Yunus Emre was a 13th century Turkish poet and Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Anatolian culture. He spent 40 years studying under the Sufi master Tapduk Emre and was deeply influenced by the mystic poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi. Emre wrote poems focused on themes of divine love and human destiny that used a simple style and folk poetic structures. His works promoted ideals of humanism, social justice, charity and making peace between all faiths and nations.

1. " W E L O V E T H E C R E A T U R E S ,
D U E T O T H E C R E A T O R . "
Yunus Emre

2. His Life
Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic who greatly influenced
Anatolian culture. His name, Yunus, is equivalent to the English name Jonas.
He was born in 1238 and died in 1320 in Turkey.
We know little about the life of Yunus Emre because the sources available to us
are precious, scant and uncertain. Almost every significant thing about his life
must be drawn from his poems.

3. Though legend obscures the facts of his life, he is known to have
been a Sufi (Islamic mystic) who sat for 40 years at the feet of his
master, Tapduk Emre. Yunus Emre was well versed in mystical
philosophy, especially that of the 13th-century poet and mystic
Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī. Like Rūmī, Yunus Emre became a leading
representative of mysticism in Anatolia but on a more popular
level; he was venerated as a saint after his death.

4. His poems, which are devoted mainly to the themes of divine love
and human destiny, are characterized by deep feeling. He wrote in a
straightforward, almost austere style and mainly in the traditional
syllabic metre of Anatolian folk poetry. His verse had a decisive
influence on later Turkish mystics and inspired the poets of the
renaissance of Turkish national poetry after 1910.
He wrote in the Old Anatolian Turkish language, an early stage of
modern Turkish. The UNESCO General Conference unanimously passed a
resolution declaring 1991, the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth, "The
International Yunus Emre Year".

5. The most important concept in Yunus Emre's philosophy is the love of
humanity. No other poet glorifies humanity as much in world literature.
This philosophy of humanism, can be traced back to Yunus Emre
centuries ago. For this reason, we cannot consider Yunus as a typical
humanist. Contrary to other humanists, he loves human beings as the
most perfect creatures created by Allah, expressing his thoughts in the
verse, "We love the creatures, due to the Creator."

6. Yunus Emre's humanism is not only a humanism of "peace and
brotherhood" but also calls for social justice, charity and many other
familiar ideals of today's world. For example, Yunus Emre calls for
helping other people and sharing one's possessions with them:
If you have seen an unfortunate one,
and given him and old piece of clothing,
Tomorrow he will meet you
as if he had put on a heavenly robe.
. . .

7. Yunus was a popular poet, a preacher, a man of the people.
He called for social justice, equality and prosperity.
Toil, earn, eat , and give others your wages.
Our first duty is good character and good deeds.
Hand out to others what you earn,
Do the poor people a good turn.
. . .

8. Yunus Emre calls humans of all faiths, all nations to come together
and make peace:
Come here, let's make peace,
let's not be strangers to one another.
. . .

9. thankyou!