Zileli Fedai

 Zileli Fedai

There is not much information available about his life. Based on his own poems, it is understood that he spent his life as a wanderer, traveling to many provinces. He traveled to Istanbul for a while and frequented Kumkapı Sazlık Kahve, one of the ashik gathering places in Istanbul, where he had conversations and formed friendships with the ashiks of the time.


One day, when he visited Sazlık Kahve, someone asked about Zile'li Talibi (Talibi from Zile), and in response, he described the death of his master with the following lines and requested a Fatiha prayer for him:


"Dediler mevlidin olur nereden

Dedim ki aslımız olur Zile’den

Dediler Talibi n’oldu oradan

Dedim bir Fatiha Aziz İstanbul"


According to Fedaî, a person needs to join a spiritual path, receive guidance from a spiritual guide (pir), and attain enlightenment and maturity. With this belief, Fedaî embraced the Hurufi faith. After Istanbul, he went to Egypt and served for a while in the dergah (spiritual lodge) of Kaygusuz Abdal, whom he deeply respected, in Cairo.


In his poems, Fedaî extensively used Ottoman Turkish words, reflecting the linguistic characteristics of the era he lived in. He used both aruz meter and syllabic meter (hece) in his works. However, his successful works are primarily in the form of semai and koşma, which are genres of folk poetry.


Arzuhal eyledim şahlar şahına

Kıl derdime derman el’aman dedim

Özüm derman ettim ben dergâhına

Dahi birliğine yok güman dedim.


Kâmeti melektir siması huri

Uğruna koymuşum bu can ü seri

Bir ihsan eylersen tez eyle bari

Serde takat yoktur hal yaman dedim.


Beni mecnun etti mahmur bakışın

Ciğer kebap aşk od’una yakışın

Ruhum gelüp şu bedenden çıkışın

Şefaat kânısın Mustafa’m dedim


Kaşlar nizam kurmuş kirpik terazi

Nur ile boyanmış yüzünün benzi

Lebin şekerinden ver bazı bazı

Kulundur Fedaî ol zaman dedim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4FwSk5XWo&t=5s original

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