MEVLÂNA'DA AŞK FELSEFESİ.

This article aims to focus on the path and methods that Mevlâna followed in reaching God in the context of the philosophy of love. Mevlâna, who is seen to act within the human context to reach God, offers us a new language, a new path and a new method with his philosophy of love. Mevlâna, who says that people can reach God through isolation and self-discipline, describes this fighting process with the metaphor of "the cauldron of love." A person who disciplines and matures his/her soul by getting rid of all undesirable desires and especially worldly ambitions in the cauldron of love transforms his/her heart into an environment where God can be manifested. According to Rumi, man's/woman's fight is within himself/herself. This fight is with a man's/woman's own soul. In order for God to settle in his/her heart, a person must get rid of the distinction between you and me. When man gets rid of his/her self, he/she reaches the truth of things and therefore the divine truth by reaching God. In this regard, Mevlâna's works, which talk about the need for people to develop themselves both physically and spiritually and explain in a didactic manner how to achieve this, have been mind-opening in explaining the subject. After all, according to Mevlâna, what makes a person human is the ability to think and question the things, beings and life that happen around him/her, especially himself/herself and his/her own actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]