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THE JOURNEY OF LOVE

Welcome, son.

Come closer.

Come closer.

Sit down.

If you would allow it...

...I brought you presents, my Sultan.

Ismail Can...

...take the gift of our guest.

Let our friends share it.

Speak, son, what do you want from us?

The drought has drowned the land in poverty, Sultan.

The earth has cracked from lack of water.

My village has...

...neither flour to make bread...

...nor any wheat to make flour.

My village elders said...

...go, find Hadji Bektash.

He would not send you back empty handed.

He would turn his face from the poor and hapless, they said.

For my family...

...and for the villagers...

...I want wheat, my Sultan.

If, instead of wheat...

...I were to give you favour?

What should I do with favour, sire?

My family and the villagers are hungry.

I want wheat.

What if we count what you brought...

...and gave you two breaths for each piece?

Would breaths and favour fill the stomachs of children, sire?

I need wheat.

Ismail Can...

...give our guest as much wheat from the granary as his tumbrel can carry.

May God bless you, sire.

-God bless you. -Do not mention it.

God bless you.

What a grave mistake I have made, sire.

You wanted to give me favour, I insisted on wheat.

Take back your wheat.

As you said before...

...give me breath.

The time for that has long passed, son.

We transferred the key, which will open your lock, to someone else.

Go find him.

Make your request of Tapduk Emre, pray.

Your key is in his possession.

Allahu ekber.

Allahu ekber.

Eshedu en lâ ilâhe illallah.

Make your request of Tapduk Emre, pray.

Your key is in his possession.

Eshedu en lâ ilâhe illallah.

This is my resignation, Subashi.

But, Master judge...

Do what is necessary.

Subashi, grant me your blessing.

Permission to enter?

Have you come, Yunus?

I have come, Sheikh.

Wheat for he who wants wheat, breath for he who wants breath.

Whatever you ask for is what he gives, my Sultan Hadji Bektash.

If you are Yunus, where is Judge Yunus?

He is dead, Sheikh.

Master judge is dead.

How did you come, then?

I died, Sheikh.

I died.

I died and came here.

Our dervish lodge is not for the dead, but for the living, Yunus.

Some come to be, some come to die.

To be and to die, you have to be alive.

The dervish lodge has four walls.

Made of mud-brick.

We even built the walls ourselves.

Do not think that there are miracles in the lodge.

I would not dare!

The miracle is in you.

So, the miracle is in me.

Does it grow on trees that we possess miracles?

So many roads we have walked together, what miracles have you ever seen in us?

I did not come here for the lodge...

...I came to you, Sheikh.

Why did you come to us?

What do you want from us? Pray, tell.

I would like to obey...

...to be your dervish.

This has its own ways and rules.

Everything happens in its own time.

Come after the mid-afternoon prayer.

Come and obey.

Kasim!

At your service, Sheikh.

Waiting for your orders.

You know Yunus.

Whatever he has lost, he has come to us to seek it.

We cannot ask the one who comes to leave.

Well, only the madrasa student understands the ways of the madrasa.

Take him, show him his palace, pray.

Eshedu en lâ ilâhe illallah.

You say, "I have come to accompany you on the way."

Welcome, welcome.

As you seek your destiny from us...

...so be of service, find it.

Those whose hearts are dark misunderstand these words.

Service is not for us, but for the sake of...

...everything from man to ant.

Do not forget, everything is His light.

Like a drop shows there is a sea...

...and all creation is the prosperity of Him, the glory of Him.

So, live the kelime-i tevhidi that you say.

What does that mean?

One who says la ilaha illallah from the heart...

...who says, "there is no existence other than you,"...

...will be conscious with every step.

It is a matter of feeling.

There are such worlds and beings everywhere you step.

Serve even them.

Now go to your cell...

...do not fail to repeat kelime-i tevhit.

La ilahe illallah, la ilahe illallah.

La ilahe illallah, la ilahe illallah.

La ilahe illallah, la ilahe illallah.

La ilahe illallah, la ilahe illallah.

La ilahe illallah, la ilahe illallah.

La ilahe illallah, la ilahe illallah.

Mesud Agha is also a witness, Sheikh!

There will be neither a vineyard, nor a garden, if I do not farm.

It would have become a thorn patch long ago.

He says I will go to court.

At least he is not taking it by force.

One cannot say, "do not go to court."

Well, we want you to talk, Sheikh.

Azmi Agha is right.

He has been farming for years.

His brother, Gokmen, goes from Persia to Constantinople...

...travels, pursues enjoyment.

We can talk, we can talk but...

...you have the same mother and the same father.

It is his right. We will not stand in the way of him going to court.

Judgment does not come from the Judge, but comes from you, Sheikh.

It is what you say.

God knows the best.

Let us think about it.

Excuse us, Sheikh.

Come, Yunus, come on.

You were not here for dinner.

Even during a meal, it is not right to separate from the community.

A dervish is cooked in the kitchen.

Tell me.

I've eavesdropped by mistake, Sheikh.

Felt-maker Azmi and his brother have an inheritance case.

I have heard, Sheikh.

He said; "My brother is a tramp."

The Book...

...does not say Felt-maker Azmi's brother is a tramp...

...therefore, he has no right to inherit.

We would never utter what the landowner himself does not utter.

Far be it from me, Sheikh.

As you have mentioned, they both have right of possession.

How do they possess?

They farm there.

We are talking about the real owner of the property!

If you would allow...

...I can solve this matter between brothers, Sheikh.

There is good in peace.

Compromise is obligatory.

Even the name of our religion is peace.

If you would allow...

...I have full knowledge of inheritance law.

You say, "I have full knowledge."

I have full knowledge, Sheikh.

Sheikh!

If you want to serve and earn your destiny...

...I want to give you a very important task, Yunus.

Your wish is my command, Sheikh.

From now on, do the housekeeping of the dervish lodge.

Keep the interior, the cells, and the garden clean every day.

The cleaning of the toilets is the most important.

Start from Mirror's cell.

He does not have much time to sweep like we do.

THE JOURNEY OF LOVE

Based on Ibrahim Has' Tezkireyi Has and M. Tatci compilations.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim!

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alemin!

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alemin!

Er Rahmani Rahim!

Er Rahmani Rahim!

Azmi Agha!

Prepare your bow and arrow.

There is news from my brother-in-law in Gokchesaray.

They have seen five deer on Akchal Mountain.

They are all well-fed!

Is this your only problem, Bayram Agha?

We will cook in the honour of the Pulpit-maker.

What was that...

...you said? To hear you tell it, you hunted 60 deer in a single winter.

Peace be upon you.

Will Herbalist Husnu not come with you?

You were complaining about his debts to you.

Now you two are going hunting.

No, that is one thing, this is another.

He owes me, but he is not as lazy as the lot of you.

He wanted to come on his own, without an invitation.

Peace be upon you, Aghas.

-And upon you. -And upon you, Sheikh.

Sheikh, we are going out to hunt, would you like to come?

The hunter becomes the hunted, Bayram Agha!

I am a really good hunter, Sheik!

Peace be upon you.

And upon you, Sheikh.

Not at all!

Not at all!

Welcome, Sheikh.

How are you, Bayram Agha?

We are humble human beings, Sheikh. We have everything we need.

You honour us with your presence.

The weather is very hot, Sheikh, what can we offer? What would you like?

We take a simple breath, son.

Repair our diggers and shovels, Bayram Agha.

There is some garden work.

I am at your service, Sheikh.

Do not forget.

We cannot work without tools.

Take care of yourselves.

Kid, the Felt-maker says you have been away from work for years.

He says, "if I had not farmed there, there would be no garden."

I do not want the garden...

...I want my share in our land, Sheikh!

For 30 years, you have travelled!

Now, you started to think of your land?

How many people are fed from that land, do you know?

Or would you think that I am like you...

...wandering in Baghdad, Constantinople?

Sheikh, I respect you, but...

...I want my share!

He whom you ask is not the owner of the property.

Who, then?

Should I go and ask for my share from strangers?

It was your father's at one time.

Before that, your grandfather's.

Before that, his grandfather.

And he took it from a Greek.

It was left to him from his grandfather, too.

In that case, what property...

...or whose property are you talking about, son?

If this property was theirs...

...why did they give it to you?

But they could have taken it away with them.

We are talking about the owner of the property as well as the real owner.

Suppose you took the field.

How many years will you have it?

Twenty years, let's say 40.

Then to the new owner, then to the new owner.

To its next owner.

So, is this property yours?

So, it is neither the Felt-maker's nor yours.

Well, what is it?

You will guard the property for the owner...

...in return, you farm there...

...you make your living.

Good lecture, nice lecture, Master Sheikh...

...my brother has been guarding it for 20 years.

I have not had a single fruit of this garden.

How many years have you farmed, Azmi?

Twenty, Sheikh.

For 20 years from now on...

...Gokmen Agha will guard it, then.

What do you think?

I accept, Sheikh Effendi.

Sheikh...

...this tramp...

We are the ones who came to our Sheikh for judgment, Azmi Agha.

Look...

...you forced us here.

We thought something of ourselves.

-Far be it from us, Sheikh. -Far be it from us.

Let me help you, Sister Sultan.

We are here, do not bother.

Let me help you, please.

There are two steps left and it is really light.

Alacali is sick.

What is the matter with it?

It is not eating!

Mother said these herbs are medicine.

I heard that you came to God's path, that you have joined the dervish lodge.

Welcome to the dervish lodge.

Thank you.

Come on, Selman, chop-chop! There is a lot of work!

When they come, I will close shop, I will get out!

Peace be upon you.

And upon you, Sheikh.

Do not neglect our shovels and diggers, Bayram.

Do not delay, fix them when they come and send them back.

Your will is my command, Sheikh.

May God ease your endeavors, then.

Amin.

What happened, Azmi Agha?

Well. There you have it!

You came to this lodge to serve, right?

Why are you not satisfied?

Why are you bothered?

That is what you want!

Yunus Effendi!

Come, Yunus, come!

Do the tasks I give tire you?

They do not, Sheikh, they do not.

But I am not too prone to this kind of work.

Your heart must be prone, not just your hands.

There is no job to be done if you do not want to do it.

As long as you want it in your heart.

Sheikh...

...I know, one cannot ask for work.

But if you would give me the felt-maker and his brother's...

...inheritance problem...

...I would have the opportunity to serve much more usefully.

You speak of matters you know well, of course.

-And you speak true, as well. -Far be it from me.

With whom did you study Sharia Law in Karatay?

Master Shemseddin Mardini.

You had already said, "I am well-versed, I know."

I do know.

Azmi Agha, you appealed to our Sheikh for judgment...

...and then you disagree with it, how will this matter continue?

Were we mistaken by going to our Sheikh, Bayram Agha?

No excuses! The words have been spoken, the decision made. Why complain?

You say so, but if even a splinter of iron is stolen from your shop...

...you go after it immediately!

You did not lose a large farm as I did!

Now, how are these related?

Did Gokmen steal your land?

Bayram Agha is right, felt-maker, do not doubt the judgment of our Sheikh.

Your heart will darken, God forbid!

I do not doubt anything, Husnu Agha!

But I have told our Sheikh ten times.

My brother, Gokmen, is a tramp.

Well, did he not believe you?

He believed, but he gave Gokmen the farm!

He also wanted him to use the land!

In any case, no good can come from the way this conversation goes.

My mind cannot comprehend such matters.

The only thing it comprehends is that, whatever my Sheikh does, he does right.

Me too, Bayram Agha.

If our Sheikh made a mistake in judgment, if he did not serve right and truth...

...look, the mighty Judge himself resigned!

Thanks to him, the Pulpit-maker was saved...

...we will cook deer in honour of him.

You can talk like you have hunted the deer already.

I am not feeling so well today.

I intended to speak a little...

...nothing occurs to me.

Not at all, Sheik, not at all.

Am I a Sheikh?

What are you, then?

Your devotee, if you would allow, Sheikh.

What is this devotee?

Some of us have also studied Arabic in the great madrasah.

I shall tell you as much as I am able, then.

The devotee is someone...

...who, from the seat of their will, hands his will to God, who disregards himself...

...who knows only the Creator; this is a devotee.

Then, all of creation are devotees.

Ali Taygu, then remove the fleece that divides...

...so the Creator is revealed.

Far be it from me.

Then, the devotee is one who surrenders.

But this surrender is from the heart.

Is not our religion, Islam, also surrender?

What is the meaning of "Rab"? "He who educates."

Then the devotee will be surrendered with full acceptance.

Well, is it easy being Ali?

Why do you think everyone depends on him?

Because he is a devotee of...

...one for whom everything in the universe was created.

Surrender is how...

...our sage behaved to our Prophet.

It is also nurture.

As it is written in history books, his valour is not on battlefields...

...not the fight to the enemy...

...his real valour...

...is in his righteousness, the fight he had with his desires!

There was something in my mind...

...I said, after the prayer, but I could not sleep.

I want to give you another new task, Yunus.

I have been thinking, you're the only one who can do this dervish convent.

From now on, you say, "I do not know."

If someone asks anything, say, "I do not know."

Whoever wants an opinion...

...about anything, say, "I do not know."

Do not forget it!

How dhikr is obligatory to a devotee...

...from now on, "I do not know," is obligatory to you.

Good morning, then.

Good morning.

Good morning to you.

I do not know.

You have not slept all night, I suppose.

I do not know.

I am here to take a look at you.

Let me have ritual ablution, then.

You asked it yourself, Yunus.

What did you want? Did you come for it?

Have you resigned for doing sweeping?

You have no right to rebel. You asked it yourself.

No one forced you.

You came with your own feet.

La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

-Permission to enter, Dervish Chagri? -Estagfurullah, please.

-Selamun aleykum. -Aleykumselam.

My Lord will take on such a path, that man...

...slave becomes sultan, sultan becomes slave.

What happened, Boluluzade?

Come. Look what I will show you.

Good morning, brother.

Should we help?

I do not know.

Give you a hand and get it done?

I do not know.

Who was being? Who died?

Who was being? Who died?

Who was being? Who died?

I do not know.

Mirror feeds the ants.

Oh people! Do not say you do not hear!

Judge Yunus, who resigned, was replaced by chief Judge...

...the new Judge will be appointed! Do not say you do not hear.

Muslu Agha, who is the new Judge who will come? You know, say it.

Estagfurullah, Agha.

I'm a poor town crier.

I announce the news, not the known one.

Thank you, Muslu Agha.

Good news, tell us good news.

Was there any information? Who is the new Judge?

No, Mesud Agha!

When Judge Master Yunus's resignation...

...letter was received by Chief Judge, he was very surprised.

Surprised, of course. He has just begun.

Chief Judge tries to keep the justice of the country straight.

We are very surprised, Mesud Agha.

The real killer, Xanthus Khalil, was arrested, and Hasan released...

...while waiting for an exact opposite action from Master Judge...

...he resigned.

People surprise, but fate does not, Hasan Agha.

God wanted it that way.

What do you guys talk about?

What is Judge Yunus? Blacksmith Bayram has seen...

...even vizier Ata Fahrettin came and obeyed our Sheikh...

...and demanded prayer!

Is there anyone who does not know?

He was the big Seljuq vizier.

Well, are we talking about a normal person?

He's Judge. Do the dervish convent need a servant or Nallihan need a Judge?

Felt-maker, when the sharp side of the knife turns to you...

...your words have turned upside down!

What do you say, Bayram Agha?

How do you say what you said, Felt-maker?

Am I lying? Do we need a Judge to Nallihan or devotee to dervish convent?

Good news, Agha. The deer have moved to Akcal.

Let's hunt them before the hunters of Gokbel.

Look! Don't mind the Gokbel.

Selman, chop-chop, we will go out tomorrow. Finish this.

Who is it?

Kira.

Why are you surprised?

I did not know you would come today.

You will not invite me for that.

-Welcome, my daughter. -Thank you, mother.

Bulgur smells like amber.

I put mint in it.

Come on. Sit down.

You cannot believe what I will tell you.

So come on, tell me!

You know Judge Yunus? The devotee of my father the Sheikh!

Everyone knows him, my sister?

Everyone in Nallihan is talking about Judge Yunus.

They'd been talking in my father's office before.

What were they talking about?

Tell me about it.

Sheikh gave Judge Yunus the duty to clean the dervish convent.

-To Judge? -Shh...

Come on, let's not cool it.

What's to be ashamed of?

Is it possible that Nallihan has not heard?

Hear another, see other.

I do not know.

I do not know.

I do not know.

I do not know.

Go to the Judge office, take back your resignation.

Write a letter to return to duty to the Chief Judge.

We didn't appoint you a Judge...

...to resign your duty so that you can wear...

... foolish old dervish clothes, Master Yunus?

I do not know.

Did I teach you...

...for forgetting all that you know, I have taught you so long, Yunus?

I do not know.

Take back your resignation, beg for forgiveness, Yunus.

We will forgive. You will exercise justice.

What's good in this? He does not even know how to read or write.

You learned what I learned in Karatay.

What do you find in this dervish convent...

...that you cannot find in the highest madrasah?

Did we give you authority to be a servant to the dervish convent of an illiterate?

God.

Bismillah.

O God!

Bismillah!

-O God! -Bismillah.

-O God! -Bismillah.

-O God. -Bismillah.

It's all right.

Can we take a break, master?

We take a break at our Sheikh's place.

Come on, close the store.

You open shop after the morning prayer.

We will go to hunt with Husnu Agha before morning.

Do you not come to the dervish convent?

I go to home and change my clothes...

Then I will come, Sahin Agha.

Thank you.

-Selamunaleykum, Aghas. -Ve aleykumselam.

Aleykumselam.

Well, will you not come to the dervish convent?

-We will, sir. -See you later then, let's not be late.

Good night, Aghas.

What happened, Azmi Agha? Do you not come to the dervish convent?

My wife came home in time and told me she would say something, Sheikh.

I will go to home.

Fatma has always come to the dervish convent, but...

...say hello to Sister Fatma.

Aleykumselam.

I am going, Sheikh.

Let’s go, then to dervish convent.

Allahu ekber.

-O God. -Hu.

Welcome, friends.

How are you, Kemal?

God bless you, Sheikh.

I do not have a problem other than old age.

How is the vineyard? Are the crops good?

There are two boys, both of them out of control.

No one is farming there.

Apple gardens become thorny gardens.

The field needs farming.

It's like the truth. Give water...

...thorn grows up with the water, and apple, too.

The water does not discriminate...

...doesn't say it is apple, it is thorn.

There is such a blessing in the water...

...that both thorns and apples benefit.

If it did not grow your thorns...

...does it grow an apple garden, Master Kemal?

As a matter of fact, the boys are tramp...

...you do not have to say bad words.

Or the girls who grow up in the same room...

...would they be the rose ones?

Boys are considered to be the same water.

Truth is such a water.

Both the roses and the thorns grow with it.

It is such a food...

...that everybody benefits from it.

Let's think of our little chat room over here...

...there are roses and thorns.

Who will come to...

...an old, half-blind mason's conversation and would be considered as rose?

Did I tell you the story of the savage?

He is the Savage who killed Hazrat Hamza in Uhud.

Hazrat Hamza was the best of humans.

In the battle of Uhud, Kuhfarwas never as afraid of anyone as he was afraid of him.

Eight enemies were killed.

This time he attacked the others.

The Savage is also located behind a rock...

...aimed at him with his spear.

Abu Sufyan's wife, Hind, gave him this duty.

He would follow only Hazrat Hamza in the fighting square.

While he was roaring like a lion...

...Savage threw his spear and speared him.

The lion of God, the most courageous of the believers...

...he was a martyr in the fighting square.

However, he knew our Prophet very well.

They lived in the same place, He saw him all the time.

Here is the water that grows and grows a rose like Hamza...

...it raised a thorn like Savage.

The water did not separate whether it was rose or thorn.

So that when it grows a thorn, it kills a rose.

Oh, does the thorn turn into a rose?

How iron takes water, it becomes steel...

...as it gets water, the thorn will turn to the rose.

God can make it. But how is it?

Repentance. What does repent mean?

It means to be a rose.

That Hazrat Savage...

...let me tell you about him.

You are surprised that I said, " Hazrat."

I tell you the truth of the matter.

Eight years have passed since the Hijrah.

The day Mecca was conquered, he escaped from Mecca.

He came to Medina. He found our Prophet.

He was in his presence.

"I want to be a Muslim, Messenger of God," he said.

But one verse of the Koran says...

...those who are believers are those who do not commit adultery.

They do not drink.

They don't kill for unfair reasons.

Whoever does these things, be punished.

"I committed adultery in this situation...

...I drank and I also killed innocent people.

And killed your uncle that you love so much.

Is there no way to be a Muslim and to be saved?"

Our Prophet...

...turned to trembling in the face of Savage...

...and gave him a reply.

Except those who repent and do righteous deeds.

Here, the thorn growing with the same water turned to a rose.

The Savage, who killed Hazrat Hamza, became Hazrat Savage.

After a while, the great commander Khalid Bin Walid...

...went to war against the false prophet, Museylemetul Kezzab...

...who rebelled against our master and proclaimed his prophecy.

There was also Hazrat Savage in his army.

And with that spear that he martyred Hazrat Hamza...

...this time he killed the false prophet, Museylemetul Kezzab.

Even more astonishing is the thorn-headed liar prophet, Museyleme...

...at one time he believed in our prophet...

...he was a believer who was fed with the water that turns a thorn into rose.

-Our Sheikh speaks very nice. Thank God.

Well, you are sweeping before it gets crowded.

Our dervish convent has foundations, Yunus.

We can provide our food in our kitchen.

We plant our fruits and vegetables.

Together, we farm in the field by helping each other.

Do you want another mission?

I do not know.

After the prayer, take diggers, shovel...

...go to the bazaar, leave them with the Blacksmith.

Tell him, repair all of them, do the repairs!

Tell him...

...to finish his work...

...do not even step out of the shop before he finishes.

Come on, don't let me stop you.

Tell him not to neglect his work.

Tell him not to leave it unfinished.

Come to your senses, Judge Yunus.

Will you walk among people...

...whose life you had changed...

...with one word, with a digger and a shovel on your back?

I do not know.

Drop the broom.

Go back there, go back to your chair.

Translation: Sublime Translation