Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IIEvliya Çelebi
History
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II
Evliya Çelebi
Caucasus, South -- Description and travel; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History
Sheikh Geiklí Bábá Sultán was one of the followers of Ahmed Yessúí, and
came from Azerbeiján. He used to ride on wild roes in the woods, and
load gazelles with his baggage after he had harnessed them. He planted
a tree near the Seráï in the castle at Brússa, which has now arrived at
a great height. His tomb at Brússa in the great convent was built by
Orkhán.
Abdál Mússa, also a disciple of Ahmed Yessúí, came from Khorassán with
Hájí Begtásh to Rúm. He was a companion of Geiklí Bábá, and was present
with him at the conquest of Brússa, where he was buried in a convent.
Abdál Murád Sultán, one of the Saints lost in abstraction (Santons),
who was present at the conquest of Brússa. He is buried in a convent
facing the town on the South side, in a pleasant place, which is at the
same time a pleasure garden for the inhabitants of Brússa. A sword,
three cubits long is shown here from which Sultán Ahmed I. cut off one
cubit’s length, which he placed in his treasury.
Molá Shems-ud-dín Mohammed Ben Mohammed Ben Hamza Ben Mohammed
Fanarí, the sun of hidden things, and the moon of life, one of the
first divines of Sultán Ilderím, has left works on seventy different
scientific subjects, but by God’s will became blind at last. It is
related that having opened the grave of his master Kara Ala-ud-dín, a
voice was heard saying: “Art thou there? God deprive thee of sight!”
and a whirlwind rising at the same moment blew all the dust of the
grave into his eyes, by which he became blind. He was one of the
divines who denied the verse; “The earth does not eat the flesh of
the Ulema.” Aúz-páshá, Sultán Orkhán’s Vezír, having a spite against
Fanárí, said, “May I see the day on which I shall perform the prayer
for the dead over this blind Mollá’s grave.” This being told to the
Mollá, he said “God Almighty can yet take away the sight of the
Páshá, and give me back mine to perform prayer on his grave;” and it
so happened that Aúz-páshá having had his eyes put out by command of
Sultán Orkhán for a badly executed commission, Fanarí had his sight
restored to him the same night, and performed the prayer of death on
the Páshá. He died in the year 833, and reposes at Brússa near his
college.
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