YUNUS EMRE DİVANINDA BİR YEMİN SÖZÜ: VALLAHİ (original) (raw)

2021, YUNUS EMRE-MEHMET AKİF ARMAĞANI TÜRK DİLİ ARAŞTIRMALARI-I

Oath as a concept is a social and original tradition belonging to Eastern and Western societies that have undergone change and metamorphosis from ancient societies to the present. It is a binding practice based on ritual under the name of vow, and then based on religious belief, and it is also encountered in Islam, Christian and Jewish societies, and polytheistic religions. The oath, which has a stereotyped structure and is passed on from generation to generation, has anonymous features and contains some rules. It also reflects the religious, familial, and social value judgments of the society it belongs to and is based on consensus. This study discourses the use and characteristics of the word va’llâhi, which is still in use as a phrase for oath in contemporary Turkish, in a total of 417 poems in Yûnus Emre’s Divan published by Mustafa Tatçı (2020). A total of 434 poems were examined by including the writing of va’llâh by M. Fatih Köksal’s (2014) work consisting of 17 poems in the scope of the study. For this purpose, in this study, first, the concept of oath is discussed, next, the usage of the word in historical and contemporary Turkish dialects is emphasized, and, after the examination of the word’s semantical developmental features, its usage features in Yûnus Emre’s Divan are discoursed. Yûnus Emre used the word va’llâhi 5 times in his poems. In today’s Turkish, there is insistence and persuasion in the usage of the word in the sense of oath. However, Yûnus Emre, who tries to reach the path of God, used the word va’llâhi in his instructive poems, where he tried to spread Sufism morality, in the sense of affirmation or approval rather than oath. The poet, who is very sincere in his words and thoughts, along with being certain of his thoughts that he stated, occasionally used the word va’llâhi to confirm himself. The use of the word in the form of va’llâh is a requirement of meter and is used 7 times in the Divan. The poet, who is extremely sincere in his words and thoughts, and certain of himself and his faith, did not use the word unless necessary but used appropriately in the sense of approval.