Yunus Emre (also known as Dervis Yunus, c. 1240–c. 1320) was an Anatolian poet, dervish, and Sufi mystic. Emre’s verse was devoted to human destiny and divine love, which deeply influenced Turkish culture.
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Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a great influence on Turkish literature from his own time until today. His poems concern divine love as well as human love of the Divine as God and the Perfect Master, Beloved, Friend and human destiny and weakness.
To love the world is to be afflicted.
The poems that have lived in the hearts of men and in their speech, for more than seven centuries.
Know yourself. This has always been the call of wise men to all human beings for centuries. Although there is no distance, knowing ourselves is the longest and the hardest journey that we may ever experience. For we ourselves are the biggest puzzle to be solved.
Yunus Emre attempts to illuminate the issue of “knowing yourself” which is the centre of Sufism and all great mystic traditions.
The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries.
The Turkish thinker and poet who has been a leading light for humanity for centuries with his suggestions to adopt the values of patience, satisfaction, tolerance, generosity, goodness and virtue in line with the teachings of Islam.
To love the world is to be afflicted.
