THE CONTINUITY IN THE WORKS OF MASHHUR ZHUSUP AND YUNUS EMRE

Abstract

The introduction of the paper covers the cognitive connections and similarities in the points of views of Yunus Emre, Mashkhur Zhussip and Qozha Akhmet Yassuyi. The poet Yunus Emre inferred the most reliable way to reach out to Allah is to love Allah, and it is not difficult to notice the essence of this view in the works of Mashkhur Zhussip who was a chronologist, historian, poet and ethnographer. Both of them gave a priority on the topics, such as life, death, wealth, fate and truth which human thinks upon. The paper discusses how they clearly and fairly stated human life and fate issues via elaborating mysteries in the essence of those topics. The paper presents both Mashkhur Zhussip and Yunus Emre called for people to strive for achieving perfection by managing their dissatisfaction through the instances in the main body of the paper. It justifies their creativity does not select a nation but focuses on all human values. The primary concept in the philosophy of Yunus Emre as well as Mashkhur Zussip is to love humans. Indeed we cannot say there are so many poets honouring and loving humans in the world literature. From their compositions, we are aware that these poets achieved to thinking level on humanism several centuries ago before the western purposed it. Yunus Emre and Mashkhur Zhussip considered values from all human values and positioned all are human despite their religion, language and ethnicity. Their works covering these views are thoroughly discussed in the main body of the paper. In the conclusion of the paper, we attempted to prove that the common thoughts met in all their poems are humanity, justice, acting by thinking and maintaining humanity and their effort were devoted to developing human spirit by giving examples from their poems.