Abstract:

The Sufi movement started with Ahmed-i Yesevî in Central Asia and spread to Haci Bektash Veli, Yunus Emre, etc. in Anatolia. Sustained by the Mystics. Ahmed-i Yesevî's understanding of "Four Doors and Forty Positions" has been a source for many Sufi people. The four doors and forty positions are the material and spiritual stages that the disciple will pass through. A person who strives to be a perfect human being aims to reach Allah by passing the four doors and forty positions. Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, one of the important figures of religious-mystical Turkish literature in Anatolia and accepted as the founder of Bektashism, adopted the understanding of four doors and forty positions in her work called Makalât, with the influence of Ahmed-i Yesevî. Within the framework of this understanding, he made various suggestions. This understanding has continued by being transferred from generation to generation for centuries and has preserved its actuality. In the Dîvân of Kadîmî Baba, a Bektashi father who lived in the 20th century, there are four doors and forty positions with the influence of Haci Bektash Veli. In our study, the understanding of four doors and forty positions in the Divan of Kadîmî Baba, a Bektashi father living in the 20th century, was tried to be determined. The detected examples in question were discussed in detail and tried to be examined.

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