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Works written for the purpose of directing people to the righteousness and goodness and raising moral people and making them beneficial for society are called advice-epistles (nasihat-name). "Advice-epistle", which is formed by the combination of the word "nasihat", which means “recommendation, advice and preach", derived from the Arabic root "nasaha"; and "name", which means "book, letter, epistle" in Persian, is the general name of religious moral works. Throughout the history, various actions have been done in order to prevent people from the attitudes and behaviours considered to be wrong. There is no doubt that the most common of these actions is the understanding of giving recommendation and advise. Therefore, advices necessary today, as in the past, so as to maintain the social order. For this reason, community leaders, clergymen, and scholars often gave advice to the communities under their influence. These works, written to be able to prevent people from doing bad actions and lead them to the good and canonical behaviours and halal path have a wide range of topics. The advice epistles, which are also known by names such as pend-nâme and enderz-nâme, which mean “advice-epistle”, were generally written in mathnawi verse form. There are great number of poetry and prose examples of this genre in Islamic literature. In Turkish literature, such works emerged when the Turks accepted Islam. After this period, works in the type of advice-epistle (pend-name) continued with different examples until the period of Republic Turkey. Yusuf Khass Hâjib's Kutadgu Bilig and Edip Ahmed's Atabat al-Haqayik are the first examples of this genre in Turkish-Islamic Literature. In the Anatolian geography, the first works in the type of advice-epistle started to be given in the 13th century. The Charh-name of Ahmet Fakih, the Garİb-name of Ashık Pasha and the Risâletu'n-Nushiyyah of Yunus Emre are the basic examples of this genre. One of the recently written advice-epistles belongs to Kilisli Hâmî, who lived between the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. The poet, whose father’s name is Abdunnâfî Ephendi, was born in Kilis. Kilisli Hâmî started his madrasa education in Kilis; and then went to Aleppo for a while to continue his education. Hâmî, who made his living by farming, passed away in 1957. His elder brother, Kilisli Lutfullah Hâzım, a member of Saghirzâde family, is also a poet like him. Influenced by the poets of Divan Literature in the South-eastern Anatolia, from his poems, the poet was observed to be under the effects of Nâbî and Sunbulzâde Vahbî. The poet, who wrote poems in line with Divan Literature, has a little divan. Apart from his little divan, the poet has also "Nasihat-nâme" (Advice-Epistle), which we have discovered as an independent work, consisting of six leaves. Written in mathnawi form, the work consists of 82 couplets. The work is registered in Ankara National Library Manuscripts Collection with the archive number 06 Mil Yz A 7729. The date 1347/1931 is written in the copy of the work. Although the main purposes of advice-epistles are to counsel and advise to the target readers, they also have variations in subjects within themselves. One of these issues is the advice of fathers to their children. The most well-known works written on this issue are 17th century Divan poet Nâbî's work called “Hayriyye” and 18th century Divan poet Sunbulzâde Vehbî's work named “Lutfiyye”. The common feature of these works, written in the form of mathnawi, is that both contain the advice of the poet fathers to their children. Another advice-epistle written by a father to his child is the one written by Kilisli Hâmî in the early 20th century. Like the two abovementioned poets, Kilisli Hâmî gives some advice to young people through his son. In this study, the Advice-epistle of Kilisli Hâmî, the only copy of which was found, will be focused on. Initially, the information about the life of the poet will be submitted, and then the form and content traits of the work will be emphasized. The work will be compared with Hayriyye and Lutfiyye mathnawis, since the poet both wrote this work in order to advise to his son and also he was influenced by the advice given by Nâbî and Sunbulzâde. In the last section, the Nasihat-nâme will be given with the transcription.

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