HASAN HİLMÎ DİVANI’NDA MUHABBET KAVRAMI
THE CONCEPT OF LOVING IN HASAN HILMI’S DIVAN

Summary/Abstract: One of the topics discussed in sufism terminology is the concept of loving. Islamic gnostic people preferred the concept of lovingas the counterpart of the most advanced level of love, the love word. According to sufis, there is love in the source of the universe and man’s creation. Many scholars and sufi scholars who written up works with the mien of sufism have expressed opinions on the concept of loving from this reality. Hasan Hilmi, one of the religious-sufi Turkish literature poets in 19th century, has used the concept of lovingin 320 times in his divan, which consists of naat. In this work, sufistic terms and metaphors belonging to Sufism are frequently used. Both the poet, in his work, has mentioned the sharia, sect, truth and ingenuity which are the four doors of sufism, and he has benefited from the concept of conversation. Hasan Hilmi benefited from some sufistic symbols and associations while expressing the divine burning love inside himself and prophet love with the concept of conversation. The concept of conversation, which is at the center of the sufistic thought, has been tried to be given the meaning in Hasan Hilmi by analogy mostly.

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