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TRANSLATION OF THE CHAT ON BERAT NIGHT (26 JULY 2010)
(Berat night: the Night of Pardon, the night between the 14th and the 15th days of the month Sha'ban.)

[Texts written between square brackets and some punctuation are added for the sake of making the meaning clearer.]

BISMILLAHIRAHMANIRAHIM [IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST MERCIFUL, THE MOST COMPASSIONATE]

We walk in every area,
We know the one who knows his/her [? HIS ?] Reality.
We love every order [orderliness] that
My Rab created/creates.
HIS Name [is present] in our tongue,
HIS deep love [our deep love for HIM] [is present] in our heart,
HIS love is present in our every hal.
Mountains, stones,
Plains, trees,
Seas, fish, birds
Are under HIS protection.
Some humans say:
Me, I protect every thing,
Me, I know every name.
If you are from the ones who protect,
If you are from the ones who know,
It is so beautiful;
Yet, all of these
Are very special for human.

Mevlana said:
If you enter the vineyard of love,
If you see that its grapes ripen,
Further than that, if you put [the grapes] on the tray and eat,
It is the cure of the cure,
It is the immortality of the body.

Yunus Emre said:
If I entered HIS vineyard
And if I came to the orchard and gathered the melon, the water melon,
You can not reach from me to Me,
You can not come together with me at candle [night]. [candle night=one of the five Islamic holy nights when the minarets are illuminated]

Hadji Bektas said:
You take among yourselves as well as
You give among yourselves as well as
You also chat as you wish
At the table of close friend.

Hadji Bayram said:
We gave the hand to humans,
We took the word from the tongues,
We found HIS Reality in The Essence.
How beautiful is what you say,
How beautiful is what you eat,
How beautiful is what you present.

Hodja Ahmet Yesevi
Is remedy to tongues,
Finds cure for every trouble.
He pleads for all universe
At the door of The Darling,
In the building of HIS Representative.
He says:
Cures, delights, remedies for troubles;
Let [all troubles] always find end. [let all troubles end]
Let HIS saints be in the same condition as all of them.

Meryem [Virgin Mary] and Fatima
Came hand in hand,
They pleaded all together.
They wanted Fatiha [Fatiha=the opening chapter of the Koran]
From you, from all of you.

Let my Lofty Rab protect all of us
From the mistakes that we make knowingly [or] unknowingly.
Let HIM make HIS Blessing rain
Upon us, upon all of us.
That Blessing
Cleans, purifies all of us,
[that Blessing] Makes our pleadings that are for all [humans], reach their exact location,
[that Blessing] Makes humans come together with HIS Blessing.
That "coming together"
Is the wish of each one of us,
Is the wish of each one of you.
My Lofty Rab,
Accept the pleadings of all of us.
My Lofty Rab,
Protect our homeland, our people with Your Blessing,
Let Your Blessing wrap the humans of our whole homeland.
Let the ones who work to put us separately from YOU [let the ones who try to separate us from YOU]
Return to their own surroundings.
We exist with us,
We exist with Your Representative Hazrat Mohammad.
We are humans as YOU wish,
We work to be Your human.
With our humanity, we reach our Reality,
And in our last breath,
We come together with YOU, my Rab.
Only at that time,
We make our hopes live
While knowing our own Reality,
While giving to all universe.
Ya Rabbi,
Do not put us, our homeland, our people separately from YOU, my Rab.

Let selam [peace/greeting] be, let selam be, let selam be.

Allahu Ekber [Allah is The Greatest], Allahu Ekber, Allahu Ekber.

Lailaheillallah Muhammeden Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped; we wish to YOU and to Your Representative Mohammad.]


LOVE, SEE & SHARE:

Love all HIS creations;
See HIM in all of HIS creations;
Share HIS Meaning.

© Sabahat Akþiray (Garib)
Translated by Tamer Özel