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WHERE ARE THESE WORDS COMING FROM?

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He who knows the source of the words, come and tell now,

where these words are coming from.

They who does not understand the source of words,
Misconceive that it is me where these words are coming from.

The words turn worry into joy,

The words turn familiar into unfamiliar.

It is the words where everybody's,

Pain and glory come from.

Not black and white, not the literacy
Not this walking creature

But the voice of The Creator

Is where the words are coming from.

I have neither read the first letter of alphabet

Nor are my sayings from another letter.

One hundred thousand soothsayers don't know

That which star my fortune is coming from.

Shining on us is not from The Moon.

The Lover is not from that kind.
It is not this house but the ocean,

Where my daily bread is coming from.

We are a means there.
What else are we able to do?
Haqq commands to the heart,

It is where my sayings are coming from.

Yunus laments because of a sorrow.
He is in trouble in his house of pain.
A thousand words of remorse are where

The cure and redemption for this sorrow come from.   

English version by
İsmail Ulusakarya

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