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ONEness of HEARTs
VOLUME 2
Part 40

23 October 1974

I am Mevlana.
In each event where helmet is worn, [in each event] which traveler participates in,
Cheering is seen. [traveler==human taking the test on earth]

What the walker conforms to, is that he/she hears the one who calls.

If you look for footprint on snow, the going of the path is not found;
Because when day passes no footprint stays on the snow.
For that [reason] do not stay in temporary direction,
Do not divide the direction of the going.
Do not conform to the one whom you call 'deaf,'
[at the same time,] Do not break his/her heart because he/she does not hear what you say.
Think of the one who hears.
Human to whom you say, “You do not see unless your eye is open,” [“you are blind, you can not see”]
You can not know where his/her vision reaches.
For that [reason],
Say [bad] word about neither the one who can not see nor the one who can not hear.

Our law
Orders [us] to conform to what happens,
[our law] Teaches to know the destiny.
If you say, “Is the destiny known?”
The One Who writes the destiny knows.
When one conforms to HIM,
One says “Eyvallah, to whatever HE wrote.
Hence, destiny is “Eyvallah.”
When we say this, do we not become as knowing the destiny?

Child is home’s color, sound, joy;
Therefore, each new birth changes the color, the sound.

When sun comes, it even dries the mud. [sun==Prophet Mohammad]

Mix the silver with gold; what changes? Its color. [silver==matter; gold==spiritual meaning]

If you break the marble, if you mix [it] with stone, it becomes soft;
Does the softness come from the stone or the marble?

What you look for in the sun’s color, you can not find [it] on earth;
However, the sun gave all its colors to flowers.
When you say, “I can not hold the sun, I can not reach it,”
Then you forget about the flowers.
One can of course not reach the sun, however, one may become one [with the sun].
When you take the flower in your hand, did you see its color?
Did you know The One Who makes it exist?

Oath does not make the progress of your day change.

Even though it is said, “Face [is] the apparition of the ethics [morals],”
Look not for beautiful but for beauty that is hidden in the face.
Look for [it] in him/her so that you find your own beauty.

If the kettle comes in hand as empty, you complain,
You think about consulting.
Let my Allah fill the kettle of HIS each human
As much as his/her God-given share.

If the colors of the face do not conform [to one another]
You say, “Far from the giving of the sun, or close [to the giving of the sun].”
In the color of Arabs, burning one of the sun is seen.
My Yunus says:
In the separation of the races, knot of the earth is hidden.
However,
No earth eye that will see that, is present.
My Allah gave the key of the science to earth;
“Promenade, see, solve!” HE said.
HE gave as example
Fish for submarine,
Bird for airplane.
Each one that HE created is key to human’s science.

The being of the one that does not exist can not be proven.

I am Yunus, I say according to my hal,
I present one kettle of 'ayran.' [ayran=airan, a drink made of yogurt and water]
I wish for salvation for the traveler who takes the helmet to head,
For the one who connects his/her [value] standard to Yunus.
Each advice that is left in open, is forgotten.
Cereal seeds that do not go to the mill, do not find their place;
Yet, on return it does not stay in open [field] either
Because if it stays in open, wind takes, torrent carries [away].
Let our advice stay in open for now,
Let it then sit at its place.
In order for our tree to find straight[ness] when it stands errect
You lean stone on its root. [for your tree to be straight when it grows up, you keep it straight when it is young by leaning a stone on it]
Then you tie [it] to stick.
When it finds its order, when it gives its fruit
Neither stone nor stick is necessary.
"Let my Allah be pleased
With the ones who come to our night,
With the ones who say, ‘God-given share from our chat,’
Let your days be filled with happiness,”
He said, my Yunus gave the word.

If you mix mud in [with] clean hand,
Do you worry saying, “My hand is smeared [with mud]”?
As long as your water flows
Neither do you see the mud
Nor do you give your heart to earth. [when your spiritual water flows, you do not worry about matter, you do not fall in love with earth]

The one who knows to love the guest,
No measure is seen in his/her good deed. [it is very good deed]
The stone of the path of the one who stays away from guest
Is not cleaned.

From fire, long path [is seen]
From snow, close torrent is seen.
Fire is flame.

Even though unripe grape is not eaten, it is candidate to be your food.

The one who does not bear with coyness
Stays away from the place where there is pleading.
Toward whom does One act coyly? Of course toward the one who loves:
I love the one who loves, I know that I am loved;
For that [reason] I believe [in YOU] as much as I bear with YOUR coyness.

Green grapevine [is] on purple mountain;
Walk slowly, do not step [on] flowers.
What you take from the armful, is what you collected/collect from the grapevine.

Smoke smothers the heart
Of the one who questions, who says, "In spare."

The one who wishes for 'keramet,' the one who waits for miracle, [keramet=1. miracle worked by God through a person. 2. the God-given power of working miracles.]
Let him/her open his/her heart door:
Because if your coming, your seeing, your turning [? whirling ?]
Do not show you,
If you do not find [HIM] in yourself, if you do not see [HIM] in the universe,
Say, “My Allah,” take shelter in HIS pardon.
Because each event is miracle to [for] the one who sees.
Wish to my Allah for being able to see.
Do not give your word to human. [do not talk about this [that you do not see HIM in HIS creations] with others]

Is return ever seen in the going of the water? [does ever forward flowing water flow backward?]

Beauty is not in specialty
But [it is] because of the Loftiness of The Creator.
Specialty of the nights is because of the giving of the events.
[This verse may be better understood under the light of the following information: During sleep spirit of the human who has permission from God meets with other spirits of the same spiritual level and/or his/her saint. God grants the permission according to human's conformity to events during the day...]

If you looked around the surrounding and if you walked and went,
Your view does not take you out of the surrounding,
Yet, your surrounding gets wider together with you.

Eyvallah to our path,
Salvation to our human,
Effort, strength to our arm.

At the place where the sand takes to, what human waits for is seen.

Let us say, “Eyvallah,” let us tie [finish] our word.
What you see in the long one of the water [ocean that you will reach after a lengthy run of spiritual water] [ocean==God]
Let your heart make [it] come closer to you. [if you open your heart, you will reach [HIM] sooner]
[let your heart] Make you see in grass beyond the green. [green==LIGHT color of Prophet Mohammad]

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

1 November 1974

I am Mevlana.
The one who does not think of being eaten [i.e. for a fruit to be eaten, it needs to ripen, similarly a human needs to be spiritually mature…]
Is the one who does not know to be loved.
In the existence of the earth, each event is in two states:
To defeat, to be defeated; sour, sweet; beautiful, ugly.
If it is like that, you should love to be eaten for HIM,
[you should love] To be eaten for yourself.
When you are eaten, you should rejoice for that [reason].

It is not seen that the one that [? The One That ?] exists stops:
Neither in ocean nor on mountain nor on plain nor in vineyard.

If you think of the past, you see the one who walks.
In [spiritual] maturation, place is given to “finding,”
Creation [genesis] opens curtain by curtain.
Each one that opens is daily event.
The one that opens is easy for the one who passes.
The Reality shows not the future but your moment.

[wooden] Board without chiseling takes its place in stove only. [wooden board that is not chiseled is burned]

If I say, “Let us love the one that comes,”
"After we see," you say. [“let us first see, then we can say if we love,” you say]
When you see, you fall in detail.
If you take the mature one, if you see as he/she laughs [if you become spiritually mature like the one who is spiritually mature]
You know The Beautiful One like that.
Each human loves to take, asks [about the] path to the one who takes [the path].
[however,] If you know The One Who gives, [then] you laugh at what you hope for.

My Yunus opened the path, all humans and he embraced one another.
We greeted the one who takes,
[we greeted] The one who knows our name,
[we greeted] The one who laughs at every event and is filled with love.
I put stone upon stone [I did my work], I was full with deep love on earth.
If you say, “Is it to be full?”
Each [food] table makes [one] full
Until the next [food] table [i.e. next meal].
[at our spiritual table] The chat of the one who gets full is because of the one who makes full.
'Hikmet' of the one who makes full is because of the one who favors.
If you say, “Who is the one who favors?”
Human both separates and favors him/herself.
If you caress the back of the one who is sad,
If you give God-given share from your chat,
[then] It is not from you but from HIM.

If you wish for shadow, do not find fault in the sun. [sun==Prophet Mohammad]

The one who passed [the earth] as [spiritually] immature,
It is seen that he/she will come as [spiritually] mature [after spiritual education in after earth life].
The one who will mature [spiritually] is woven slowly and slowly.
The identity of the one who weaves is asked.
What is important is not the being of the one who weaves but The One Who makes be woven.
No event that The Being makes [it] stop, is seen.

Silk that is not mature [ready] is not woven.

My word
For the one who matures in heart,
For the one who wishes for HIS wise human in the universe
Is this:
If you can not move the earth, you can not watch HIS human.
“What does it mean?” is being said.
The one that is buried does not give place to the one who comes through heart of course.
The one who comes through heart does not love the one who looks into the [water] well, why?
Because he/she looks at the universe. [because the one who comes through heart looks at the universe]
The one who looks into the well, day comes, he/she raises his/her head,
He/she sees The One Whom he/she has not seen.
If 'to see The One Whom one does not have enough of watching'
Was God-given share of every human,
Where would he/she find HIS order [system].

If the one who loves and the one who does not love fight with one another,
The one who is loved comes into existence.
There is no mistake. Its detail is asked.
Why is war made, where does it end?
It starts with the one that can not be shared, one stones one another,
[then] The one who is defeated becomes one with the one who defeats.
The one who stays in between becomes pir.

The one whom you try to make laugh when he/she cries,
Does he/she laugh because of your effort?

The one who can not open his/her eyes, where does he/she find The Beauty? [if one is blind, can he/she not find Darling?]

If he/she does not [spiritually] mature, if he/she does not put in his/her heart,
My Yunus does [would] not come,
[even] If he comes, he does not enter [join] the chat,
Even if he enters, he does not say, “So beautiful!”

Let us take from the birth, let us give from day to day.
Is beauty
In baby him/herself, or is it in his/her coming [to earth]?
“If he/she finds his/her place,” you say.
With what do you take the measure of 'finding one’s place'? [how do you measure if someone finds his/her place?]
With manyness of the ones who love?
With fullness of his/her heart?
If you say, “Does one know the fullness of heart of the baby?”
[no, one does not know.]
If it is like that, how do you measure?

Each one who is loved is as much happy as he/she loves.
How much ever he/she is loved,
The moment in which he/she does not love, he/she should know that he/she is unhappy.
The one who loves is happy, the one who loves is blessed.
Earth’s order [system/orderliness] belongs to its Owner:
Beauty [is] for the one who sees,
Beauty [is] for the one who knows,
Happiness [is] for the one who loves.
I was loved, I did not know, I kept on searching,
The moment in which I loved, I found the happiness.
I wished to give for that [reason].
Since the day my being was known,
I worked to teach “to love.”

“Will ‘to see’ be God-given share of every human?” is said.
Our day was approved for the one who wishes to see.
Our vote was given to everyone who wished. [we voted in favor of each one who wished]
If you say, “Did we find the new one as appropriate?”
[I say,] Eyvallah.

If you do [if one does] not fall in judgment, each human finds his/her place.

The display of the one who goes [to after earth life] does not conform to [the display of] the one who comes [to earth].
The one who comes does not ask from the one who goes, about display.
Walking is forward in every moment, it does not stay behind [it is not delayed/it does not go backward].
Similar to how this day is not transformed into yesterday,
This day does not stay as tomorrow.
Each event does never race with one another.

Let us thank my Allah for each one who/that exists.
We are here because my Allah made exist.
“Where is our place?” is said, one asked from us.
The one who comes is not us but you.
Foot carries, mind makes find.
We gave before:
Like in the example of the moon, our being is seen by each one who looks. [similar to how moon reflects the light of the sun] [sun==Prophet Mohammad]
Each one who thinks, does he/she not come to us?
Be entrusted to my Allah,
Consider 'to love' as happiness.

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

10 November 1974

I am Mevlana.
Our place is in hearts, our path is always in you.
We came to the ones who come, we gave to the ones who ask.
In the word of the one who is remembered, who did sit on his lap?
How did he go on his footprints, what was seen in his essence?
He became essence, he gave, he became brave for HIS earth.
On his day [on earth], he saw mirage.
There is no mistake: his wish became mirage.
He knew to be eaten, he loved the one that[/who] was eaten. [to be eaten==similar to how ripe fruit is eaten with delight, he became spiritually mature and …]
He held hand in hand, hearts were filled with him
However, the one whose heart was one. [i.e. only humans whose hearts were one were filled with him]

The day’s events give light to tomorrow.
Let it not be forgotten:
Each event that is seen as unlikable is door to the one that is loved.

The level at which one is pleased, walking stops;
To stay at his/her place, paves the way to independence.
If you say, “Why?”
Do you say that each way that is paved is to liberation?
How do you see the one who goes to [water] well?
[spiritual] Immaturity is in stopping, yield [is] in walking.

“Balance is lost,” is said, the one who will set up the order is searched.
The one who disrupts the order, finds the degenerate one,
Both of them sit on the scale. [they sit on opposite plates of the pair of the scales==they compare themselves with each other [i.e. the wrong one compares him/herself to another wrong one, and thinks that he/she is right...]]
The one who weighs is the one who finds the order [orderliness].
Let no place be given to worry.
The one that is seen on the surface of the water, on the level of the path
Is not the one who tries to set up [the order].
Only the disruptor of the order is said about.
However, even when it is like that,
Judgment is in the one who falls in interrogation.

If [one does] not [find] on HIS earth, let him/her find at HIS summit.
Let HIS human who is wished for, come to chat,
He said, Mustafa took the word.
I descended straight from mountain to path,
I took word from generation to generation. [I was remembered from generation to generation]
I became trump in human’s tongue:
Some [of them] made [me] sword, took aim at the target,
Some [of them] said, "Dagger," threw to two, [threw the dagger at the second circle on the bull's eye target...]
Some [of them] devoted sacrifice in my name.
Each one who remembered my name, used that as a touchstone for the chat.
Neither was the one who [? The One Who ?] existed, known
Nor did one walk when it was said, “Let him/her [spiritually] mature.”
“Let him/her take his place,” was said, [let him/her replace him]
[an] Equivalent of my name was searched. [someone to take my place was searched]
Event happened not because of my name but because of my remembrance [of Allah],
My back leaned on Allah.
Let hearts remember like that.
Let the traveler of HAK’s path be waited for.
The one who does not lean his/her back on Allah
Can not build his/her wall strongly.
Even if he/she builds, he/she can not see.
Even if he/she sees, he/she can not give.
My word is for the ones who say, “We wait for the bright day.”
Let us not watch but give direction to its[/his/her] progress.
With love, let us also embrace the one who is rebellious, let us know that he/she seeks [too].
Let us give the respect in each breath,
Let us divide [it] to each one who breaths.
What is meant by “each one who breaths" [is]:
Rich, poor, young, old, well, sick, on earth, on path,
Whatever exists below, above, in hand, in foot;
Each one who is created deserves love, respect.
If you say,
“The one who does not give foot to uphill, [the one who does not go/walk uphill]
The one who does not conform to judgment when interpreting,
Is he/she loved, is he/she respected?”
You, try to love, [try] to respect.
You will see, when you [spiritually] mature you will find.
If you say, “[to find] In him/her?” [no] In yourself.
Let greeting be, let my place be filled according to your intention.
Let my remembrance stay for your vision,
Let one conform to The Reality That is called mirage.
Let hearts come together from day to day.
Let the one who sits come to the place of the one who hits, [let the one who sits take the place of the one who hits]
When he/she [spiritually] matures, let all of you stay as pleased,
He said, Mustafa walked.
Caravan is set up, order [orderliness] is seen.
The one who seeks in wind, is reunited on the path,
Mustafa said, left greeting for the one who says, “Remedy.”

Let it be known that sand is sifted, baby is swaddled.
Birth is salvation, the one who is born [is] 'keramet,' [keramet=1. miracle worked by God through a person. 2. the God-given power of working miracles.]
The one who gives birth [is] in peace, the one who makes birth take place [is] flawless.
Let one not say, “What becomes my situation?”
The reality is born.
Does the sun take from the earth or does it give to the earth? [sun==Prophet Mohammad]
You are from the ones who take, know the new one,
You are from the ones who see, conform to the old one.
Say to the one who says, “It does not happen:”
Turn to history, history gives direction to people.

Be entrusted to my Allah.
Let you see quickly the one that is said.
There is of course no need to say to my Allah [about] the beauty of the place where HE is remembered;
You know [about it], that is enough.
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