Author(s): Sabri YILMAZ Ramazan ÃALKAN
In this article, perception of predestination reflected to folk songs which describe Anatolian people’s emotions and thoughts, will be tried to be analyzed. Humankind expressed their emotions and thoughts which caused his happiness or unhappiness, in various ways. Folk songs are among the most important sources which reflect Anatolian people’s emotions, thoughts and beliefs. Anatolian people reflected their loves, sorrows, seperations, sadness and agonizing situations they face lifelong and their thought regarding the causes of them, to the folk songs they composed; they mostly overlooked their wills regarding making sense of the events they encounter and their positions against the events in question and they were in tendency to load the responsibility to destiny. Because Anatolian people is a society who have a religious and cultural background and whose detection of rules drawing of frame date back to hijri first century. The fatalist mentality, which was abolished by the main principles of Qur’an and practice of the Prophet Muhammed, was resurrected and was turned into a belief priciple through oppression by the Emevis who gained dominance over Muslims from the half of hijri first century. Thus, people falled back upon the belief of destiny instead of taking responsibility against negative events they encounter which are the results of their own omission and the situations they had difficulty in overcoming. This fact was reflected to Anatolian folk songs which are a means of expression of beliefs and thoughts of Muslim-Turkish society who has a very long history.
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