objects but this is a secret.

This secret is not given, it is taken.

Those who seek it, walk the path as they are meant to do and reach it.

If they cannot walk correctly, they cannot reach it.

Then, the people who do not reach it say...

...it is not a path, it is only a superstition.

We cannot know whether we are on the path or in superstition.

We like to live as we believe.

That is all that happens.

There is no other truth.

We are on the path to Justice, they are in superstition.

We do not say that either.

Has anyone been on the end of the path to see who is Just and who is superstitious?

We live this niceness that we believe in.

Then, what is the good?

Oneness.

Unity.

Not in the lips, tongue or words...

...in the heart.

This is something which you feel.

Feelings do not write the books.

The alphabet does.

The heart speaks all languages.

You do not need an alphabet for a book of heart.

People who see this, say that we are fanatics.

We invocate in mountains or plains.

Or they say that we are mad and such.

Invocation cleans the soul.

It has a way...

...how can people know that?

It opens to those who walk on that path.

We cannot hire a town crier to shout the secrets to the people.

We are old men at the start of the journey.

We do not know whether the path is straight or winding.

But if someone comes and personally asks...

...we describe the way.

But if someone does not come...

...we do not send an invitation.

Everyone will walk their own way.

From now on always have the Oneness on your tongue, Yunus.

Let your invocation be, “there is only one God.”

Do not ever forget that...

...there is nothing else that can tame the tongue other than invocation.

If you are with other people, invocate silently.

If you are alone, invocate out loud.

When with people, do it from the heart not from the mouth.

Even these are ways...

...the ways of dervishes.

Do not ever forget...

...everything has a way.

If you do not start the road, you cannot reach.

Walking is not for wearing up our shoes...

...our aim is to reach the destination.

The road is one, it unites into one, being is also one.

Do not say it is an animal, a plant...

...in water, on the ground, in the air or the sky.

You may see or you may not.

They are all the same.

Imagine you have a mirror in your hand and show it to the sun.

You can see many suns from that mirror.

Now, are all these reflections a sun by itself?

No, they are not.

But, are they not from the sun?

Do they not originate from the sun itself?

Of course.

It is the sun.

If there is no sun, can you have a reflection?

Then the road leads you to the sun.

Now to explain everything to you...

...will not help you nor will it have a meaning.

It would only be useless blabber.

They are on the path.

Those who can see should see them.

If you know how to look...

...if you do not, you cannot see.

The eye cannot see it by itself.

On this path, those who are blind can see...

...those you see can be blinded.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

There is only one God.

Come on now...

...the goodness in your tongue may show you the way, God willing.

Say so.

Say that as well, come on.

Can you give me a new duty, my sheikh?

Do not ever stop your invocation.

Let’s think.

We will think and give you a suitable duty.

There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

Excuse me.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

There is only one God.

May you have a good morning, fellow.

My your fate be good, fellow.

I was going to invite you to some soup.

In the name of God.

Come, Mirror, come. Sit here.

Come, Mirror, come.

Let him in, fellow.

Come, sit.

Fellow, give him some space.

Glory to God.

Ali Taygu Efendi.

If you like, we can...

...drink our soup in our cells.

So Master Mirror can drink here.

Is it suitable?

Send him away.

Fill his bowl, give him his spoon, let him have it in his cell.

Come, Mirror, come.

Aghas.

Shall we go?

Is this what you mean?

What is this ridicule?

What is this disrespect and manner?

This is not a madmen lodge.

We have some madmen amongst us.

We have some madmen amongst us.

We protect them.

Our place is not with them.

We are not mad.

He is a madman for people...

...but Mirror is an honor for dervishes.

We are not Prophet Solomon.

We do not have a seal in our hands.

We cannot say who is mad and who is honored.

Well then...

...have a good meal.

With your permission, my sheikh.

Come, Yunus, come.

I was waiting for you.

I thought about it a bit.

Finally a suitable duty for you fell to our minds.

You shall have the post of water bearer of our lodge, Yunus.

You shall take the leather water pouch, fill it up from the fountain...

...go to Nallihan streets to give water to the poor, travelers, innkeepers...

...children, doorsteps and to the doors.

I would be honored, my sheikh.

I am joyous that you gave this duty to me.

Never let your invocation leave your tongue as well.

Invocation burns the heart of the dervish.

Without burning you cannot even become a brick, let alone a lover.

The dervish has to burn within.

He should boil like a wheat cauldron.

With the water pouch on your back, some would think...

...how can you carry that water with that fire?

But those who know, know that without fire...

...that water cannot be carried.

Sit on the water bearers post, carry the leather pouch from now on.

It is not suitable to go in there frequently, even with permission.

Please be a bit careful about customs and manners, fellow.

At the end we lead a social life here.

I am going to say, if you have something to say to our master...

...say it to us, we would relay it to him if it is suitable.

God forbid, a mistake in the method would lead to a mistake in the fundamental.

Even warning each other to obey customs and manners is a custom for us, fellow.

We know what our sheikh says.

There is no fundamental without method.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

Yunus Efendi, may God make it easy for you.

May He give peace to your heart.

We are going to the market.

Reciter Sister Fatma is her instructor now. She will be getting her approval.

-God willing. -God willing.

Hope to see you soon.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

The Efendis’s pain has not subsided.

Anytime he turns that way, the arrow wound kicks in.

He made the arrows himself, Bayram Agha.

So he really is a good blacksmith.

If he did not beg to Yunus Efendi...

...he would have melted like a candle in front of the Cadi.

He might be my master but his brother in law as well.

Instead of shouting at me, he should turn and shout at himself.

May peace be with you, masters.

-May peace be with you too, my sheikh. -May peace be with you too, welcome.

You are talking intensely. What is wrong?

What do you do, what do you say?

The devil is going to light a fire, we carry the wood, master.

May God make you as pure as water, son. May God give you mercy.

Thank you.

Thank you, Yunus Efendi.

You gave a life to Bayram Agha. Now you give people water.

May God never give anxiety to your heart, Yunus Efendi.

Thank you.

Come on, see you later.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

Dervish Efendi.

I am just a water bearer, the water is notmine.

I only hand it out.

They only did not teach being a dervish in Karatay.

Are you learning it in Nallihan at Tapduk Emre’s lodge?

If they taught dervish in the schools, we would have learned it as well.

Well...

...tell us, Yunus Efendi.

How is the public, are they thirsty?

For the dervish, water of a fountain cannot be bitter or sweet.

The water in the fountain is water in the fountain.

Stating that the water is bitter or sweet is not in our manners.

Water is a reflection of the truth.

You have to fill both of them.

If I put my cup beside the fountain without filling it...

...would it fill in a thousand years?

If you do not put your heart under the waterfall of truth...

...would it fill?

From whom does this waterfall of truth pour from?

Find someone enlightened.

How can we know?

While we are talking about it...

...let me tell you the relation between water and the truth in being.

Water is the first and strongest symbol of being in the material world.

There is fire above water...

...and air above fire.

The beings of air and fire do not have a form.

The first matter to have form is water.

That is why...

...water is the symbol of truth.

Water may be in different cups...

...may meander in different ways...

...may be painted to different colors but these are not important.

It may be in Yunus’ leather pouch...

...or in a golden cup in a Baghdat palace.

To judge water by its cup...

...is against the manner of dervishes, the travelers of oneness.

These are the basics.

When you believe that there is nothing else but God. You believe in water.

Not to bitter water or sweet water.

Good, bad; bitter, sweet...

...beautiful, ugly or similar judgments are futile.

It is against the Oneness of God.

A dervish will not ever let it slip out of his tongue.

We keep on saying dervish.

Explain it to us.

What is this thing they call dervish?

Der-viz.

In Persian “Der” means door...

...“Viz” means going about.

Der-viz became dervish.

Well.

That is the meaning in the dictionaries.

Let me tell about its meaning in life.

A follower of a wise mentor who sets on the road...

...to a journey of devotion.

But what is its basics?

What does it stand on?

I mean, what is this thing called dervish?

It cannot be the crown or the coat.

If it were, they would have gone to the market.

What is it that is sold in the lodge?

Let me tell you.

You cannot hear these things everywhere.

I will tell you the origin.

The Great Prophet once said:

“I pride on my poorness.”

What is this poorness?

The poorness we know. Not possessing anything, being poor.

The Prophet says, “I pride on my nothingness.”

Then what is a dervish?

The answer is from The Prophet.

Dervish is the competent of poorness.

Competent of nothingness.

Poorness, nothingness...

...means not attributing an independent ego to his own soul.

To know that being belongs to God.

Now, what does he mean, you ask?

-With God's grace. -With God's grace.

Alright.

Let me explain.

Our founder Ahmet Yesevi Efendi...

...has passed on his holiness Ali’s words about dervishes as...

...“if someone does not get up to pray at night...

...does not serve during the day...

...but claims to be a sheikh, all his efforts would go in vain.”

Then what does Founder Yesevi recite from his holiness Ali’s words?

“You, dervish...

...know and be aware that...

...you should first know the meaning of religious law...

...than the meaning of order...

...thirdly, the meaning of truth...

...and last of all, the meaning of accomplishment.

If someone is a mystic...

...and does not know these, then he is not a mystic.

It is not us who said it, it belongs to his holiness Ali.

There...

...this is what dervish is from his holiness Ali’s own words.

This is what dervish is from our founder Yesevi’s words.

Then there is a way and process.

If you set on this journey without it, you cannot reach your destination.

Four doors...

...40 steps.

They are the other secrets.

This is a journey of love.

Hypocrites cannot pursue this path.

Without leaving your ego behind...

...as a master of reproach, not being afraid of condemnation...

...living in the courtyard of The Prophet...

...without any material possessions, just like his followers...

...without turning your back to worldly things and living simple...

...you cannot turn to a dervish.

You need a piece of leather at the shoulder under this, fellow.

It is very hot, what he says is true.

Your back will get scarred.

Here is a piece of leather.

Put it on your shoulder.

You used to have a donkey, Guyende.

It used to carry the water pouch.

It ran away.

Now, it is done. Not for one day, not for two days.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

Yunus Efendi.

If you felt heartbroken due to our words about method and manners yesterday...

...please forgive us.

Not at all.

A friend warns, a foe gossips.

They may thing that we talk about our ego...

...but we are merely describing the road.

If we go to another door...

...we cannot know their manners too.

Someone would get up and warn us.

We only know the manners of our own road.

That being said...

...if you are not a friend, if you do not see as a friend...

...why do you describe the road?

Do not let me put you off your duty.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

There is only one God.

This is the former Cadi Yunus Efendi.

How do you know?

I know him. They say he became a dervish to his holiness Tapduk Emre.

There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

Ertegun Efendi, you say that this man robbed you but...

...you do not have an evidence or a witness.

I was in Beldibi village at that time.

This apprentice in the market, Gokhan is my witness.

-That is true, Cadi Efendi. -This child is a false witness.

If you tell me where Kerimoglu is...

...and cover Erteguns Aghas loss...

...I will forgive you.

I am sorry, I thought you were someone else.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God. There is only one God.

Welcome.

Is Uncle Mikel not in?

No.

I saw Yunus Efendi in the market, he had a pouch on his back as a water bearer.

Sit down.

The great Cadi Yunus Efendi?

He is not a Cadi anymore, he is a dervish.

I knew that but when I saw him in front of me with the pouch on his back...

...while returning from the class...

How can somebody resign from being a Cadi to become a dervish?

How can you explain it?

It is said that they have money in their stomachs.

Let it go, they cause warts.

Are you scared?

I am not, why should I be scared?

We need to break its shell, the money is under the shell.

My grandfather saw one of them in the garden one time.

“This was in Malazgirt when Sultan Alpaslan conquered it,” he said.

This is the longest living animal.

Then let’s break its shell, let the gold coins drop down.

Dervish is coming! Run, run away!

What happened to your neck, old man?

It is bleeding.

Come on now.

My mother wanted to look at a few clothes. My lesson is finished but she is not back.

What is your hurry? We could go together.

Where is Uncle Mikel?

He is gone to the village to check a wounded man.

Welcome.

Is the doctor not in?

Sister Kira says that he has gone to the village.

If you have a question...

...Sister Kira is also her father’s student.

If you tell me the problem, we would do what we can.

When the children were playing in the square...

...they wounded its neck.

It does not look like a wound.

It is as if someone cut it deliberately but not to harm it.

Maybe it had a tick.

What are you doing, father?

I am waiting, my girl.

He says, he is waiting for the turtle.

He waits with a knife in his hand.

I will clean it with limewater. It is a good merit.

Are you going?

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.

There is only one God.