Insan unutkandir. Humans are forgetful.

(English translation below)
Kur'an, 20:115: وَلَقَدْ عَهِدْنَا إِلَى آدَمَ مِن قَبْلُ فَنَسِيَ وَلَمْ نَجِدْ لَهُ عَزْمًا

"Andolsun, biz bundan önce Adem'e ahid vermistik, fakat o, unutuverdi. Biz onda bir kararlilik bulmadik."

Insan unutkandir.
Unutmamak icin sebatla kendi kendine hatirlatmasi, ya da ona hatirlatacak ortamlara girmesi luzumludur.
Sebat edebilmek icin cok istemek gerekir.
Cok istemek icin ikna olmak gerekir.
Ikna olmak imani percinlestirir.

Iman Yaratici'yla rabitayi guclendirir.
Bu rabita ve sevgi Yaratici'ndan uzaklasirken dahi O'na yakinlasmanin duasini insanin kalbine koyar.
Sebatla dua, unutulani hatirlatip O'ndan daha az uzaklasmaya, O'nu daha sik hatirlayip, O'na daha sik yakinlasmaya vesile olur.

Eger bilseydik ki, istedigimiz herseyin hakikati Rabbimizin guzel Asma'sina (Asma'ul Husna, isimler) dayaniyor, o zaman aslinda tek istedigimizin, O oldugunu ve O'ndan oldugunu fark ederdik...
O zaman O'nu istemek, hatirlamak daha kolay olurdu; ya da unutmamak icin caba gostermek daha zevkli olurdu....
Biz uzaklassak da, hakikat ki O bize hep yakindir...

Kur'an, وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِي عَنِّي فَإِنِّي قَرِيبٌ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُواْ لِي وَلْيُؤْمِنُواْ بِي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ (2:186)
"Kullarim Beni sana soracak olursa, muhakkak ki Ben (onlara) pek yakinim. Bana dua ettigi zaman dua edenin duasina cevap veririm. Öyleyse, onlar da Benim çagrima cevap versinler ve bana iman etsinler. Umulur ki irsad (dogru yolu bulmus) olurlar."

Kendi O Rahman Rahim olan rabbimiz, kendi ruhundan ufurdu/ufuruyor.....

Kur'an, 15:29 فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِي
 "Ona bir biçim verdigimde ve ona ruhumdan üfürdügümde..."

Biz o gercegi unutsak da, gercek degismez....

Kur'an, 9:59 قَالُواْ حَسْبُنَا اللّهُ سَيُؤْتِينَا اللّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ وَرَسُولُهُ إِنَّا إِلَى اللّهِ رَاغِبُونَ
"Bize Allah yeter; Allah pek yakinda bize fazlindan verecek, O'nun elçisi de. Biz gerçekten ancak Allah'a ragbet edenleriz"

Tevrat, Tekvin 1:26 "Tanrı, “Kendi suretimizde, kendimize benzer insan yaratalım” dedi." 

Incil, Yuhanna'nin Birinci Mektubu 4:8 "Tanri sevgidir."

Incil, Elcilerin Isleri 17:27 "Aslinda Tanri hicbirimizden uzak degildir."

Incil, Yakup'un Mektubu 4:8 "Tanri'ya yaklasin, O da size yaklasacaktir."

Kur'an, 18:24 إِلَّا أَن يَشَاء اللَّهُ وَاذْكُر رَّبَّكَ إِذَا نَسِيتَ وَقُلْ عَسَى أَن يَهْدِيَنِ رَبِّي لِأَقْرَبَ مِنْ هَذَا رَشَدًا (
"Ancak: "Allah dilerse" (insallah yapacagim de). Unuttugun zaman Rabbini zikret ve de ki: "Umulur ki, Rabbim beni bundan daha yakin bir basariya yöneltip-iletir." "

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Qur'an, 20:115: وَلَقَدْ عَهِدْنَا إِلَى آدَمَ مِن قَبْلُ فَنَسِيَ وَلَمْ نَجِدْ لَهُ عَزْمًا

"AND, INDEED, long ago did We impose Our commandment on Adam; ^[102] but he forgot it, and We found no firmness of purpose in him."

Humans are forgetful.

In order not to forget, she must remind herself with perseverance, or she needs to put herself into contexts that will remind her.

In order to persevere, she must want it greatly.

In order to want it greatly, she must be convinced.

Conviction solidifies faith.

Faith strengthens the connection with the Creator.

This connection and love puts into the heart of the human, the prayer of becoming nearer to It (God) even when she is drifting away.

Prayer with perseverance, becomes the means to remember what was forgotten and to drift away from It less often, to remember It more often and to become nearer to It more often. 

Had we known that the truth of all our desires rests in the Beautiful Names (Asma'ul Husna, Attributes of God) of our Sustainor Lord, then we would realize that in fact our only desire is It and from It.

In that situation it would be easier to want and remember It; or it would be more pleasant to strive not to forget...

Even when we drift away, the truth is, It is always close to us...

Qur'an, وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِي عَنِّي فَإِنِّي قَرِيبٌ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُواْ لِي وَلْيُؤْمِنُواْ بِي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ (2:186)
"AND IF My servants ask thee about Me - behold, I am near; I respond to the call of him who calls, whenever he calls unto Me: let them, then, respond unto Me, and believe in Me, so that they might follow the right way."

Our Sustainor Lord who is the Most Merciful and Gracious, has breathed/is breathing into us from Its spirit....

Qur'an, 15:29 فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِي
 "and when I have formed him fully and breathed into him of My spirit...."

Even when we forget this truth, it remains the truth....

Qur'an, 9:59 قَالُواْ حَسْبُنَا اللّهُ سَيُؤْتِينَا اللّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ وَرَسُولُهُ إِنَّا إِلَى اللّهِ رَاغِبُونَ
"God is enough for us! God will give us [whatever He wills] out of His bounty, and [will cause] His Apostle [to give us, too]: verily, unto God alone do we turn with hope!"

Old Testament, Genesis 1:26 "Man was made in the image of God."  

New Testament, 1 John 4:8 "God is love." 

New Testament, Acts 17:27 "In fact, he is not far off from each one of us."  

New Testament, James 4:8 "Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you."

Qur'an, 18:24 إِلَّا أَن يَشَاء اللَّهُ وَاذْكُر رَّبَّكَ إِذَا نَسِيتَ وَقُلْ عَسَى أَن يَهْدِيَنِ رَبِّي لِأَقْرَبَ مِنْ هَذَا رَشَدًا (
"without (adding], "if God so wills." [33] And if thou shouldst forget [thyself at the time, and become aware of it later], call thy Sustainer to mind and say: "I pray that my Sustainer guide me, even closer than this, to a consciousness of what is right!" "

PS: Thank you mummy for your contributions to this reflection :)

Mithat Körler - Beni Sensiz Bırakma - Don't leave me without you

Don't leave me without you

Undeceitful like the heart of a baby
I love you without reason or cause
My prayer every night before sleep
I wish you and me for a lifetime
Your name a poem on my tongue
Your eyes the most beautiful city I've seen

May love age with you in my heart
As though you've been with me for a thousand years
My place my home is in your arms
Don't leave me without you, not even for a moment
May love age with you in my heart
As though you've been with me for a thousand years
My place my home is in your arms

Don't leave me without you, not even for a moment
Undeceitful like the heart of a baby
I love you without reason or cause
My prayer every night before sleep
I wish you and me for a lifetime
Your name a poem on my tongue

Your eyes the most beautiful city I've seen
May love age with you in my heart
As though you've been with me for a thousand years
My place my home is in your arms
Don't leave me without you, not even for a moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q1ZBtHTTqHM

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Beni Sensiz Bırakma

Bir bebeğin kalbi gibi yalansız
Nedensiz nasılsız seviyorum
Her gece uyumadan önce duam bu
Senle ben bir ömür diliyorum
Adın dilimde bir şiir
Gözlerin gördüğüm en güzel şehir

Seninle yıllansın aşk kalbimde
Sanki bin yıldır varsın benle
Yerim yurdum senin kollarında
Beni bir an bile sensiz bırakma
Seninle yıllansın aşk kalbimde
Sanki bin yıldır varsın benle
Yerim yurdum senin kollarında

Beni bir an bile sensiz bırakma
Bir bebeğin kalbi gibi yalansız
Nedensiz nasılsız seviyorum
Her gece uyumadan önce duam bu
Senle ben bir ömür diliyorum
Adın dilimde bir şiir

Gözlerin gördüğüm en güzel şehir
Seninle yıllansın aşk kalbimde
Sanki bin yıldır varsın benle
Yerim yurdum senin kollarında
Beni bir an bile sensiz bırakma

 

Ferdi Tayfur - Sevdalılar Beni Anlar - The Lovesick Understand Me

Lovesickness Understands Me

Addicted to your existence
Mad with your absence
Don't deprive me of you
I am crazy about your eyes

My love like high mountains
Volcanoes erupt within me
You wouldn't understand baby
The (those who are) lovesick understand me

Do I deserve being devastated
Burning every day in the flames of your love
What is it but tears
If I love you without you
What is it but agony
If I love you without you

My love like high mountains
Volcanoes erupt within me
You couldn't know my little
Lovers understand me
Lovers from the soul understand me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ITAJmi0Lg

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Sevdalılar Beni Anlar

Varlığının tiryakisi
Yokluğunun delisiyim
Beni senden mahrum etme
Gözlerinin hastasıyım

Sevgim yüce dağlar kadar
Içerimde volkan kaynar
Anlamazsın sen bebeğim
Sevdalılar beni anlar

Reva mıdır harap olmak
Aşkın ile her an yanmak
Gözyaşından başka nedir
Seni sevip sensiz olmak
Izdıraptan başka nedir
Seni sevip sensiz olmak

Sevgim yüce dağlar kadar
Içerimde volkan kaynar
Bilemezsin sen küçüğüm
Aşık olan beni anlar
Candan seven beni anlar

Grup Kızılırmak - Ah Sensiz - Alas without you

Alas without you

The sun has been sulky, shines no longer, alas without you
With your pretty eyes like an apricot, look at me

Sorrow has partnered me, I cannot come over it, alas without you
With your words sweeter than honey, smile at me

Thorns have surrounded my roses, I cannot gather them
Your hands more elegant than roses, offer them to me
My nights burn with yearning alas without you
Come forth my rose, become the blowing wind, come to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a-k1yamXAN4

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Ah Sensiz

Güneş küsmüş şavkımıyor ah sensiz
Zerdali güzeli,gözlerinle bak bana

Keder eş oldu yenemiyorum ah sensiz
Baldan tatlı sözlerinle gül bana

Diken sarmış güllerimi deremiyorum
Gülden nazik ellerini uzat bana
Hasret yanar gecelerim ah sensiz
Davran gülüm esen yel ol gel bana

Yasemin Mori - Aslında Bir Konu Var - In fact there is an issue

In fact there is an issue...
Why can’t we talk about it?
Why are you always silent?
I am pretty, women are terrible!
Why won’t you laugh at this?
Why are you always unhappy?
When asked questions you say,
Why are you a child, why won’t you grow up?
I have no answers at hand!
What good would it be even if I had answers; you still wouldn’t turn your face towards me...

The taste always remains in my mouth,
Rusty like grapes, doesn’t go away when it‘s over!
It has both wounds and thorns!
It pokes me, it wounds me too,
It hurts my mornings...

There are some people, there are some
Some are drunk again!
Some are summer some are winter
Some come before!
Some are open honest with us, some are regretful!
Some are very painful for us!
Some are very painful!
Some have brought much pain to us!
Some are aware, some haven’t realized!
Some are right, some are left, some haven’t realized!
S/he didn’t see it either!
And this was never enough for you...

The triangular planets, the legitimized murders
They hit him/her again, bam! to him/her again!
Rewind again, drunk again,
S/he's remained far from me again!
S/he didn’t leave me, didn’t abandon me and go away!

One side is tails, one side is heads,
And one side is left for me!
They’ve called to him/her so beautifully again...
Eyes wide open again, their eyes wide open!
Some have caused us much pain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckfbofttupY
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*************** Original lyrics from http://www.sarkisozum.gen.tr/sarkisozu/yasemin-mori/366149-aslinda-bir-konu-var
aslında bir konu var..
neden konuşamayız?
neden hep suskunsun?
ben güzelim kadınlar berbat!
neden buna gülmezsin?
neden hep mutsuzsun?
sorular sorunca dersin ki,
neden çocuksun neden büyümezsin?
elimde cevabım yok!
olsa neye fayda, yüzün bana dönmez ki..

ağzımda hep tadı var,
üzüm gibi paslı bitince gitmez!
hem yarası hem dikeni var!
batırır beni de yaralar,
acıtır sabahlarımı..

birileri var birileri var
birileri yine sarhoş!
birileri yaz birileri kış
birileri önce!
birileri bize apaçık, birileri pişman!
birileri bize çok acı!
birileri çok acı!
birileri bize çok acı getirdiler!
birileri farkında birileri farketmedi!
birileri sağ birileri sol birileri farketmedi!
o da bunu görmedi!
bu da sana hiç yetmedi...

üçgen gezegenleri meşhur cinayetleri
yine onu vurdular yine ona bam!
yine geri sar, yine sarhoş
yine benden uzak kalmış!
beni terketmedi, beni bırakıp gitmedi!

bir yanı tura bir yanı yazı,
bir yanı da bana kalmış!
yine ona ne güzel seslendiler...
yine gözü apaçık, gözleri apaçık!
birileri bize çok acı çektirdiler!

Hak serleri hayreyler / Truth (God) renders the bad good

Words full of wisdom by sufi poet and encyclopedist Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakki in simple words and concise and eloquent verses.
Offering us strong remedies against the angst of future and existence, as well as against all calamities, if one can only live, think and feel by these principles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/İbrahim_Hakkı_Erzurumi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WL9Loe9W8Mc


Here is my attempt at translating the best known stanza:

Truth (God) renders the bad good
Don't assume It (God) would render it (the bad things we were made not to like) any other way
The enlightened one watches it (happen)
Let's see what the Companion (Guardian, Sustainer) makes
What ever It makes, It renders it beautiful 

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Hak serleri hayreyler
Zannetme ki gayreyler
Arif ani seyreyler
Mevla gorelim neyler
Neylerse guzel eyler

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Allah'in vatandaslari / Citizens of God

Keske hepimiz, devletin beyin yikamasina, dayatmasina karsi cikabilsek; keske hepimiz devlet sinirlarini asabilsek; keske hepimiz baska kabileden etnik kokenden insanlarin kimliklerini degistirmeye, onlarin kimliklerini dunya savasindan sonra bir kac devlet adaminin siyasi emellerle cizdigi ulke sinirlariyla belirlemeye calismasak; bayrak, vatan, millet, devlet kavramlarinin icinin boslugunu gorebilsek; hepimizin ayni dunyanin vatandasi, ayni Yaraticinin cesit cesit dil, renk ve etknik kokenle yaratilmis kullari oldugumuzu gorebilsek. InshaAllah bir gun savaslarin ve zulmun anasi olan irkci ve milliyetci, "benim milletim daha kiymetli, daha ustun"cu, "baska milletten olanlarin benimki kadar hakki yok"cu anlayisi zihinlerimizden kaziyabilsek. Bu toprak benim sen giremezsin, demesek. Sinirlarin, vizelerin, pasportlarin yersizligini ve zararini gorebilsek. Tum yeryuzunun insanlara, milletlere degil, sadece Allah'a ait oldugunu hatirlayabilsek. Yeryuzunde gezerken "ardullahu wasi'aa" "allah'in yeryuzusu genistir" bilinciyle gezebilsek. "Istanbul'dan en uzak sehir" neresidir diyince, Agri (ya da Turkiye'de herhangi bir sehir) demeyip de Dunya capinda dusunebilsek. InshaAllah bir gun hepimiz, bir kac politikacinin tanimladigi bir devletin vatandasi olarak degil de, Allah'in dunyadaki vatandas ve kullari olma bilinciyle yasayabiliriz. InshaAllah... belki o zaman daha bariscil bir insan irki olabiliriz.
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I wish we could all object the brain washing and the imposing of the states; I wish we could all think beyond the state borders; I wish we didn't attempt to change the identities of people who are from other tribes or ethnic backgrounds, that we didn't attempt to identify them by the borders of countries drawn by a few politicians with political ambitions; I wish we could see the emptiness of concepts like flag, homeland, nation, state; I wish we could all see that we are citizens of the same world, we are all worshipers created with a variety of tongues, colors and ethnicities by the same Creator. God willing, one day, I wish we could eradicate from our minds the mother of wars and cruelty, the racist and nationalist understanding that dictates "my nation is greater than others", "people of other nations aren't entitled to as many rights as mine". I wish we didn't say "this land belongs to me, you may not enter". I wish we could see the needlessness and the harm of borders, visas, passports. I wish we could remember that the entire earth doesn't belong to individuals or nations, but instead, it belongs to its Creator. I wish we could travel the earth with the consciousness that "God's earth is wide" ("ardullahu wasi'aa" from the Qur'an). When asked "What's the furthest city from New York?" I wish we wouldn't answer "Los Angeles" (or some other city in the USA) but instead I wish we could think in terms of the whole world. God willing, one day, we can live with the consciousness of being the citizens and worshipers of God on Earth, rather than the citizens of a country identified by a few politicians. We pray that God wills this... perhaps then, we could become a more peaceful human race.