Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved. Le… - Yunus Emre

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Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved.
Let me render my heart a slave, it may happen that I join the beloved.

Yunus Emre

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Yunus Emre (1238–1328) was a Turkish folk poet and Islamic Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Turkish culture. His name, Yunus, is the Muslim equivalent to the English name Jonah. He wrote in Old Anatolian Turkish, an early stage of Turkish.

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Alternative Names: Derviş Yûnus

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Yunus'dur benim adım
Gün geçtikçe artar odum
İki cihanda maksûdum
Bana seni gerek seni.

Işkun aldî benden beni bana seni gerek seni
Ben yanaram düni güni bana seni gerek seni.
Eğer beni öldüreler külüm göke savuralar
Toprağîm anda çağîra bana seni gerek seni.

Two Persons talk, saying "Would that I see Yunus
One [of them] says, "I saw, he is [only] an eminent lover.

Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved. Let me render my heart a slave, it may happen that I join the beloved. - Yunus Emre

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