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Darling in the classical Turkish poetry based on love
is one of the indispensable characters of this poem as an entity in the central
position. Another important character is the lover character represented by the
poet. In poems, especially in the odes and love masnavis, the characteristics
of the darling have been explained due to the influence of some factors such as
the ability, imagination, environment, knowledge, life experience and belief of
the poet. Religion is one of the important sources that the poet benefited from
when telling the darling. The poet, who was already a Muslim, used many
concepts, topics and themes in his poetry, and he enriched and adorned his
poetry by using religious elements. Hence, one of these concepts has been the
alms. The darling who is rich in beauty and the sultan of the city of perfection
has been introduced by the lover as someone in debt who needs to pay the alms
due to this beauty treasure. In this respect, the lover, at every opportunity,
demanded the alms from the darling for her perfection. Therefore, in this
study, the way the lover who demands the alms for the beauty of the darling
approached to the topic was emphasized, and it was intended to reveal the meanings
and associations of a religious term in poetry language with the help of the
sample poems chosen among the scanned divan poems. In this study which is
carried out using the explanations methods based on the meaning, it has been
concluded that the poets who engaged the beauty elements with the alms revived
many elements about the alms, and that they glorified the darling who they introduced
as the giver.