Din Dili Çerçevesinde Süleyman Çelebi’nin Mevlid’inde Tanrı Kavramının Serüveni

Özet

Öz: Bu çalışmada, Allah ve Tanrı kavramları arasında ideolojik bir zeminde on yıllardır süregelentartışmayı iki aşamada incelemeyi hedefledik. Birinci bölüm kısmen teorik zemini oluştururken,ikinci bölüm ise tartışmanın pratik boyutunu sergilemektedir. Bu maksatla, üzerinde yüzyıllarınmutabakatını taşıyan bir metin olarak Süleyman Çelebi’nin Mevlid’ini merkeze aldık. Birinci bölümde,Çelebi’nin kısa hayat hikâyesinin ardından, Tanrı kavramının Türkçe dini literatürdekiseyri verilmiştir. Bunu takiben felsefi boyutuyla anlam-kavram ilişkisi irdelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Bufelsefi anlamlandırmanın, daha İslami bir kavram gibi görünen Allah terimi üzerinden izdüşümüve onun Mevlid’deki yansımaları ortaya konulmuştur. Anlamlandırma faaliyetinin canlı ve toplumsalbir olgu olduğu gerçeğinden hareketle, modern Türkiye’de dine bakışın hangi kaygılar çerçevesindegeliştiği ikinci bölümün konusudur. Dini reform tartışmaları çerçevesinde yapılanTürkçe ezan ve ibadet denemeleri, Allah ve Tanrı kavramlarını iki ayrı dünyanın karşıt askerlerikonumuna indirgemiştir. Süleyman Çelebi’nin zihninde olmayan bu bölünmenin, modernistpostmodernistküresel kültürün aşamalı-çatışmalı bir biçimde yaygınlaşması ile kısır bir din anlayışınıda beraberinde getirdiği sonucuna varılmıştır.Anahtar Kelimeler: Din Dili, Allah, Tanrı, Süleyman Çelebi, Mevlid, Ezan.The Adventure of the Concept of God in the Mawlid of Suleiman Chalabi within theFramework of Religious LanguageAbstract: In this study, we aimed at examining the argument between the concepts of God andAllah, fought on ideological grounds for decades, in two parts. The first part establishes the theoreticalground, while the second focuses on the practical aspects of the discussion. In this respect,we centred on Suleiman Chalabi’s Mawlid as a text that has achieved a consensus for centuries.In the first part, having given a short biography of Chalabi, the adventure of the concept of Godin Turkish religious literature has been put forward. Then, the relation between meaning andconcept has been examined from a philosophical standpoint. The traces of this conceptualizationhave been followed both in the development of the seemingly specifically Islamic concept of Allahand in Mawlid. Bearing in mind that interpretation is a live social event, the second part dealswith the motives that shaped the treatment of religion in the modern Turkey. The trials of Turkishadhan and worship in the mother tongue, acted out within the discussions of religious reform,have reduced the concepts of Allah and God as two opposite soldiers of two different worlds. Ithas been concluded that this division, which did not exist in the mind of Chalabi, has created acastrated religious understanding coupled with the expansion of the postmodern global culture.Keywords: Religious Language, Allah, God, Suleiman Chalabi, Mawlid, Adhan.

Abstract

In this study, we aimed at examining the argument between the concepts of God and Allah, fought on ideological grounds for decades, in two parts. The first part establishes the theoretical ground, while the second focuses on the practical aspects of the discussion. In this respect, we centred on Suleiman Chalabi’s Mawlid as a text that has achieved a consensus for centuries. In the first part, having given a short biography of Chalabi, the adventure of the concept of God in Turkish religious literature has been put forward. Then, the relation between meaning and concept has been examined from a philosophical standpoint. The traces of this conceptualization have been followed both in the development of the seemingly specifically Islamic concept of Allah and in Mawlid. Bearing in mind that interpretation is a live social event, the second part deals with the motives that shaped the treatment of religion in the modern Turkey. The trials of Turkish adhan and worship in the mother tongue, acted out within the discussions of religious reform, have reduced the concepts of Allah and God as two opposite soldiers of two different worlds. It has been concluded that this division, which did not exist in the mind of Chalabi, has created a castrated religious understanding coupled with the expansion of the postmodern global culture.