''Namaz iyidir. Fakat her gün beşer defa kılmak usanç veriyor'' (Altyazılı)
İ'lây-ı Kelimetullah
[{'start': '0.240', 'end': '3.995', 'text': 'One time, a great man (in age) (in physical appearance) (in rank) said to me:'}, {'start': '3.995', 'end': '11.159', 'text': '"Prayer is good. But performing it five times every day is a lot. It becomes tiresome because it never ends."'}, {'start': '11.159', 'end': '17.574', 'text': "After a long time had passed after that person's words, I listened to my soul.  I heard him say the same words."}, {'start': '17.574', 'end': '23.361', 'text': 'Then I understood: That person had said those words as if on behalf of all evil-commanding souls,'}, {'start': '23.361', 'end': '29.592', 'text': 'or he had been made to say them.  Then I also said: Since my soul commands evil, one who does'}, {'start': '29.592', 'end': '35.020', 'text': 'not correct himself cannot correct others.  So, I start with my soul.'}, {'start': '35.020', 'end': '38.563', 'text': 'Oh my wretched (unlucky) soul!  Is your life eternal?   Do you'}, {'start': '38.563', 'end': '44.081', 'text': 'have any definite proof that you will stay until next year, or maybe until tomorrow?  It is the imaginary eternity that'}, {'start': '44.081', 'end': '49.239', 'text': 'makes you weary.  (to think that you will live forever) For the sake of pleasure,'}, {'start': '49.239', 'end': '55.179', 'text': 'you act coy as if you will stay in the eternal world.  If you understood that your life is short and that it passes in vain;'}, {'start': '55.179', 'end': '59.920', 'text': 'Surely, spending one hour out of twenty-four (24 hours) on'}, {'start': '59.920', 'end': '65.040', 'text': 'a beautiful, pleasant, comfortable and merciful service (prayer) which will be the means to the happiness of a truly eternal life will, far'}, {'start': '65.040', 'end': '70.335', 'text': 'from becoming bored, actually cause serious longing and a pleasant pleasure.'}, {'start': '70.335', 'end': '76.080', 'text': 'Oh my greedy (throaty) soul!  Do you eat bread, drink water, and breathe air every day'}, {'start': '76.080', 'end': '81.720', 'text': '?  do they bore you?  Since he does not give it;  Because the need'}, {'start': '81.720', 'end': '86.191', 'text': 'repeats itself, you do not become bored but rather take pleasure in it.  In which case, prayer, which attracts and draws the breeze of my dominical subtle faculties (the most subtle senses of the heart), which'}, {'start': '86.191', 'end': '91.771', 'text': "are the nourishment of my heart, the life water of my spirit, and your (my soul's) friends in my"}, {'start': '91.771', 'end': '95.596', 'text': 'physical home,'}, {'start': '95.596', 'end': '102.840', 'text': 'should not weary you.  Yes, the nourishment and strength of a heart that is subject to and afflicted with endless sorrows and pains, and'}, {'start': '102.840', 'end': '108.860', 'text': 'captivated by endless pleasures and hopes and filled with love, can be obtained by'}, {'start': '108.860', 'end': '114.215', 'text': 'knocking with supplication on the door of an All-Compassionate and Munificent One who has power over all things.'}, {'start': '114.215', 'end': '119.799', 'text': 'Yes, the water of life of a soul that is departing with full speed in this transient world, raising the cry of separation, and is connected'}, {'start': '119.799', 'end': '124.725', 'text': 'with most beings, can be drunk by turning towards the'}, {'start': '124.725', 'end': '129.339', 'text': 'fountain of mercy of an Eternal Beloved (of the Eternal God)'}, {'start': '129.339', 'end': '136.857', 'text': 'through prayer, in place of everything.  Yes, a human secret, a conscious being, a dominical subtle faculty, a human secret that is full of light, who by nature desires eternity and was created (created) for eternity and is the'}, {'start': '136.857', 'end': '139.936', 'text': 'mirror of an eternal and everlasting Being (God, whose existence has no beginning or end'}, {'start': '139.936', 'end': '146.104', 'text': '), and who is infinitely delicate and beautiful, is certainly in great need of taking a breath in'}, {'start': '146.104', 'end': '149.920', 'text': 'these gloomy,'}, {'start': '149.920', 'end': '156.440', 'text': 'oppressive and troublesome, temporary, dark and suffocating worldly circumstances,'}, {'start': '156.440', 'end': '162.266', 'text': 'and can only breathe through the window of prayer.'}, {'start': '162.266', 'end': '168.459', 'text': 'Oh my impatient soul!  Is it possible to think of the burden of worship, the difficulty of prayer,'}, {'start': '168.459', 'end': '172.400', 'text': 'and the hardship of calamity in the past and to suffer today?  Is it wise to think about the'}, {'start': '172.400', 'end': '177.680', 'text': 'duty of worship, the prayer service and the pain of calamity in the coming days and to be'}, {'start': '177.680', 'end': '183.879', 'text': 'impatient today?  This impatience is'}, {'start': '183.879', 'end': '189.280', 'text': "like that of a foolish commander who: The enemy's right flank force has"}, {'start': '189.280', 'end': '195.720', 'text': 'joined the force on his right, and although he has a fresh force, he holds back,'}, {'start': '195.720', 'end': '201.000', 'text': 'sends a significant force to the right flank, and weakens the centre.'}, {'start': '201.000', 'end': '206.296', 'text': 'Also, while there are no enemy soldiers on the left flank and before they arrive, he sends a large force and'}, {'start': '206.296', 'end': '213.395', 'text': 'gives the order, “Fire,” and causes the center to lose all its strength. The enemy understands what is happening, attacks the center, and'}, {'start': '213.395', 'end': '218.564', 'text': 'destroys it. Yes, you are like that. Because the hardship of the past days has'}, {'start': '218.564', 'end': '225.596', 'text': 'become a mercy today. Its pain has gone, its pleasure remains. The burden and difficulty have joined the miracle (goodness); (participation)'}, {'start': '225.596', 'end': '230.915', 'text': 'and difficulty have been transformed into reward. (Transformed). In that case, it is necessary not to get tired of it, but'}, {'start': '230.915', 'end': '237.000', 'text': 'rather to take a new enthusiasm, a fresh pleasure, and a serious effort to continue.'}, {'start': '237.000', 'end': '242.027', 'text': 'As for the days to come, since they have not come, to think about them now and become weary and become weary is just'}, {'start': '242.027', 'end': '248.586', 'text': 'like thinking about them today with hunger and thirst, and shouting and screaming.  (is madness)'}, {'start': '248.586', 'end': '253.553', 'text': 'Here, my impatient soul! You are charged with three kinds of patience.'}, {'start': '253.553', 'end': '258.722', 'text': 'One is patience above obedience. One is patience in avoiding sin.'}, {'start': '258.722', 'end': '266.320', 'text': 'The other is patience in the face of calamity. If you do not squander the power of patience that Almighty God has given you on the wrong path, it'}, {'start': '266.320', 'end': '270.900', 'text': 'will be sufficient for every difficulty and calamity;  and hold on to that strength.'}]