3.3.

“Beloved’s coming down as a guest” is the Essential Self-Manifestation in the Heart. This indicates that the Sultan establishes himself on the Throne, which is the Heart. In order to be so, the Heart should be emtied of all other than God. The last quatrain of this poem also indicates the same meaning.

6.

This poem was written in the poetical form called tahmis. It is a form in which a poet writes a poem, adding extra lines to another poet’s poem. Here, the italic lines refer to the original lines of the poem by Fuzuli, and others are the extra lines added by Niyazi-i Misri.

10.4.

“Wine within wine within wine” refers to the three levels of understanding: Knowledges to the Certainty of Knowledge, which is the Unification of the Acts; form to the Essence of Certainty, which is the Unification of the Attributes; and, the meaning-reality to the Truth of Certainty, which is the Unification of the Essence.

40.6.

“Mef’ulu mefa’ilun mef’ulu mefa’ilun” denotes the metric structure of the lines of the poem which was written in the metric structure of aruz.

56.5.

The line “shoot not your arrow far away” alludes that the hidden treasure one looks for is not outside, but inside, it being  ‘nearer to one than one’s neck-vein.’ [See Rumi’s Masnavi, Book VI., Story VI., “The Faqir and the Hidden Treasure”]

69.

This poem was written in the poetical form called tahmis. It is a form in which a poet writes a poem, adding extra lines to another poet’s poem. Here, the italic lines refer to the original lines of the poem by Ibrahim Efendi, and others are the extra lines added by Niyazi-i Misri.