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THE JOURNEY OF LOVE

Go and fetch Demirci Bayram. Don't lose time. Go and get him.

You wait here.

What are you doing?

Don't!

Don't. Don't.

You are dead!

Don't.

What do you want from me?

Tell me, what have I done to you? What do you want from me?

Do you not know what I want?

-Don't you know what you did to me? -Okay, okay.

Okay, you don't owe me.

Don't think it's because I fear, it's solely because you're my wife's brother.

Now shoot the arrow if you have the heart.

Or leave the arrow and bow down.

Do you think I believe your stories?

-Do you take me for a fool? -Don't.

Even if I spare your life, you won't spare mine!

Don't.

Don't.

Don't!

Don't!

Don't do this, Husnu Aga!

Stop. Let it go.

Let the traitor go.

Where are you going, Yunus Efendi? Let that traitor go.

Lie down.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Knock on every door.

Don't neglect it even if no one answers.

Leave some even for the unanswered doors so Hussain will be remembered.

May it bring health. Enjoy. Thank you, sisters.

You are smiling, father.

You seem so happy. I hope it's for good reasons.

Sometimes we are happy not because good things happen...

but because bad things don't happen, dear.

Don't be afraid.

Sooner or later he will be caught.

Don't tell anyone what's happened, Yunus Efendi.

It's a family matter. I can't wash my dirty linen in public.

We will solve it within the family.

People gossip. Promise me...

You won't tell this to the sheikh.

What say you, Qadi Efendi?

Hiding justice is a sin.

Come on.

Lean on me.

Are the dervishes giving out our ashura, Kasim?

As you ordered, they are not leaving anyone out.

That's good.

Are the people coming?

They are filling the courtyard.

It's been a prosperous year, mashallah.

Tell me, molla. Say it.

Yunus has not yet returned, sir.

He will, he will.

He will come back.

He has a unique sense of duty.

What's happening? What is this?

I don't know.

-Kira, quick, girl, quick!

What happened, Bayram Effendi?

-We were hunting, Mikel Effendi. -Let it go.

It was a strange hunter's arrow.

Is there any order left? It's not clear who's the hunter, who's the prey.

Shall we burn it?

Here, bite this. Bite.

Only the one's who's been shot understands the deer.

Hold on, just a little longer.

Put them down.

Bring me some gauze.

We were just leaving to the lodge for Ashura. You came right on time.

If Yunus Efendi...

hadn't encountered me, I would have bled to death.

No one bleeds to death, they die because it's their time.

Kira!

Give it to me, girl.

Hold still.

Almost done.

Hold it tight.

It's good to go, Bayram Effendi. Be careful though.

You should keep the wound covered.

Come on, Kira.

Thank God for sending you, Yunus Efendi.

Had it not been for you, what would have become of me?

I do not know.

We should think of not the one who arrives but the one who sends him.

It wasn't a coincidence up on the mountain.

We missed Ashura this year.

Let me get home.

Hold on, stay there. We have things to do.

I can't face the sheikh without completing my mission.

Let my pain pass a little we will get to it in the morning.

No!

I will go and get the gardening tools from the lodge.

I don't know how I'll manage it without being seen.

This is all, Bayram Aga. Now, you go and rest.

God bless you, Mikel Effendi.

May you prosper.

Kira, come on, girl, we are late for the lodge!

Master Yunus, are you not coming to the lodge?

I don't know.

Get well soon. Soon.

Let's go.

Kira.

Kira, will you stay at Bacim Sultan's or come back home with me?

-Is it okay if I stay? -Of course, my dear.

Tapduk Efendi is my friend. Our doors are always open to each other.

Good, if I'm to stay I'll let you know after the gathering.

Okay, let's go then.

Go.

They throw 40 geese in 40 different pots...

and boil them for 40 days.

For what?

Can one discipline one's ego without burning it?

The goose symbolises the self.

It wants food, it wants comfort...

It desires too much of everything.

That goose runs after anything worldly.

Now, hold it and put it in a pot.

We add 40 types of nuts into ashura...

and keep boiling it in pots.

40 is just an anology.

Friends add just 12 kinds of nuts.

I've already told you that it represents the 12 Imams.

What do these 12 imams do?

Who are they?

What's their job?

They represent the oneness of God.

Now, they never say...

'Come here! I perform miracles'.

What did Hazrat Ahmad Yasawi, peace be upon him, say?

"They wear a turban and search for disciples..."

"alas, they have no knowledge, those doomsday sheikhs."

"They embrace the world but run away when they are challenged,"

"They keep spreading disbelief, those doomsday sheikhs."

The ancestors of those doomsday sheikhs...

shed Hazrat Hussain's blood on the soil of Karbala.

Karbala is such a place...

of agony and affliction.

The land of agony and affliction.

Though his grandfather, God's messenger...

had told him that this would happen.

"I come from the soil, my essence is from the soil,"

I will go to the soil.

"My soul yearns to reach for God."

Everything yearns to reach him.

Would Master Yasawi ever say a word in vain?

Don't tell anyone what's happened, Yunus Efendi.

It's a family matter. I can't wash my dirty linen in public.

I can't face the Sheikh without completing my mission.

What will I tell my sheikh?

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.

Good morning.

May you have a blessed morning, sir..

Let's live and see.

Is Yunus back?

I've just checked his room, sheikh. He is not back yet.

He will be back. He will.

I'm worried that something bad might have happened to him.

One only worries about one's friends.

Have you brought them back, Yunus?

Yes, sheikh, I have.

So you have given up on the "I do not know" dhikr.

Of course, not, sheikh.

You see to the morning gathering, Kasim.

Come here, come along.

Is Bayram Aga well enough to forge the tools?

His apprentices have forged them.

Doctor Mikel Effendi told me. Good.

What matters is to complete the mission.

Then, I must assign you a new duty.

Here, take this.

This shall be your new duty.

You'll take care of Karabas.

Until she is tamed, you are responsible for her.

THE JOURNEY OF LOVE

Is Bayram Aga well enough to forge the tools?

His apprentices have forged them, sheikh.

Doctor Mikel Effendi told me. Good.

What matters is to complete the mission.

Then, I must assign you a new duty.

Here, take this.

This shall be your new duty.

You'll take care of Karabas.

Until she is tamed, you are responsible for her.

My wife prepared its food.

Ask her to fill the bowl.

-May I come in? -Come on in, Yunus Effendi.

Welcome and good morning.

The sheikh told me to fetch the dog's food.

Oh, let me first put this down.

Dear, Yunus Efendi is here, take care of him.

The sheikh told me to get the dog's food.

It's there.

Have a good morning.

O people!

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Cadi of Divrigi, son of Mubariz, Cadi Ilyas Efendi...

has been inducted as Nallihan's new cadi!

Soon he will arrive and assume position!

Everyone should hear this!

Peace be upon you, gentlemen.

-And upon you. -And upon you.

May your efforts pay off.

We make the efforts, may God grant us pay offs.

What, hasn't Bayram Aga returned from hunting?

He has, but our master...

had a little accident. He was shot with an arrow.

By whom?

Azmi Aga?

No, sheikh, by a stranger hunter.

He's okay, but he's resting at home.

Good luck with your work, gentlemen.

Peace be upon you, gentlemen. Good day.

And upon you, sheikh.

Azmi Aga, can I have a word with you?

What's happening, sheikh? What is it?

Go check the house to see if something's needed.

Azmi Aga, I wouldn't dare...

to teach manners to masters like yourself.

I would be ashamed to.

What's that, sheikh? Have I done wrong in my trading?

Is an Ahi's duty just being right about trading, sir?

Is this what we teach at Ahi gatherings?

If you can't hold your hand or tongue what good is your right trading?

Who cares? It's not a sheikh...

you gossip about but a farmer, but still unacceptable.

You must hold your tongue.

One of Ahis' duties is this.

It happens to be...

that my duty is to make sure it is applied.

And take precautions when needed.

Are you here, Yunus?

I died, sheikh.

I died.

I died and came back.

I wanted to give you an important mission, Yunus.

As you order, sheikh.

From now on you should do the cleaning around the lodge.

Keep the rooms and the courtyard clean all the time.

The toilets are the most important ones.

From now on you shall always say, "I don't know".

Whoever asks you anything...

just say, "I don't know".

This shall be your new mission. You'll take care of Karabash.

Until she is tamed, you are responsible for her.

Is this the treatment you deserve?

May I come in?

I do not know.

You had us wondering.

Tell me.

Where were you the whole night? What happened?

I don't know.

I don't think the sheikh

has assigned anyone the "I don't know" dhikr before.

In the end, you completed your mission...

and now the sheikh has assigned you a new duty.

I don't know.

In our way...

completing every mission the sheikh assigns is the manner.

Without questioning it at all.

Obviously, he assigned you...

a new task in the morning.

I do not know.

Well, then.

If you'll excuse me, friend.

Did you come here to perform dhikr and open your heart or be tortured?

Go face him. Tell him everything you hold within.

If he is your sheikh, you mustn't keep anything from him.

Go face him. Say, "I have completed my mission".

"What have I done to deserve this treatment?"

Where is it?

Where is Karabas?

I don't know, sheikh.

Do not say 'I know', do know that you do not know.

It must be gone, sheikh.

If you let it loose, of course it’ll run away.

It's not disciplined nor has it been educated.

Once it's satisfied its worldly desires, of course it'll take off.

Go find it at once and bring it back.

One must put a leash on those that aren't disciplined.

If it persists, put the leash on it and drag it here.

Look in the market. Look at every corner, every street, every shop.

Where they give her food, there she will be.

-I saw Yunus by the door. -What was he up to?

I don't know. He stood there with a dog leash in his hand.

-A leash? -Yeah, he was holding it.

It means Karabas escaped again.

Peace be upon you.

Peace be upon you. May your day be bountiful.

And upon you.

Has Bayram Aga not started working?

We worked until the morning, sir.

He just went home to rest.

Hasn't Aktar Husnu opened the shop?

His new apprentice turned out to be worthless. He just vanished.

He must be resting after the hunt.

Both the prey and the hunter are having a rest.

Welcome, sheikh. Such an honour.

Thank you.

If you have time...

you should drink the sherbet that we've made.

Your offer is as sweet as sherbet, Mesud Aga.

How are...

the Ahis doing, friend Mesud?

Thank you, sheikh.

They are the same as everyone is.

Don't the caravans come and go?

Bandits have raided a couple of them at Alaiye.

Not only us, even the ones from the Aydinids are saying the same thing.

In Niksar, the Danishmendids are charged with heavy tax.

By Vizier Muinuddin Pervane.

The vizier works but for whom?

People might consider this a business issue.

But it is unity, order and peace at stake, Mesud.

You are describing the state, sheikh.

Let the traitors set up an ambush.

The guard of the property is not in the palace in Konya.

It's the ones who crop the soil, and forge the iron.

Well, tell me about the Ahis. I almost forgot.

Kececi Azmi Aga has been a fool and is in the wrong.

If you know what happened, don't give him hard time.

We have given him the necessary warning.

Maybe it's not Kececi who is the fool...

but us, friend Mesud.

Not you, sheikh.

We are all witnesses of what took place.

But since the rules of the organisation are written on the walls...

one may neither slander the lodge...

nor anyone else in this town.

This is one of the rules.

Welcome. Come in, sir.

Can I help you?

What are you looking for?

If you're free, honour our gathering with your presence, sheikh?

I'm not free, friend, I have important things to do.

If you are free, we can take care of them together.

We can, sheikh, we can.

What is this?

Snake poison. Don't be scared. It's not a snake, just the poison.

Where does your father obtain this?

He extracts them out of snakes.

Poison is the most effective medicine.

It is both poison and medicine.

How does Uncle Mikel exctract poison out of a snake?

Does he catch them and kill them for their poison?

He doesn't kill them.

Do you know Ahi Evran? A tanner.

Have you heard his name? He also is a doctor.

Of course, I have.

He is the master of all Ahis.

He's founded the Ahi Brotherhood.

My father met him in Kayseri.

He taught him that when winter sets in...

and snakes sleep deep in hibernation...

he extracts their poison and lets them go.

Does Uncle Mikel know Ahi Evran?

Welcome, Yunus Effendi.

He had a dog leash in his hand.

He is looking for the dog.

-Peace be upon you. -And upon you.

May you have a prosperous day.

God bless you, sheikh.

Amin, sheikh.

What are you looking for, Yunus Effendi?

What are you looking for, Yunus Effendi?

Thank you. May God grant you more.

The sheikh's order is ready.

-Is it complete? -It is, master.

Three yards.

Well, sheikh...

it's not really a burden...

This is a whole different thing.

So...

we should get going.

Get our load, Kasim.

Do you have something to tell me, Azmi Effendi?

I don't, sheikh.

If you do, let me know.

Mesud Aga told me the Ahis would punish me.

But it is not true that I gossip about you, sheikh.

Say all you want behind my back, Azmi Effendi.

The word belongs to its owner.

But I don't want you to torture anyone because of me.

As I don't want anyone to be tortured because of me.

Now, take care of yourself.

It's not like I will ask you where to send my wife to.

Both the Ahis and the sheikh give me no peace!

The Cadi is looking for the dog with a leash in his hand.

Karabas is just a stray dog.

Yunus Effendi doesn't know her very well.

If he did, would he be looking for the dog in the market place?

You are looking for the dog I suppose.

I can't find it anywhere.

It's in a dilemma: should it guard the lodge or wander around freely?

In addition, it is rather proud.

It can't stand being scolded, or receiving bad food.

If you are to hit it...

put his wishes away from it, it will cause you trouble.

I looked for him everywhere in Nallihan.

But it is nowhere to be found.

It is a stray dog.

What would it do in the market place?

It doesn't like crowds.

It doesn't like being with people.

Look in the market. Look at every corner, every street, every shop.

Wherever they give it food that's where it will go to.

Search the country.

Search the fountains...

the fields.

Would it not go to the market place?

It wouldn't.

It wanders around in the mountains idly.

Well, then.

-Good evening. -To you, too.

Allahu akbar Allahu akbar .

Allahu akbar Allahu akbar .

What if we don't talk today?

I don't feel much like talking today.

Some of you might like to do the talking instead.

Some of you might have things to do.

Then we should gather and talk tomorrow.

So...

in this case...

you may leave, friends.

You stay, Minberci.

You should go take care of your things, Kasim.

Let me have a couple words with Hasan Aziz.

I consider seclusion fit for you, son.

This should be done at certain times.

Ashura is one of those times...

and going into seclusion at Ashura is a sign of sainthood.

It is obligatory for a disciple.

Tomorrow, after the Isha prayer, you should go into seclusion.

However you prepare yourself for fasting...

that's how you prepare yourself for seclusion.

This is the way of it.

Above all...

...it is necessary to be washed off of earthly dirt.

Until then don't forget the things I taught you.

Dhikr first disciplines the tongue and then the self.

Now, go and get ready.

Take what you will, give what you will.

Seclusion is a journey.

You can't go without having blessings.

You can't come out without giving blessings.

What I say is the method.

Don't you neglect.

Remember.

There is a way of doing everything.

If you want to reach the destination you'll take the journey suitably.

Look in the market. Look at every corner, every street, every shop.

Where they give him food, there he will be.

He is a stray dog.

What would it do in the market place?

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Peace be upon you.

And upon you.

I've come to have your blessings, Yunus Effendi.

I am going into seclusion.

You have my blessings.

You have mine, as well.

Now, let's go, we are going to the lodge.

O people! Hear ye! Hear ye!

Cadi of Divrigi, son of Mubariz, Cadi Ilyas Effendi...

has been inducted as Nallihan's new cadi!

-Isn't that Cadi Effendi? -What cadi?

-The Cadi that resigned, Yunus Effendi. -No way.

Yes, it's him.

Get this dog away from me.

The deranged who can’t look after himself has gone and got a dog.

I saw it in my dream last night.

You passed the approval exam and became a qadi in a big city.

They say that dreams mean the opposite.

Then you'll marry a beautiful woman and forget about us.

Is it what you want for yourself or for me, Ilyas?

May you always serve justice.

We should not dream a big city for ourselves, Ilyas...

but for the sake of struggle and effort.

Yunus?

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Where is the apricot from, woman?

From Malatya.

Sheikh Hasan Effendi's disciples sent them.

I remember.

He got it from Mevlana's father, Bahattin Veled, may he rest in peace.

Was Mevlana's father in Malatya, father?

Why is his lodge in Konya then?

His father came to Malatya at first, dear.

After leaving Balkh for pilgrimage...

he came to Malatya through Damascus.

Mevlana was a young boy back then.

It is said that...

even Sheik Akbar Ibn-i Arabi saw him in Damascus.

Mevlana was walking right behind his father.

Sheikh Ekber, seeing this...

wondered of it.

An ocean walks behind a sea.

Did they stay in Malatya?

From there he first went to Erzincan.

From then he moved to Karaman...

and became a guest at Emir Mahmut's for some time.

After some time...

Mevlana Sultan arrived in Konya.

Dear...

get some milk and prepare food for the dog.

Where is the dog?

Is Yunus back?

I'll take a look, father.

Thank God.

Let me go and pray.

-Thank you, woman. -Enjoy.

Thank you, dear.

Let me go and see if Karabas is back yet.

All right.

I wanted to see if it was back and to give it food.

I hope it didn't take so long to find him.

I found it in the forest.

On the other side of the market place.

I don't know why my Sheikh Father told you to look for it in the market place.

Have a blissful evening.

You, too, Yunus Effendi.

What's that, dear?

Nothing, mother.

I was going to feed the dog but I forgot.

Has Yunus Effendi brought it?

He found it in the forest.

But my father told him to check the market and the shops.

I don't know why.

You don't have to know everything, dear.

Come on.

Looking at the appearance...

people forgot the essence.

We were chatting at a gathering like this one...

one of the devotees got up and asked something.

Everyone left praying and started loafing around.

And then you ask where the Devil is.

Is the Devil here or there?

Where would he be?

He is both here and there.

With all the tricks under his sleeve...

do you think the walls of the Kaaba...

or of the lodge...

will keep the Devil away?

If stones would protect people from the Devil...

they would be sold in the Baghdad market.

Have I told you the legend of Beyazidi Bestami...

when he was visiting Hajj?

He was on the road.

The stars were his guide. He passed over deserts and reached Mecca.

He circumambulated the Kaaba.

Having finished his duty...

and as he was leaving the Kaaba's courtyard...

lo and behold...

he saw the Devil at door of the Kaaba!

He was leaning on the door...

in his arm, up until his elbows, horse leashes.

He, of course, recognised the Devil, right there and then.

His Holiness knows the Devil when he sees him.

That's a different subject.

This is not its place.

Bestami Hazrat recognised him at once, as well.

He was surprised.

He thought to himself what the Devil was doing at the door of the Kaaba.

He asked, "What are you doing here?"

The Devil showed the horse leashes up until his elbow.

"Mine are circumambulating."

"I'm waiting for them to finish."

And then...

"I will put these leashes on them and ride them" he added.

And then Beyazidi Bestami Hazrat looked at the Devil and asked...

"Am I one of those you wait for?"

The Devil, then, looked at him...

and laughed at him mockingly.

Then he leaned forward and whispered...

"I could ride you without a leash", he said.

So...

this is the fact of the matter.

Cagri Effendi.

Will you say anything about this matter?

No, thank you, sheikh.

Anyway...

Briefly...

some time later...

Beyazidi Bestami...

left Mecca for his hometown.

He hit the road again.

Passed deserts and endless fields.

Passing deserts, he reached a creek.

Just as His Holiness rolled up his sleeves...

to pass the creek...

he saw that on the side of the creek...

under a tree...

was an old, white-bearded, blind man, under a tree.

He went near him...

to ask him how he was.

The old man said, "My eyes don't see, son."

"I'm on my way back from Mecca but I can't cross the water."

Beyazidi Bestami felt sad...

for this poor, white-bearded man.

Immediately he picked the man up...

and went into the creek.

The water roughened up.

As they were crossing the creek...

they came halfway through...

when the old man started to whisper to Bestami Hazrat.

And said, "Haven't I told you that I could ride you without a leash?"

Where is the Devil then?

You may find him 'here' or 'there'.

Don't be arrogant thinking he would be away from you.

He would ride you without a leash.

Even if you are Beyazidi Bestami Hazrat...

the thing is, one should know...

that both 'here' and 'there' are within you.

"I didn't fit into the heavens."

"I only fit into My believer's heart."

Here.

What does this mean?

Thus, whatever you look for, it's neither here nor there.

Look for it within yourself.

Both here and there are within you.