Yunus Emre Şiiri ve Çevirisi

İlim İlim Bilmektir

İlim ilim bilmektir
İlim kendin bilmektir
Sen kendini bilmezsin
Ya nice okumaktır

Okumaktan murat ne
Kişi Hak'kı bilmektir
Çün okudun bilmezsin
Ha bir kuru emektir

Dört kitabın ma'nisi
Bellidir bir elifte
Sen elifi bilmezsin
Bu nice okumaktır


Yunus Emre der hoca
Gerekse bin var hacca
Hepisinden iyice
Bir gönüle girmektir

Yunus Emre

Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:

Yunus Emre
English version by Namık Kemal Zeybek

Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.

What is the purpose of reading those books?
So that Man can know the All-Powerful.
If you have read, but failed to understand,
Then your efforts are just a barren toil.

The true meaning of the four holy books
Is found in the alphabet's first letter.
You talk about that first letter, preacher;
What is the meaning of that-could you tell?

Yunus Emre says to you, Pharisee,
Make the holy pilgrimage if need be
A hundred times -- but if you ask me,
A visit to the heart is best of all.