Tacettin Fidan

Cömertliğe dair

Cömertliktir bunun esas ispatı

Araç olsa harca hadi borcuna!

Kendiliğinden şen şakrak doğanı

Kimler katamazmış masraf suçuna?

Belki pay kendine kalmaz mirası

Vakit vaadi var insana kira

Samimiyse kulun övgüsü farzı

Zaman veriyorsa al git bedava

Madem ki böyleymiş alın yazısı

Hamle almaz zaman pinti zamana

Kula bulaşmışsa servet israfı

Kârsız kalır mahşer vakti mezarda

Yekününe kûsur ise sevabı

İzzet ve lezzeti ne ki günaha

Vakit varken dolaş kendi malını

Hediye sensin sen, seni kandırma

İnşallah büyüktür sevap hesabın

Göç edince artık kalsın çağrıya

Türbelensin sende güzellik sırrı

Günah vasiyettir köle kullara

- İngilizce / English -

ABOUT GENEROSITY

I wonder:

Basis for belief, value and philosophy of life are built on generosity

Were generosity a means to an end, should it be spent on prophesy?

Something done naturally, on a whim,

by the freeborn without any prior thought or planning

Should it not be free of guilt when its wed to mindful spending?

Maybe a person will not get a good share of what is here on earth as a birthright

For the promise of time is leased to all people, but it is to everyone finite

The act of expressing approval, admiration, or gratitude

towards someone who is fervent, this is truly a sincere attitude

If your time allows it in this life, rather easily

And you can have it without any strings attached, freely

Take it, for it was meant for you, and now it maybe... your true destiny!

You can't be stingy with what is your time, that is allotted

Wasted is your wealth if, even though you're dedicated

you are not fêted or spotted

Perhaps, you are with an infamous greedy clime infected

The kind that to others, once you had expertly plotted!

It will remain unprofitable in the grave

and at the time of judgement

If there is a defect in the bounty as a whole, like the one that you gave

Rave, for it will need some adjustment

Honor and pleasure won't matter to your immoral shrine

Go with what is good and proper while you have a lease on mortal time

You are the gift of time to time, don't fool yourself

I hope your good deed is great by itself and in itself, my dear good elf!

When you migrate to the other world, do ask, 'will your good deeds here remain?'

May you be ferried with all the secrets of such a large and beautiful flat plane

But, without the sins bequeathed that are the damnation of the willful who might instead reign!