One of the 12th century sufis, Khoja Ahmad Yasawi earned reputation as the Peer of Turkestan and effected enormously the Turk to become Muslim and to shape their religious ideas. His ideas have reached to the present by means of his...
moreOne of the 12th century sufis, Khoja Ahmad Yasawi earned reputation as the Peer of Turkestan and effected enormously the Turk to become Muslim and to shape their religious ideas. His ideas have reached to the present by means of his religious, sufistic and moral advices. These advices called “hikma”, were collected in his book Divan-e Hikma. In Divan-e Hikma, Ahmad Yasawi featured the subject of “divine love” about which a big literature was consisted in sufi tradition. According to him, the love is the sole way of being reunited with Allah. However, being a lover of Allah requires to struggle with the self/nafs and to give up every profane thing. It is possibile with a spirituel training called sayr u suluq practiced under the guidance of sheikh/murshid. In the article, Ahmad Yasawi’s understanding of divine love will be introduced in the combination of the ideas of sufis, thinkers and poets, members of sufi tradition.
