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Nasreddin Hodja stories are universal because they describe human nature and weaknesses of mankind everywhere. That is why 1996 has been proclaimed Nasreddin Hodja Year by UNESCO.
The incidents and characters in these stories illustrate the comic, eccentric and inconsistent aspects of human beings through Nasreddin Hodja’s shrewd observations. Nasreddin Hodja was a cleric during Seljuk times. He was born in 1208 in Hortu village near Sivrihisar in Central Anatolia. As a young boy he must have enjoyed a free country childhood and lived in one of the cottages with adobe walls and flat baked earth roofs, typical of this region. He received his early education from his father, the village imam, and went on to study at the medrese.
After working as a village imam for some years, he moved in 1237 to the town of Aksehir. There he is known to have studied under such notable scholars of the time as seyid Mahmud Hayrani and Seyid Haci Ibrahim. Later he became a professor at the medrese in Aksehir and served as kadi. Nasreddin Hodja died in 1284 at the age of 76, and was buried in Aksehir in a tomb which symbolizes the absurdity in life which he had loved to expose while alive. A door with a great lock stands by the tomb, but there are no walls for a door.
Immortalised by his humorous and thought provoking words and actions, Nasreddin Hodja was a man of the people who percieved the world through their eyes.
This won him a deep love which has lasted for centuries. In the pessimistic and strife-torn world of the Middle Ages, Nasreddin Hodja radiated optimism. Yet this certainly did not prevent him from attacking injustice with wounding words. In his accounts he always seeks a peaceful way to get his message across, getting the better of his antagonists without argument or fight.
He loved life, and despite being a man of religion disliked speaking of death. When he was asked about where the mourrners should stand when carrying the coffin at a funeral, he retorted, “As long as you are not the one inside it doesn’t matter a jot!”
Nasreddin Hodja never let trivial matters worry him. When a kite seized the liver he was carrying home for supper, he shouted “You’re wasting your time, I’ve got the recipe!” His affection extended to animals, and in many anecdotes we find him talking to his donkey like a friend.
Among the things which annoy Nasreddin Hodja most are meanness, bigotry, injustice, corrupt judges, insolence and sycophancy.
One day a man stopped him and said, “Hodja, a roasted stuffed turkey just went past.” Nasreddin Hodja replied, “What has that got to do with me?” “But it went to your house”, said the man. “What has that got to do with you?” retorted Nasreddin Hodja. His optimism is illustrated by one of his most famous stories. One day a man found him pouring the remains of his yogurt into Aksehir Lake. “Hodja, what are you doing?” the asked. “I am turning the lake into yogurt,” he replied. When the laughed at him, he said, “But you never know perhaps it might.” This endorsement of hope against all odds has remained valid in every era.
Another trait of Nasreddin Hodja is his courage. This is shown best in the stories about him and Timur, the feared Mongol ruler who in fact was not a contemporary of Nasreddin Hodja at all, but overran Ottoman Turkey in 1402. Although many of the Nasreddin Hodja stories are not those told during his lifetime, but were invented and changed over succeeding centuries, they represent the humanism and down to earth insight of the ordinary man which marked Nasreddin Hodja while he lived.
Source Document: SKYLIFE (Turkish Airlines Publication).
© Written by Ismail Sivri
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