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ONEness of HEARTs
VOLUME 2
Part 4

31 January 1973

I am Mevlana.
The one who can not burn the dry one, can not give up [a] live tree.

My Yunus came to the nest, saw the path in chat. [nest=Mevlana’s/Garib’s congregation]
“Tell your vision,” I said,
He said, “Eyvallah,” he took the word.

Neither the degenerate one of path, nor the word of human:
[our] Path is open to each one who goes.
You just wish to go. [our path is open to anyone as long as he/she wishes for HIS path]

The wise one is the one who takes the word into the strainer,
Savant is the one who gives what passes through the strainer.
The difference, you find [it].
What is meant by 'the wise one':
"The one who takes [the word] into the strainer," we said.
What the wise one gives, only the wise one takes.
If the wise one does not give, savant can not move forward.
If you say, “Why?”
Even in [electric] current, there are two forces:
One takes, [the other] one gives.
What the wise one sieves, savant puts [it] on display.
It should not be forgotten that
It happens even if the savant is not there.
However,
If the wise one is not there, dust of the path harms human.

We gave the word, we took the saz. [saz= a stringed instrument (which somewhat resembles a lute)]
“What do we say,” we said, we conformed to assembly.

Do not give your heart to sleep,
Do not put mistakes on display.

Do not put events in bundles, and [do not] roll them up.
Leave each event at the place where it is;
Do not turn and see [it] behind yourself. [do not look behind to see it]
The one that you will see, let it always be the one that comes.

“My Allah’s days:
Let them come to HIS soft humans as bright,
Let them find all humans like that,” is said, one has been prayerful.

I am Mevlana.
Do you not say, “Let it snow, let all [humans] wear white cloth,
Let one take sip by sip from the snow”?
Do you not wish to see purity in the universe?
If you miss the purity greatly,
If you say, “Let my eye see, let my heart take,”
“Path is convenient,” I say.

When 'order of the universe gets worse' is said,
[then] One loads corruption on travelers.
However, fault is neither in traveler nor in caravansary boniface:
It is in the one who does not conform to the order, who does not know The Giver.
What is the order set up with?
Only by knowing the one that comes from HAK.
When “let me set up the order” is said,
One becomes means to worsening the order.
Did you look at the herd?
Is there any fault in its going?
The moment in which the one that does not conform to the herd joins the herd,
Herd disperses.
However, the place where it will go, is again the sheepfold.

Let my Allah not leave [us] away from the spring [source]
That we take from its water,
That we stay nearby.

Do not seek the one that happened.

Omar says:
If you seek fault in the wall that is laid,
It is necessary that you take the wall down.
If you can not take [it] down, then forget the fault.

Do not keep your eye as one with the one that does not see. [do not assume that your eye is similar to the eye that does not see]

Each event that you avoid, know [it] as close to you.
My Allah trains HIS human with the event that he/she avoids.
My Allah’s favor is of course his/her training.
Similar to how,
For the training of their child, mother, [or] father
Punishes [the child] for his/her fault.
In reality, that is not [a] punishment,
However, child understands that only
When his/her fault is corrected.

Let your work be for the goodness of human so that
It opens the door of divine merit to you.
When you think of eating, think of the one who is on the road too.
When you think of putting on [your cloth], think of the one who goes on the road too.
When it is like that,
Do not forget that there is One Who thinks about you too.
In each morsel that you eat, know HIM,
Know the ones who/that come from HIM.
In each cardigan that you put on, find HIM,
Find the ones who/that come from HIM.
Then you get free of selfishness.
“In each morsel that you eat, think of the one who comes from the road,” we said.
Think about sharing the morsel so that
You find the endowment of my Allah.
The moment in which you say,
“If there is, I eat, if there is not, I do not eat,”
Then you doubt The Giver.
Isn’t there anyone who is hungry?
Of course there is.
What happens if you look after [him/her],
How many humans’ stomachs are filled up?
If human who is hungry did not previously fall in selfishness,
He/she would not be hungry.
HE makes him/her find him/herself, then HE allays his/her hunger again.
The reason: because of the the love that HE has for HIS human.
For that [reason], let us not fall in doubt about HIS love.
To his humans who say,
“Am I not worthy of the love of my Allah?"
HE loves HIS each human, HE pulls his/her ear,
Then HE embraces with HIS love.

Our deep love [is] without measure.

“The day on which you laugh, know HIM,
The day on which you cry, find HIM,”
Said my Yunus, he came.
The moment in which you say,
“My Allah, where are YOU, do YOU not see my trouble?”
HE embraces you,
“I am here, you, find yourself,” HE says.
For that [reason] I say, each event [is] from HIM.
Do not be mistaken, not evil:
Can the one that makes you find yourself be evil?

(Good deed and evil is asked about)
Open [clear] meaning of the one that is asked, is this:
Each event is from YOU, even if I am mistaken by saying, “Evil [bad event],”
Since its end is “to find YOU,”
Is "to be reunited with YOU after death."
It is interpreted wrongly:
“Good deed as well as evil is from my Allah,” is said.
Of course, each event is from my Allah.
However,
The one that you call as “evil,” is favor.
My essence passed my test,
Made my body get free of what?
Of the one that does not conform to my logic.
When,
"I made my essence faithful,
I peeled off my cage,” is said:
I gave my spirit to the [HIS] path freely,
The moment in which I gave, I arrived,
I saw The Tree That I leaned on, when I arrived.

Osman says,
The one who plants the tree on the path
Is the one who gives shade to the human whom the sun burns.
Tabduk conformed to dervish lodge,
Yunus [conformed] to Osman.
The one who plants the grapevine, the one who takes care of the trunk [are] different.
The one who extracts its juice, the one who puts in the sun [are] different.
The one who sells [it] in the “meyhane” [is] different. [meyhane=bar/restaurant like public place in 14th century where wine was served]
The one who drinks [it] and becomes drunk [is] again different.
What is essential, is to stay together by giving hand in hand,
Is to know what comes from the grapevine.
Whomever you vote for, he/she becomes the winner,
[however,] If you do not make any separation, you become the winner.  
If you say, “Power is in the one who plants the grapevine,”
[then] You forget the one who squeezes the grape [to extract its juice].
If you say, “Power is in the one who squeezes,”
[then] You forget the one who presents [serves] at meyhane.
If you find oneness, you enter peaceful coexistence,
You conform to the order of the universe.
If you conform to oneness, you stay away from being scattered.
My Allah is not incapable of gathering,
However,
Let human know to come together in his/her bodily constitution.
Let it not be forgotten:
The Reality is the ensemble,
The Reality is the unity.
The one who says, “My stomach is full, thank YOU,”
Should thank HIM for all humans.
Do not say, “I am full, how about the one who stays as hungry?”
Matter does not allay one’s hunger.
You eat as long as you live, you are still not satiated:
In the morning of the night at which you went to bed as full, you wake up as hungry.
However, The [spiritual] Meaning is not like that.
You can not be satiated with The Meaning, you are hungry in each moment.
As long as you know about your hunger, you try to be satiated;
One moment comes, you forget about your hunger too.

In deep love, there is no addiction
Because there is end of the addiction;
Whereas deep love is endless.

If you say, "I was human, I did not know,
I did not see what HE gave,
I did not untie HIS Knot,"
Then you become as separated from “ihlas.” [ihlas=1. to spiritually purify oneself, 2. to worship Allah with pure heart]
Because we are HIS human, we know,
We say, “My Allah,” when we fall in trouble,
We expect HIM to untie the knot.
We know that there is no one who unties, except HIM.

What I eat [is] earth’s,
What I wear [is] earth’s,
What I take [is] mine.
What I take:
If I obeyed my Allah’s order, my gain is big.

I walked with dress,
I folded the dress, I put [it] in the chest [trunk].
I saw [it] at the place where the body stayed:
“Hence, the body is earth merchandize too,” I said.
Let it be said,
“Even though body is earth merchandize,
Since it is HIS giving, it is entrusted to my essence;
I should know its right, I should run away from questioning.”
Let the right of HIS entrusted one be recognized, let it [body] be kept away from cruelty.
Let one take enough care of its food, let one take enough care of it so that it stands on its own feet;
If the giving of its food is harmful to the body, let it not take [that food]. [do not give the body unhealthy/excessive amount of food]
[respect your body, treat it nicely because it belongs to God, it is just entrusted to you while you are on earth…]


Be entrusted to my Allah.
Let all of you find salvation.
From my word, take your intentions.
I said before,
The one who is wise, takes my word, passes [it] through the sieve. [reads and thinks about it over and over again...]

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

1 February 1973

I am Mevlana.
We wished from Your power,
We waited from Your endowment,
We walked on Your path,
The one that happened, we knew [it] as good deed,
We wrapped ourself up in Your patience,
We wrapped the one that is right [correct] around ourself,
We said, "Universe," we were sent,
Neither did we take offense, nor did we feel sad.

Each event waits for its time [to come],
Each time adds the one that comes.
Do not say, “Its difficulty,” do not be scared of what will happen.
The One Who prepares what will happen as well as the future, is HIM. [? The One Who prepares the one who will mature [spiritually] and the one who will come [to after earth life] is HIM. ?]
Even though, you [may] say, “We know,”
Goal is reached not by knowing, but by conforming.

The dust that is not necessary, does not take place on earth. [even each dust is created for a purpose]
None of the creations stays as empty. [no creation is created for nothing]

One does not occupy oneself with the worry of the future,
I said to the one who knows the carved design, the one who rolls the surroundings up. [I say to the one who tries to straighten the things up…]

If I say, “Rotten,” about the fruit that I can not take,
[then] I say [bad] word about the one who takes.
The subject that I am talking about
Is for the one who says, “I can not hit the road [I can not set off on a journey], I can not roll the bundle up.”
If you do not breach your contract, you do not stay in intention [of worship] [you do not perform the worship]. [if you say, “I have business to do according to my contract, I have no time to worship, then you would not worship; in order to worship you may need to breach your contract…]
It is neither with intention nor with difficulty, but only with blessing.

The one who says, “I could not cross the bridge,”
Is the one who stays away from the bridge.
If you could not cross, it is neither your fault nor the bridge’s,
It is only the line of the destiny.
Do you have doubt?
Are you the one who wrote your destiny?
Are you the one who lined up the future?
Even the step that you take is on HIS line [on the destiny line that HE draws in each moment].
You can not even set up intention to get out of the line.
The moment in which you set up intention, you find HIM opposite to you.
My word is not understood.
The one that you find opposite to you, is the mirror of your intention.
“Are there not humans with bad intentions?” you say.
Does bad event come opposite to the human who is with good intention?
What is meant by bad event:
Taming of human’s bad intention.
I said before: the one that human avoids, is opposite to him/her.

My Yunus says:
Let me open the word [let me clarify], let me give example.
If human is not satisfied with his/her God-given share,
If he/she sets his/her heart on his/her neighbor’s God-given share,
My Allah opens door to his/her intention.
The door that HE opens is like in the example of mirror.
He/she sees the badness of his/her intention there.
Because no badness stays without punishment.

We gave since the beginning:
“Events are nice like in the example of the tune coming from ney," we said. [ney=musical instrument resembling reed flute and used in Mevlevi ceremonies]
Even if it does not come to you as nice, check your intention:
Is it separate from the correctness?
If so,
Refer the one that will happen to HIM so that you know what will come.

Example is given, the punishment that is given for bad intention, is said.
However,
The punishment given by my Allah
Is to make HIS human find him/herself.
For that [reason],
Cursing of human is irrelevant, is corrupt.

“Heaven, hell,” is said,
It is asked from the one who saw, from the one who did not see.
Are both heaven and hell not created by HIM?
Of course they are [they exist].
However,
It does not burn with wood, it is not extinguished with water.
Heaven, hell are in the heart of human.
The one whom you call as “zebani,” is my Allah’s angel. [zebani=fearsome being charged with taking condemned sinners to hell]
If you say, “How [are they] in heart?”
When earth is rolled up, when one comes to HIS presence,
The one that you find is heaven, the one that you do not find is hell.
The one that you say about, “What is it that is not found?”
If you do not conform to oneness,
If you do not say, “My Allah,”
If you do not love HIS creation,
What do you wish to find, [and] from where?
The one who stays away from love
Is the one who does not respect the attribute of the universe.
The one who does not know HIS Attribute is the one who does not wish for HIS Persona.
Do you find the one that you do not wish for?
Whatever you remembered the most on earth,
You take that in after earth life.
HIS giving to HIS human.
If you say [on earth], “Let me take HIS giving, let me be faraway from HIS love,”
What do you wish to find?
No mistake occurs in image.
Human who wishes, takes the one that he/she is worthy of.
Each human who says, “My Allah,” finds HIM.

There is no language of deep love
For the human who is in deep love.
For that [reason],
Let my Allah be remembered as it comes from heart.
If you say,
“If there is mistake in pleading,
It is not accepted by my Allah,”
Then you are mistaken.
Does mute human not remember his/her Allah?
Can someone who has fault in his/her tongue not plead?
Pleading is as it comes from heart.
When you say,
“My Allah,
I believed in YOU,
I took shelter in YOU,
I trusted YOU,”
Is it not accepted by my Allah?
I said before, there is no language of deep love.
Human does not give measure to human.
Happening of the mistake, does not erase the measure.
Are you responsible for the mistake that you do not know?

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

3 February 1973

I am Mevlana.
“Our path is one,” we said, we entered the word. [we started the chat]
Let greeting be to all of you
Who join the chat, who jump onto the path.

The one who finds the interrogation because of the rotation of the earth: [human who is interrogated when migrating to after earth life because of his/her behavior during his/her earth life]
If there is one whom he/she consults, then would there be any need for the line [of destiny]?
The one that is written is not changed, human is not let to join the order. [human is not allowed to set up the order / human is not allowed to interfere with the order]
If he/she says, “Let me set up the order,” [then] his/her day does not conform to his/her other day [then he/she encounters disorder].

Event’s path is like that:
The event that you condemn, finds you.
Because the one that happens, is not in the hand of human.

Are the 'namaz' performed in [a] small mosque [namaz=praying while prostrating]
And the one performed in Kaaba, different?

You eat the fruit, if you keep its seed,
[then] You are deprived of its sapling.

Is music not the endowment of my Allah?
Do you lose consciousness
When reading or listening to Koran?
Koran that is read without the right tune
Reminds human of duty. [human does it as if it is his/her duty, i.e. he/she does not get any benefit from it...]

It is the order of my Allah:
HE says, “Give what you take.”
Each giving that you claim the ownership
Is in your responsibility.
Of course human has nothing to take from, nor to give to human.
What is 'the giving'?
To HIS each human, my Allah gives from HIS treasures as HE wishes:
Knowledge to some,
Vision to some,
Love to some…
Share the one that my Allah endows
So that it gives you peace.
If you say, “Is knowledge shared?”
Of course it is.
The one who knows the right [correct], gives the most beautiful one.

The one who takes the mirror in his/her hand, if he/she sees the universe,
Let him/her consider him/herself as [being one of] HIS human[s].

The One Who makes you find yourself,
Makes you get free of yourself, [during the test on earth, one is expected to erase his/her ego]
Then HE separates, [HE grants spiritual degrees of humans]
HE makes [you] return [to after earth life] again.
Return is “finding.” [finding/learning his/her spiritual level at the time of migration; one finds Allah according to his/her spiritual level…]

Beauty is in entering the chat
Either with writing, or with word, or even with eye.
When hearts are pleased,
Earth is filled with peace.
Why?
Because human sees like that.
Earth is as human sees [it].
If you say, “How?”
Whatever human’s heart structure seeks,
Earth’s door is seen by him/her like that.

If there is no inequality of earth, [if there were equality on earth]
You would complain about the lack of variety;
You would abstain from the one that was not [equal].

Let you know that the delight on earth is
Neither in eating
Nor in wearing, [nor in putting on beautiful clothes]
But only in loving.

Scarcity of God-given share is in apparition;
Aren’t both what you give and what you take, HIS?
What you were when coming [to earth],
Can you take it when returning so that it is yours?
[The above verses may be better understood under the light of the following information: when coming to earth, each human has HIS Light. During his/her lifetime on earth, human wastes HIS Light in accordance with his/her bad intentions. At migration time he/she is granted his/her spiritual level according to how much of HIS Light he/she could save…]

Hazrat Yusuf says,
If you decided to go [on HIS path], do not turn,
Do not say, “Is there good deed in turning?”
Good deed is the one that is written.

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 Akţiray (Garib)
Translated by Tamer Özel