Özet:

The notions that Mehmet Akif Ersoy uses in his poems and writings, especially in which he describes social life, have a structure that creates the cause and effect of each other. The fact that all of these notions are handled together shows that the role of humans in social life has a complex structure. Science, which he sees as one of the only true guides in life, and education, which he considers as its application in social life in a sense, has a feature that includes many other concepts both in Mehmet Akif's writings and in his verses. These concepts, which we can call “umbrella concept”, have had a greater impact on human and social life than other elements that keep a society alive, and even become the cornerstone of a nation. The characteristic structure that the nation has lived through from the past and which Akif calls “mâhiyyet-i rûhiyye” will only sustain itself with knowledge. This article explains the way Mehmet Akif dealt with science and education, which is, in his writings, an indispensable element in human and social life, and how broadly he handled it within the framework of the effects it revealed.