Hoca Ahmed Yesevî’nin halkın anlayabileceği bir dil ve hece vezniyle dörtlükler

The poems of Hoca Ahmed Yesevî (Khoja Akhmet Yassawi) are called “hiqmet”,written in stanza form and syllabic meter with a languge that the people canunderstand. Yesevî aims at teaching the people manners of order, religous-suficsubjects with his hikmets. Teaching some important subjects in simple poetic formwith meter and rhyme is a method that has been tried by many writers andintellectuals, which has given positive/useful results in different periods of history.The success of the method lies in the easy memorization of measured and rhymedstatements that sticks in the mind. The Quran whose verses end with sounds that canbe regarded as prose rhyme is the best example affirming this opinion. Written infourteenth century, Mu‘înu’l-Murîd by Sheikh İslam is also a poetic work aiming toteach the people the rules of Islam and pillars of faith in stanzaic form. We also seethe background thoughts of Yesevî’s hiqmets in early twentieth century author ZiyaGökalp’s prose and poetry. Gökalp thinks that national epics, Turkish folk tales andlegends, religio-mythical and historical topics can be taught easily with metrical andryhmed sayings. These humanistic and moral thoughts taught in poetic form led todescribing him as a sheikh coming from Khorasan or Uzbekistan. Yesevî deals withdifferent religious-sufic topics in his hiqmets in Dîvân. It can be said that the maintopics of his hiqmets are sharia rules, the sunna of Prophet Muhammad, love of theprophet, the manners of Yesevî order, traditions-customs and conventions, love andsigns, difficulties of love etc. Among these, love is the reason for the change inAhmed-i Yesevî’s life. Reaching beloved and eternal happiness is only possiblethrough love.