MFÖ - Buselik Makamına

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söz - müzik: Mazhar Alanson
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Buselik Makamına

leyladan geçme falslındayım
mevlayı bulma yollarında
majörler tükendi minörlere yolculuk
buselik makamına

aşk için söylenen her söze kandım
pervane misali ateşe yandım
gördüğüm her dilber ateştir bana
mecazi aşka inandım güneşli havalarda

buselik makamına


to the makam buselik

i'm in the episode of transcending leyla
on the roads to find the lord
the majors were used up, journey to the minors
to the makam buselik

i believed every word said about love
i burned in fire like a moth
every beautiful woman i see is a fire to me
i believed in metaphorical love on sunny days

to the makam buselik

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metaphorical love vs. true love: according to the sufi tradition, true love is love for god and metaphorical love is love for all else. the link between the two is that metaphorical love is a chapter in love book that leads to the final chapter: true love. it works something like this: you love someone for one or more attributes, say beauty. then you look for perfect beauty along with other perfect attributes, say temperament. surely you can't find all in one. you then gradually begin to channel your feelings into an abstract ideal. it's pure and perfect just because it's so defined. if you're a monotheist, you'll call the ideal god, else you'll distribute the attributes among gods and goddesses, each one being perfect in some attribute. listen to bonnie tyler describing her hero in holding out for a hero. do you think she could find one?

some sufis see metaphorical love as the only way to attain true love. legend has it that someone comes to a dervish lodge and asks for permission to join. have you ever loved someone? they ask. no, says he. go, fall in love, then return, they say.

others maintain that it's very hard for metaphorical love to turn into true love since it can easily be lured by carnal love, turning one into a don juan. they replace it with compassion, for it's gratis.

leyladan geçmek transcending leyla is an allusion to the layla and majnun love legend. according to the fuzuli version of the story, someday layla finds majnun in the desert but he doesn't know her and asks, layla is in me, who are you? this way, the story tries to give an example of how to go beyond metaphorical love to true love.