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ONEness of HEARTs
VOLUME 2
Part 25

1 December 1973

I am Mevlana.
If you look for footprint on the sand, pass during the day.
If you look for footprint on the path, pass while respecting. [if you wish to leave your footprint on the path, start by respecting HIS creations]
If you say, “Let the guest be pleased,” pass while loving.
Let my Allah be pleased with all of you.
I did not say, “Let the one who says, 'My Allah,' know the peace and find [it],”
Because peace is known not by searching, but by [HIM] being known.

Entry to the fort that has four gates
Is not in accordance with requirement, but with direction.
If there is one single gate, then one thinks about requirement:
You say, “Let me make the path longer.” [if there is only one gate, you have no other choice, but to enter through that gate...] 

Hope is in whom? [who is hopeful?]
In the one who knows HAK,
In the one who says, “HE gives.”
If you say, “What happened? What will happen?”
If you close the door of hope,
Then you move away from HAK.
[however,] HAK is never away from HIS human.

If you say, “What do I wait from the bridge that I do not cross?”
Then keep in step with the water that flows.

In the procedure that you consult about, door of patience opens,
Yes, it does not get closed.
[however,] Door of hope is in your hand.

[when] Chat [is] in your intention,
[when] Generosity [is] in your God-given share,
Do not make turn to worry. [do not turn toward worry / do not worry]
Do not find the path in turning.
Say, “I took step, I saw my door, my going is in that direction,”
Do not make mistake.

Crisis is not in quilt, in rope, but on the surface.
The one that is on surface goes with wind, with torrent.
When it is like that, why does human occupy him/herself with worry?

The interrogation of what I do is from HAK.
When one falls in fault, his/her pardon is from HIM too.
If you say:
“When shelter is taken in HIM, the one that came is gone, HIS chat stayed in heart,”
Then you see your door of hope,
Then you walk towards its light.

In the custom that does not change, what happens to the one who leaves?
Of course one asks about his/her homeland.
If you change his/her place, the place of the one who returns stays as empty.
“Let me neither leave [it] as empty, nor stay at the place where I am,” he/she says.
When it is like that, it is irrelevant to think about decision.
If it is referred to my Allah, it is seen
That event finds order [orderliness],
That human’s effort stays in vain.

To the one who fights in battlefield, one does not go without shield.
At the one who quitted the war, one does not point gun.

Flower does not grow on head course.
You spread the flower to heart.
When it blossoms, you pick saying, “Beautiful.”

It does not matter if he/she adds word to your word; [to add word to someone's word==to gossip about someone]
Let his/her pardon in the name of HAK come from you.

Talent is neither from him/her,
Nor from the one who comes from him/her,
Nor from the one who divides [erases] the [blood] tie.
Talent is in the one who says, “My Allah, it came from YOU.”

If you say, “Until where is the place of the patience?”
[it is] Until doomsday.
Patience is door to salvation.

If you say, “My load is heavy,” do not be mistaken:
The moment in which you say, “My helper,” they share your load.

Do not say, "How about if he/she criticizes,"
No one criticizes the one that is made in the name of my Allah.
Even if one does, he/she can not hold on.

Let heart have no worry about the number of the one that comes, that goes.
Let your heart not stay at the place where there is smoke.
The smoke:
Neither do you give [it], nor do you create [it].
Your heart structure does not give smoke,
Nor does it see the one who gives [smoke] as pleasant.
However, word is not enough for HIS human.
At the place where you consult, no smoke stays.

My Yunus says:
Where am I?
Where did I stay?
Where did I search?
Where did I find?
I entered every heart that loved.
I stood on the path of the one who asked,
I became one with the one who wrapped [hugged].
I saw hal and event in soft hearts.
If you seek close friend, know Yourself,
Make yourself close friend with HIS each human.
Each one who gives [love] is the one who takes [love] from you.
Each one who loves is the one who finds from you.
You take as much as you present,
You find as much as you love.
The moment in which you say, “I found,”
You return to yourself.

If you say, “Let the one whom I love, love me,”
Then you are mistaken.
You, love even if he/she does not love,
You, love even if he/she does not see.
Let The One Who loves be my Allah.
Let The One Who knows, The One Who sees be my Allah.
It does not matter if HIS human drives me away with stone;
There is 'keramet' in expulsion. [keramet=1. miracle worked by God through a person. 2. the God-given power of working miracles.]

I am Mevlana.
Epoch is this epoch, not [the epoch] of the one who passed. [today is today, not the time of the one who passed away in the past]
If you turned your direction to HAK,
Your each moment is your birth.
If you knew your day, if you conformed to the going, [if you conformed to events]
“Ya Allah,” you say, you become one with the one who comes.
Hand that is given is from HIM,
Word that is said is from HIM.
Let 'to think differently' not come from you.
What happens will happen, what is written will be seen.
The one who is mistaken, will be erased.
Because HE is not incapable of erasing.
If you say, “How is he/she erased?”
To stand in front of the one that will happen [to try to change what will happen, i.e. the future events]
Resembles taking step into [a] water dam.
Destiny’s writing is in HIM, [HE is The One Who writes the destiny]
Conformity [to HIS writing] is in human.
My Allah makes HIS human conform;
However, the one who says, “Let me not conform,”
HE makes him/her find HIS path.
If you say, “How does HE make him/her find [HIS path]?”
HE makes him/her be given various lessons. [HE makes him/her be put in his/her place in various ways]
Let us be among the ones who conform,
Let us find the easy one of the lesson.

Numan says:
The one that is sought in religion, is the one that is put in heart.
One should of course know to conform to the surrounding.
The one that is sought in word, he/she should say from heart.
When he/she says, “My life,” he/she should conform to Darling.
One should erase the body, one should divide [erase] the earth.

Niyazi says:
In the fish of the ocean
One’s rightful due is in the form of HIS human:
Blessing is because of the measure of the God-given share,
God-given share is in the additive of each day. [it is thought that this verse has two meanings, and that both of them are valid: 1) God-given share of each human depends on what he/she adds/does during the day; 2) God-given share is determined during the night [additive [of the day]==night]]
If it happens as consulted, morning would not be seen on the day. [if human was consulted and if it were according to human's wish, there would be no night, and therefore, no morning...]
The one who finds beauty even at night, has such [a] big peace.
Is there any one who does not reach his/her destination during the night?
Would one see [during the night/during sleep] any one who loses his/her direction?
Your path opens like in the example of moon,
Your direction is chosen like in the example of star. [sun==Prophet Mohammad; moon==Hazrat Ali; star==saint]
[The above and below verses may be better understood under the light of the following information: During sleep, soul of human who has permission from Allah, meets with other spirits of the same spiritual level and/or his/her saint. During these meetings previous day's events are evaluated. God, WHO owns all particles, WHO shows them to us as matter, decides about next events as well as each human's God-given share...]

Say, “I respected the stars during the night,
On day I conformed to the sun.
My Allah, I found The Beautiful One at each return.”
At that time, peace is in you.

Do not seek [HIM] on the display, do not ask [someone at] the market [about HIM].

Neither are you The One Who writes nor are you The One Who erases.

Let it not be said, “How does he/she mature [spiritually], where does he/she find?”
The one that happens is written as well as the one who finds. [? The one who matures [spiritually] is written as well as the one who finds. ?]

At the place where there is effort, one does not fall in amazement
Because you think that the one that happens is from you. [you think that you made it happen...]
[on the other hand,] When happening is seen at the place where there isn't even any effort,
Then amazement is in you. [then you are amazed / surprised / confused]
The One Who gives you to effort is HIM too. [when you spend effort, HE is The One Who makes you spend the effort...]

Ladder is for descent, for ascent.
Where is the place of the effort?
When it is necessary: descent.
When it is necessary: ascent.
The one who does not know his/her place,
Is he/she the one who does not get God-given share from ascent? [the one who does not know The Meaning, does he/she not climb the spiritual ladder at all?]
No. [he/she does]

My Yunus says:
The pillow that is next to him/her
Is to lean on,
Is to rest at night.
It is not necessary for you to use [it] on your day.
My word is open: The one who wishes for soft path.

"The one who sharpens his/her word on the path:
Let it be sharp;
Let you cut unripe word,”
Sari Saltuk said.
Commander Sari Saltuk says:
Let your word be definite, let it come from HAK’s tongue.
To the one who says, "It is not said, [one's] word is not gone back,"
Let it be said, “The one that comes from HAK’s tongue is not gone back,” [when it is said in name of God, one does not go back on his/her word...]
He said, he greeted.

It is known by you that
Garib takes from Yunus, consults with Mevlana, comes together with all [humans].
There is never mistake in the record.

There are many instances when human conforms to human.
However, the ones who are nearby HAK,
The ones who say “In the name of HAK,”
Call human to the path of HAK.
He/she shouts saying, “Come all of you,”
He/she gives his/her hand to HIS human, yet, he/she never conforms to his/her temperament.
Because he/she passed from being mortal to being forever.
Let all of you conform to the passage.

We brought armful of God-given share.
We became one with all of you
In hal, not in event.
Let us say, “Eyvallah,” to all of you.
Let us know [that] the salvation [is] thanks to the chat.

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

7 December 1973

I am Mevlana.
We walked on sand, we searched footprint, we found on the flatness.
We saw the one who was going on the path,
We became one with the one who said, “Come.”
We became pir on the path of deep love,
We found HIM in each breathe.
We said, “Erase,” to the one who was saying, “Trouble,”
Erase so that you know your coming,
So that you leave the matter, you enter The Meaning.
Let greeting be to all of you,
Let The One Whom you remember fill your heart.

Is there any one who does not search when coming [to earth], who does not conform to the return [to after earth life]?
Is the one who can not say,
“I came, I will stay, I will own the universe,”
Not the human him/herself?
If it is like that, then there is no one who says, “I am completely matter.”
When “matter” is said, think of The Owner of the giving:
The One Who gives the matter is HIM, The One Who makes [it/him/her] be loved is HIM too.
When it is like that, no fault is sought [in any matter].
Coming to earth is to find, finding is to love.
If every human says, “The Meaning,”
Then it is necessary to erase the record from the coming [to earth]. [then there would be no need to keep good deed/sin records]

Let it not be thought that
Humans who say, “Matter, matter, again matter,”
Stay away from The Meaning.
He/she escapes in moment from the place where he/she hides him/herself in the mirror,
The moment in which he/she finds The Meaning, he/she transfers the matter to the one who wishes [for it].
For that [reason],
What starts where,
What ends where
Can not be known with human’s eye.
For that [reason],
Measure can not be given with human’s word.
The One Who gives the measure in love is HIM.
The One Who makes the one who burns, drink from HIS water, is HIM.
Have you [ever] seen any one who burned when he/she said, “I am burning”?
Have you [ever] seen any one who stopped when HIS path opened?

If you ask the one who goes on flat plain,
He/she describes the ground and the sky only.
After climbing the lofty mountain,
He/she glances at large surroundings.

There are values of temperament that you do not expect.
“Let it not be hidden,” you say;
Even yourself you do not know the one that is in yourself. [? Even yourself you do not know the one what happens in yourself. ?]
Only when you get free of yourself, you see what is in temperament,
“My Allah, I take shelter in YOU,” you say.
Voila, when you say, “[I am] from YOU, I took shelter in YOU,”
Then you conform to The One That is in Yourself.

There is none that you will take from the food that is not eaten.
There is none that you will find from the word that is not said.
However, whether it is eaten or it is said, the only thing that you should know:
HE creates, HE looks after, HE makes HIS creation long for [HIM]. [? HE creates, HE looks after, HE makes long for HIS creation. ?]
Day comes, HE even makes the one who does not love, love,
HE makes him/her find HIMSELF. [? Makes him/her find Him/Herself. ?]
Let you have no doubt, let worry not fill hearts
Because universe is from HIM, human is HIS;
Finding is to HIM, return is to HIM
Whether he/she knows or not,
Whether he/she sees or not.
WHO is The One Who gives the vision?
WHO is The One Who sets up the display?
WHO is The One Who makes conform to the fall, even in leaf,
[WHO is The One Who] Makes find when fallen?
The one who wishes to eat is seen that he/she conforms since birth;
WHO gives the voice of the baby whose stomach is not full?
Let us say, “Eyvallah,” for The Giving.
Let us thank HIM for whatever we find on The Display.

Yahya Efendi says:
Once they go to stomach,
Is what you take from quarter of [a] loaf of bread different
Than the honey and borek that you eat? [borek=flaky pastry filled with thin layers of a food]
Walk
As much as you know to love,
As long as you take HIS path.

My Yunus wishes for word, he enters the word without addition. [to add word to someone's word==to talk badly about someone, to gossip about someone...]
Let us go bare foot, let us find the heart in liberty.
Let us put the knee on the ground, let us bend the head forward,
Let us say, “What YOU write is correct," let us join hand[s] on our chest. [? Let us say, "What YOU write is the rightful due," let us join hand[s] on our chest. ?] [? Let us say, "What YOU write is HAK," let us join hand[s] on our chest. ?]
What you erase from head, what you put on display, is it from you?
Neither can you erase nor can you fill the display.
Let one not complain about the guest who does not leave,
Let one not say, "I sent him/her on the path, there is his/her greeting."
God-given share for water is of course not decreased
At the place where there is well,
On the path where water flows.
Nevertheless, child horse is not let to pull the chariot.
Let us erase the worry of the one who sees, from the respect of the one who comes.
Let us say, “Eyvallah,” to the one who looks for path in his/her heart.
Let us say, “If each human can distribute the love that he/she has in heart,
Then paths open.”

On the long one of the path, heart does never become narrow.

I am Mevlana.
The worry of the earth is that one erases the love and he/she can not find [HIM].
However, every thing that is known is inclined to be found.

Flower of deep love is present in the hearth of each human.
However, water [is] necessary, the one who will give the water [is] necessary.
In reality, the whole of the universe is water.
If it is water, why does one doubt about the return?
The one that you see as stone is water too,
The one that you call as fire, is water too.
If you nourish the water with water, the going is to where?

Is the one who goes on foot and the one who goes by car the same?
Even if,
“The one who goes on foot does not get tired,
The one who takes the car is not broken,” is said, ["The one who goes on foot is not broken [is not hurt because he/she would not be involved in a car accident]; The one who goes by car does not get tired," is said.]
[in any case,] One finds what he/she seeks at the place where he/she goes to,
Becomes one with the one that he/she seeks.

Is getting out of the rule
In human’s hand, or
In his/her tongue?
[it is] Neither in his/her hand nor in his/her tongue.

At the place where rose blossoms,
At the place that the heart chooses,
There is HIM.
At the place where human runs away,
At the place where the night collapses,
There is HIM.
The place where HE is, is your heart.

Earth is not erased, sky is not pierced,
One does never stay without water.
If you can not find on earth, wish to sky,
HE does never withhold HIS rain.
Even if it is said, “HE gives to the one who wishes,”
It is wrong.
Because HE gives to the one who does not wish too.
However, the one who wishes, sees,
Because he/she sees, he/she says, “I took.”
The one who wishes is HIS human;
Is the one who does not wish, not HIS human?
HE is in you, however, be in HIM you too!

My Yunus says:
“Let me be from HIM,” I said, I walked all lifetime long.
On return, I saw that I was mistaken.
Is there any moment in which we are not from HIM
So that there is need that I walk and take?

Let our wish be “to see HIS giving,” not to take.
It is easy to take HIS giving, [it is] difficult to see [HIM].

“To love” is beautiful, “to display” is to ask from the record.
If you say, “I gave my love, I looked for its reciprocal,”
Then you find HIS giving as insufficient.

If day’s interpretation is made,
If the doors that close are forgotten,
If the doors that open are looked at,
[then] Worries are erased, hearts are washed.
“HAK’s Hand opened each door,” is being said.
The One Who opens is of course HIM.
The One That is conformed to is HIM,
The one that is erased is from HIM.
The one who goes [to after earth life] is glad, the one who comes [to earth] is sad.
Let us say, “We searched,” let us believe in coming to the universe.
Let the return be to HIM together with HIM.

“Our pleading,” is said, pleading is wished for in chat.
If prayer beads are in tongue, if one conforms with every hal,
Pleading comes into being with three words:
If,
“I came from YOU,
I have been with YOU,
Let me return to YOU together with YOU, my Allah,” is said,
It would be the summary of the lifetime.

Whether you beg or not, you see whatever HE wrote.
Nevertheless, you turn one page every day.
However,
You know the day that passes,
You wait for the day that comes, with hope.
The end of any book is not known unless it is read.
Yet, its each phase is written.

The end of the chat does not come.
Let us give your pleading, let us close as such.
We opened the hearts, we became one, we hugged one another.
'ONLY ONE,' we said, we had [a] heart-to-heart talk,
In chat, we shared the chat.
Let us say, “Eyvallah.”
Let us wish for happy day.
From us who give path to you,
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