Hacı Bektaş Veli’nin Nafileler Hakkındaki Açıklaması

This translation consists of a two-page risale, which is the subject of Hacı Bektaş Veli's answer to the question asked by his followers/murids. The work is on the last two pages of the work named Rubaiyyat-ı Hayyam, in the Mevlana Museum Specialized Library/Mevlana Müzesi İhtisas Kütüphanesi, No 2599. His followers asked questions and asked for answers to Hacı Bektaş Veli in order to benefit from his fayz in a conversation assembly. He answered the question asked about voluntary prayer and fasting by quoting the same expressions in Hace Abdullah Ensari's İlahi-name. Missing and spelling errors in the text have been corrected. The work is given here, along with a photograph and translation of the original. The work has not attracted much attention so far and has not been evaluated sufficiently in the literature. In this respect, for the first time, with this study, the work was shared with its translation and text. Keywords: Hacı Bektas Veli, Hace Abdullah Ensari, İlahi-name.