How can you live in this world

If you don't know something about love,

Everyone cares for something,

Everyone even loves something.

This world of Haqq

Holds a hundred thousand loves,

Look deep within yourself

To see which one is worthy of you.

On the one hand is the love

Of the compassionate, merciful One,

On the other is the love of satan, the rejected,

Your love decides

What you are worthy of.

The Prophet Muhammad

Fell into such love here,

His witness was the angel Gabriel,

His Beloved was the Creator.

Mustafa's companions were ‘Umar,

‘Uthman and ‘Ali, and

The greatest of them

Was Abu Bakr, the truthful one.

When Muhammad, the joy of the universes,

Ascended to heaven on mir'aj,

He asked God, Haqq,

For blessings on his followers.

Yunus, this is the truth given to you,

How shameful it would be

If you were to look again

At all that you saw before.

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(From: Yunus Emre: His Life and Selected Poems written and edited by Faruk Dilaver)