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ONEness of HEARTs
VOLUME 2
Part 38

16 August 1974

I am Mevlana.
“Ya Allah,” we said,
We left our load on earth.
We were filled with love from heart;
The more we were filled, the more we expanded,
The more we expanded, the more we rose.

The one who seeks in the desert finds what?
What does he/she see at the border?
Whom does he/she find, whom does he/she take from?
Where does he/she give the one that he/she takes?
He/she melts there, he/she arrives there.
Is arrival not the finding?
Let one not be among the ones who bend forward,
Let one not be loaded with its [earth’s] load.
Let one not take from earth [? ground/soil ?]. [let one not think that he/she gets the harvest because he/she planted]
What you will take, what you will give is from HIM, is to HIM.

If you say, “Where did I come from, where will I go to?” [note to the reader: this is one of the ways to wish for The Meaning…]
Then you find support for yourself.
You tie the body to earth,
You see your spirit in the body.
If you say, “I conformed to the coming, I came to my senses for the going,”
[then] You open your heart to the universe.
If you say, “Is this the essence of the word?”
Word is not enough, essence does not end.
“To be” [The Reality] is the essence of “not to be."
“Not to be” is the word of earth. ["not to be" belongs to earth / earth is image]
Once you erase the word, you find the essence.
At the place where the word [matter] ends, the essence starts;
“Mirac” is that. [Mirac==Prophet Mohammad’s ascent to heaven while he was on earth in body]
To the one who says, “What is Mirac?”
Say:
“Erase the word, find the essence!”

Say to the one who says, “Earth is unnecessary”:
My Allah does not create the one that is unnecessary.
If it is not necessary, HE does not make HIS human live on earth.
Earth is beautiful for the one who lives.
If you say, “How?”
“To live” is “to become a united whole with The Beautiful One,”
["to live" is] Not "to play with stone, with lime":
[to live is:]
To see the stone as beautiful at its place,
To find the water as beautiful in deep,
To love the air when it is cool.

Let hearts be all one,
Let your day come as blessed,
Let your joy be shared.

Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]

21 August 1974

I am Mevlana.
The one who says, “What is it?”
We took a glance at the smoke
Of the one who seeks question in the event. [the one who questions the event]
We said word about him/her saying, “The one that happens, the one that does not happen.”
WHO educates, WHAT grinds
The one who is [spiritually] mature,
The one who is [spiritually] immature,
The one who does not know HIS path?

You respect the bunch [of humans], you place [them] beyond; [you consider them as worthy]
When you say, "Let me put in order,"
You find the hand in hand.[humans hold hand in hand to help you]
If you say, “Let him/her stay, let the new one come [instead of him/her],” [if you do not like him/her and if you wait for another person to come]
Then you lose the old one too.
Be not from the ones who disorder, but from the ones who gather [unite one with another].
Find salvation in 'being united altogether.'
When “order of the earth is corrupt” is said, who is the one who corrupts?
The one who does not gather the one who is dispersed of course.

If the one whom you remember does not take the new one,
Do you not turn to the old one?
In the event that you can turn, why do you seek the new one?
Each tree gives the fruit of its [own] structure.

“Not happening” is because it is not written. [writing==destiny that God writes in every moment]
If you set the intention up for the one that will not happen,
Why do you seek fault in the one that does not happen?
When you put mortar to the building, do you leave its stone as missing? [do you put less stones than it is necessary?]
Do you close the door and pass? [do you build wall in the opening left for a door?]

Say to the one who goes through the game [of earth life]: [say to the one who takes the test on earth:]
Return of the sand is "staying of the human."
For the one who sees as beautiful, it is the thought of heart.
Do not look for cause in being [a] guest [on earth],
It is "being human for return [to after earth life]."
[Previous verses may be better understood under the light of the following information: human who is successful in the test on earth takes his/her place in after earth life like a sand grain that has its place in the foundation of a building...]

Omar says:
Similar to
How what is being traced is seen,
How the destiny is woven,
How one goes step by step
Are not denied,
It can never be denied either that events are written to the destiny.
If it is written, why does one revolt against each event?
Is there any one who writes more beautifully?
Is there any one who changes the one that is written?
Let us take the one that happens at the place where it happens, [? Let us take the one that happens on earth where it happens, ?]
Let us know that HAK writes most beautifully.
Let us not set up intention, let it happen, let us come to our senses.
I gave [explained] “to come to one's senses,” long [time] ago,
I showed one by one:
HE shows what HE will give,
Even if you do not go, HE brings [it] to your foot.
There is no need to search saying, "Let me find."
What you will find, Allah puts in front of you.
What you will not find,
Even if you encage the universe within [a] circle,
It will escape your eye. [you still won't see it]
If HIS human's health will recover,
My Allah makes [him/her] conform to what HE gives,
Makes what will pass, be heard.

Let smokes be dispersed,
Let pleadings be made.
Let word be put in bundle and be put away.
To add word to word mixes the past with the future,
Increases human’s smoke.
Be entrusted to my Allah.

Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]

2 September 1974

I am Mevlana.
My Yunus
Does not know distance,
Does not divide human by human, [does not discriminate]
Does not stay [away] from the one who wishes,
Does not dive into stony path. [does not go on stony path]
The rose that he took/takes, does not wilt.
HAK does not erase what he says.

Let my Allah be pleased
With the one who comes, with the one who knows,
With the one who takes the hand in hand.
Let him/her know with [our] saying, let him/her [spiritually] mature with vision, [vision==to see HIM in HIS creations]
Let him/her laugh with all [humans],
Let him/her say the oath when he/she comes [to after earth life].

Does The One Who is The Owner not know?
Does the one who says, “Destiny,” not see?
Does he/she not ask [about] the one who wishes and comes? [does he/she not ask about the saints?]
Let my Allah be pleased,
Let the night of all humans, be ember in hearts.

We took from the one who comes, we asked from the one who knows.
“He/she takes his/her place, he/se knows [it] because of the surgeon,” is said. [he/she gets well after the surgery, he/she thinks that this is thanks to the surgeon [he/she does not think that this is thanks to HIM...]]
How is it said, whom is it asked from?
Hardship is to the one who feels [it as hardship],
Heaven is to the one who finds.
If you ask [about] his/her place:
Do you ask the place
Of the one who goes step by step,
Of the one who knows that HAK is in his/her heart?
Do you interpret it as his/her hardship?

One does not say about the beauty of the thorn.
Yet, rose is not plucked roughly, why?
Because of its thorn.
If it is like that, is its thorn ugly?

Swaddle is wrapped, human’s heart is sifted:
Some [of them] have fun, some [of them] learn.
As such, it is seen that human is human, that he/she takes his/her place.
Humanity is neither in education nor in inspection;
[it is] In
What his/her heart takes,
That he/she knows The Giver,
That he/she gives What he/she knows.

You say about birth by looking at the day;
Yet, there are so many births in night too.
The language of the merchandise is difficult for human [because]
What is being consulted about is to 'beyond the return [to after earth life].'
Because of HIS hikmet that makes grow[/develop], that makes one come together [? that makes one find ?].
Let one not say, “Is [it] new?”
Because of birth,
Novelty from birth is because of The Giving.

For the taste of the chat,
For The Name of The Close Friend,
For the remembrance of “the post,” [post==congregation to unite in ONE]
We said, “Hu.” [hu==there is no other God but Allah]
We have been among the ones who say[, "Hu"].
We took the hand of the one
Who is at HIS summit,
Who takes since birth.
“Hand of close friend,” we said.
We increased [the number of the] close friend[s] of the one
Who comes to our nest, [nest==Mevlana's/Garib's congregation]
Who says, “Chat is [word from] HAK.”
The One Who increases [the number of close friends] is of course HAK.
The heart of the one who says, “Hand of close friend,” is pure.
Let us hold hand in hand, let us all be one,
Let us set ONEness up with all [humans].
Let us not say, “We found the morning, night will not come.”
Let us not erase from our heart what the night gives.
Is The Creator not The Creator of the night?
Is The One Who created/creates the rich, not The Protector of the poor?
If HE tests your patience, be among the ones who are loved,
Know [that] HIS Attribute [is] upon yourself.

Beyond the effort is his/her amazement.
Beyond the birth is his/her salvation.
If you say, “Is there place beyond the return [to after earth life]?”
“There is the summit,” I say.
Beyond you, is secret.
Beyond the secret is Darling, the return is benefit to human.

Do not say, “I can not take," do not say, "I can not erase.”
Do not peel yourself off the event.
If you do not search from there, if you do not ask here,
Try!
What the [spiritual] maturation will give is of course not division.
The future of the human is of course not “staying [on earth].”
The Writer put the criterion,
Human is kneaded with HAK,
Hand of close friend found his/her dough.
Come and join you too!
Plunge into the ocean of heart like this. [ocean==God]

Let one not say,
Eyvallah,” for the one who matures [spiritually],
[let one not say,] “Fallacious,” for the one who does not mature.
The one who does not mature is the stirrup of the one who matures.
Stirrup is the balance of the human.
Hurricane burns, destroys,
Yet, it purifies the one who matures [spiritually] and the one who does not.
...
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"Prostrating oneself," “ruku” are to HIM. [ruku=bowing the head and at the same time putting the palms of one's hands on one's knees (done while standing, as a part of the namaz)]
Whirling is to be with HIM.
What is meant by 'sema,' is "to add the taking, the giving to the heart." [sema==worship performed by 'whirling dervishes' while they dance and whirl]
Transfer what you take, to heart,
[however,] Let it not stay in heart.
Let it come from one hand, let [it] enter the heart,
Let one give from the other hand.
Let one see not the one who calls, but all [humans].

The one who matures [spiritually] quickly is taken, the one that is dust is erased.
The one who comes as close friend, is loved,
The one who knows close friend, is seen;
So much is given to him/her,
One embraces close friend in a close friendly manner.
One comes to the "post" with permission. [post==congregation to unite in ONE]


My Yunus says:
I passed, I saw.
I counted leaf on each branch.
I said, “Hand of close friend," I was satiated with Close Friend,
I saw nothing but Darling.
If there is fire in heart,
If one stays weak in the sun,
There is water to extinguish.
I am in the tongue of the one who stays,
I am on the path of the one who knows,
I am on his/her right, on his/her left,
I am in the heart of the one who loves.
If you say to the sun, “Don’t burn!” I fade [I go out].
If you say to the universe, “Stop!” I oppose The Writer.
The rain that will fall [? The blessing that will shower ?] waits for HIS human.
At the vineyard that will ripen, bees wait. [nearby the grapes that ripen, bees wait]
In the word of each human there is the Name of HAK.
We remembered HIS Name,
Let us know our place.
Let us take our word from Mevlana.
At the chat of Friday, let us take the pleading.
Let us connect the end of our day to new day.
Let us say, “Eyvallah,” to all of you.
Be entrusted to Allah.

We opened door to be entered.
We gave the “post” so that it is given. [post==congregation to unite in ONE]
When the door is opened, no measure stays [there is no measure].
“It is to be given” is [means] "to be handed over to the one who comes."
It is given not to the one who says, “Give,”
But to the one who says, “Ember.”  [make my heart burn so that it becomes ember…]
It is given not to the one who burns [harms] other human,
But to the one whose heart is burning.
“How do we know?” is not said:
He/she does not take, he/she finds in his/her hand.
He/she does not come, he/she is called.
The place of the one who says, “It matured [it ripened]," is because of its falling:
“Post” is under the tree,
What falls to the "post," is from his/her God-given share.

Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]

3 September 1974

I am Mevlana.
The one who undertakes the new one, is the one who erases the old one,
Is the one who differentiates the event.

'To be unconcerned' is not 'to disobey HIS Word.'

If you say, "Is the path in me?"
It is in the one that opens. [if you are on the path that we open [for all humans]...]

The shadow of The Reality does not fall upon image; [because there is no shadow in The Reality]
[the relationship between The Reality and the image]
Does not go beyond 'taking [and] giving.'

If you swing the swing, it goes forward, backward,
However, it erases the trouble that it gives.
“What does it mean?” is said.
[events are like a swinging swing:]
Happening of the event is its birth to your day;
[like a] Swing [it] goes and comes between birth and setting. [like between sunrise and sunset]
Let one not think that one goes forward.
If you say, “Why?”
The tie of the swing blocks one’s path.
Let one get off the swing so that one moves forward.

The one that does not spin is not useful for the mill.

Is the going of the one who can not stop, is his/her “finding HIS path,” beautiful?
However he/she goes, coming is to the hour that is written.

Each event is in hope.
At the place where the mirror is,
At the place where human finds,
Vision widens. [vision==to see HIM in HIS creations]

The one who does not take, does not come,
The one who does not see, does not know, [vision==to see HIM in HIS creations]
He/she does not find [him/herself] in the center.
It is not coming of the word [our word is not said just for the sake of being said],
It is [spiritual] maturation of the one who comes.

Do not think that the door of the heaven is closed,
Do not think the flame of the hell is covered:
Heaven is
The one that is opened,
[heaven is] 'Conforming to what is being said,'
[heaven is] 'Looking at the day that comes.'

Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]

6 September 1974

I am Mevlana.
In cloth belt, there is none that is tight.

Does one [ever] see anyone who gives up The Beautiful One?

Is the earth beautiful or [is] the apex [beautiful]?
It is said, “Darling is Beautiful.”

More beautiful than beautiful, autumn leaf from The Beautiful One.
“Let us open the vision, [but] how?” is being said. [vision==to see HIM in HIS creations]
The one who knows The Giver, sees.

Reality is sought beyond each event that is called “fake;”
However, the one that is beyond the fake is accused.

Is the book that is not opened, known?
Is “the writing that that is not written,” seen?
Is grape that did not ripen, put on display?

To the ones who became guest and came,
To the ones who said, “Let us chat,”
We said, “Eyvallah,” we greeted all of you.

My Yunus says:
Let the basket be in hand, however, let its top be covered,
Let the one that is inside be known by its owner.
Let the one that will be distributed, be opened. [let only the one that will be given, be taken out of the basket]

The one who knows close friend, has of course abundant close friends.

The one who takes the jug in the hand,
The one who knows the path, who comes to the water,
What he/she will bring [back] is known, what is known is waited for.
[on the other hand,]
The path of the one who becomes traveler and goes,
What the one who is pedestrian, will bring
Is only his/her God-given share.
There is of course no mistake:
Let us conform not to what HE makes happen but to HIS Being.
What HE makes happen is HIS Giving,
HIS Being is HIS Display.
The Giving is taken, The Display is seen, one conforms to What is seen.

In interrogation, let there be fault but no doubt. [during the interrogation when one migrates to after earth life, one will be asked about his/her doubt, not about his/her unintentional mistakes…]
Let one know that what is being given is the one that is written.
Let one conform to destiny.
One does not go beyond the line, what is written is not changed.
Why? Because The Writer does not fall in fault.
Has it ever been seen that HAK fell in fault?


With pleading HE shows the reality, [HE] does not change the line.

Wait by the grapevine, eat its grape like that. [be patient until its grape ripens, then eat it]
The One Who thinks what is in [one's] arms is not human:
The Creator sees, each event finds HIS order [orderliness].
We are not tired of course:
Strength is in the one who comes;
The one who is not dispersed is in the one who is chosen.
Let us take the chat, let us stay without interrogation.

What is transferred from heart to heart is love of close friend.
What is transferred from human to human is the judgment of HAK.
We put knee on HIS path,
We put knee in HIS vineyard,
We put heart to HIS mountain. [to put heart==to fall in love]
We held hand in hand, we became one on mountain, in vineyard;
We set heart connection up with all [humans].
We wandered around so that he/she takes,
So that he/she gives from hand to hand [? from human to human ?],
So that all [humans] love one another.
One will be connected with love, close friendship will be celebrated like that.

Guest does not wait from guest.
The one who does not know, does not add to the one who knows.
Let the one who knows give, let the one who does not know conform.

We have no stop of course.
Because “to stop” is to put point[/period] to the end.
There is never “end,” there is “passing.”
What is meant by “passing,” is of course migration [to after earth life].
However, no emptiness [empty space] occurs during migration.

What you took on earth, earth never gives [it to you].
Earth is not yours
Even if you say, “I am there,”
Even if you take the one that does not exist.
“What is the one that does not exist?” is being said.
The one that does not belong to you, does it exist?
Earth that does not belong to you, is it benefit?
The one that exists within The Reality, is the shadow of The Reality.
Let us find in the shadow so that we arrive in its [shadow's] Reality.
Before arriving at its Reality, do not erase the shadow,
However, do not say, “The shadow is mine.”

The distance is not as much as it is thought of.
Even if it is said, “In the moment of birth,”
The stage that is crossed is from the birth to the passing.
Is distance seen in the point[/dot]?
The One Who puts the point is HAK, the one who sees is human.
I gave humanity before: [I already said what humanity is:]
I did not say, “Each one who is born, sees.”
When it is said, “What did you take, what did you see, what did you give?”
Let human give the answer first in his/her “real self,” [in his/her essence]
Let him/her not say, “I can not give.”
[spiritual] Education  is that he/she prepares him/herself to [for] humanity.

We are not corrupt, eyvallah.
We saw HIS sand, we have been grain in HIS sand.
We added to the path of HAK,
We waited so that HIS human knew.
We saw the [water] well, we walked.
In the sun, we laid the pileless carpet in the shade
So that the one who burns comes and sits,
So that he/she brings with him/her what he/she takes.
If you say, “What is the one that I take?” It is the one that you love. [? If you say, “What is The One That I take?” It is The One That you love. ?]
You take as much as you love, you bring when you go [to after earth life].
What does shah take? … HIS Giving.

Be entrusted to my Allah,
Find together with all [humans].
Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]

[Texts written between square brackets and some punctuation are added for the sake of making the meaning clearer.]

LOVE, SEE & SHARE:

Love all HIS creations;
See HIM in all of HIS creations;
Share HIS Meaning.

© Sabahat Akþiray (Garib)
Translated by Tamer Özel