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SÜLEYMAN ÇELEBİ · VESÎLETÜ’N-NECÂT

Mevlid-i Şerif

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Allah adın zikr idelim evvela

Selected couplets from Vesîletü’n-Necât · Süleyman Çelebi

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  1. 01

    Allah adın zikr idelim evvelaVacib oldur cümle işde her kula

  2. 02

    Allah adın her kim ol evvel anaHer işi âsan ider Allah ana

  3. 03

    Allah adı olsa her işin önüHergiz ebter olmaya anın sonu

  4. 04

    Bir kez Allah dese aşkile lisanDökülür cümle günah misli hazan

  5. 05

    İsm-i pâkin pâk olur zikreyleyenHer murada erişir Allah diyen

  6. 06

    Aşk ile gel imdi Allah diyelimDerd ile göz yaş ile ah edelim

  7. 07

    Birdir ol birliğine şek yokdururGerçi yanlış söyleyenler çokdurur

  8. 08

    Cümle alem yoğiken ol var idiYaradılmıştan gani cebbar idi

  9. 09

    Var iken ol yok idi ins-ü melekArş-ü ferş-ü ay-ü gün hem nüh felek

  10. 10

    Sun´ile bunları ol var eylediBirliğine cümle ikrar eyledi

  11. 11

    Kudretin izhar edip hem ol celilBirliğine bunları kıldı delil

  12. 12

    Ol dedi bir kerre var oldu cihanOlma derse mahvolur ol dem heman

  13. 13

    Bari ne hacet kılavuz sözü çokBirdir Allah andan artık ilah yok

  14. 14

    Haşredek ger denilirse bu kelamNice haşrola bu olmaya temam

  15. 15

    Pes Muhammeddir bu varliğa sebebSıdkile anın rızasın kıl taleb

  16. 16

    Ger dilersiz bulasız oddan necatAşkile derdile edin es-salat

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ABOUT THE WORK

A poem, a long tradition.

Written by Süleyman Çelebi in Bursa in 1409, Vesîletü’n-Necât is widely known as the Mevlid. The poem uses the mesnevi form and centres on the birth and life of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Mevlid is a religious and literary work, not a Quranic passage, hadith or translation of either. Manuscripts and reading traditions vary. Everything heard in a ceremony should not automatically be treated as part of one original text.

Historical reference: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi · MEVLİD

Mevlit, mevlüt, mevlid and mevlüd: which text is meant?

Searches for this work may use the spellings mevlit, mevlid, mevlüt and mevlüd. This page concerns Süleyman Çelebi’s Vesîletü’n-Necât, known as the Mevlid-i Şerif. It provides 16 selected opening couplets rather than the complete work.

Is the complete text available here?

No. This page contains an attributed opening selection of 16 couplets. The historical-edition link opens an Ottoman-script copy in a separate reader. This selection is not presented as the complete Mevlid.

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TEXT NOTE

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Text: selected couplets from Süleyman Çelebi’s Vesîletü’n-Necât. Transcription: Wikisource contributors, “Vesilet’ün Necat”, revision 153158, 17 August 2022.

The source page’s CC BY-SA 4.0 notice is retained. Wording is unchanged; lines have been grouped into couplets and navigation numbers added. The selection is offered under the same licence. The original introductory copy on this page is separate from that transcription.

The source is a community transcription marked as needing cleanup and does not identify its underlying printed edition. It is not presented as a corrected, academically verified or complete text.

Sources checked: 10 November 2026. The couplets on the English page remain in their source language; no English verse translation is implied.

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