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Yunus Emre Quotes

b. 1240 Turkey

Yunus Emre (1238–1328) was a Turkish folk poet and Islamic Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Turkish culture. His name, Yunus, is the Muslim equivalent to the English name Jonah.

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Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved.
Let me render my heart a slave, it may happen that I join the beloved.

I came to this world (as a ) stranger, I am tried of this land.
The time has come that I break this trap of enslavement.

My name is Yunus,
Each passing day fans and rouses my flame,
What I desire in both worlds is the same:
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave

Two Persons talk, saying "Would that I see Yunus
One [of them] says, "I saw, he is [only] an eminent lover.

Yunus'dur benim adım
Gün geçtikçe artar odum
İki cihanda maksûdum
Bana seni gerek seni.

Aşîk oldum şoy ay yüze nizar oldum bal ağîza
Nazar kîldîm kara göze siyah olun kaşa geldim.

Aşîklarîn gönlü gözü maşuk dapa gitmiş olur
Ben gönlümü kul eyleyem başed ki maşuka irem.

Ben be mülke garib geldün ben bu ilden bizerem
Bu dutsaklîk Tuzağîn demi geldi üzerem.

İki kişi söyleşür Yunus i görsem diyü
Biri aydur ben gördüm bir aşik kocaimiş.

I fell in love with this moon-face: Lavishly I am scattered on the honeymouth
I glanced at the black eye; being black I landed on the eyebrow.

Thy love hath taken me from me; Thou, Thou art needed by me.
Day and night do I burn; Thou, Thou art needed by me.
Were they to slay me, let them winnow my ashes into the heavens.
There let my dust cry, "Thou, Thou art needed by me."

Işkun aldî benden beni bana seni gerek seni
Ben yanaram düni güni bana seni gerek seni.
Eğer beni öldüreler külüm göke savuralar
Toprağîm anda çağîra bana seni gerek seni.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yunus Emre (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.