LOVE OF HUMAN BEING IN THE DIVAN OF AZIZ MAHMUD HUDAI

Aziz Mahmud Hudai is one of Sufi poets who grew in the Anadolu land in Turkey in the 16th century. He was born in 1541 in ġereflikoçhisar town to the south of Ankara. Aziz Mahmud Hudai founded of the branch of the method of going from outside to the hermitage. He died in Istanbul in 1628 about 87 years old. He wrote about 30 books in Arabic and Turkish to educate Muslims and guiding them according to Sunni’s doctrine. In addition to be a Sufi, He is also considered a Divan Poet. His grave is in a graveyard in Istanbul. The poetic work of Aziz Mahmud Hudai is known by the Collection of Divine Poetry. It consists of 255 hymns and several poems written in stanzas and quatrains. It is an important work that all Turkish and Islamic worlds respect. The diction of the Divan or the collection is simple, fluent, and sometimes didactic. The subjects that the collection of poems or Divan deals with are the Sufi’s causes and focuses generally on aspects like acknowledging God and Monism. Tasawwuf is a branch of the basic Islamic Sciences in the Islamic tradition. Sufism, which emphasizes the moral education and upbringing like chastisement and purification, pays a great deal of importance on the love of human being. Causes like the origin of mankind comes from Prophet Adam and the fact that every human being has the ability to be a Muslim and that this human being if the most precious among all the creatures created by God, these causes, or subjects represent the basis of the Human love in Sufism. Aziz Mahmud Hudai spent his life in tasawwuf and led a group of people whom he founded himself. In this context, we find in his Divan or collection of poems, how to deal with the human love in different and creative perspectives. This study introduces information about the life of Aziz Mahmud Hudai and his religious and Sufi personality in addition to his literary works. After introducing a detailed analysis of the Divan of Aziz Mahmud Hudai, the research paper focuses on the main subject of the paper which love of human being. The last section of this study deals with human love in the Divan of Aziz Mahmud Hudai which represents the end of the study