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| Hi everybody, my name is Seda. |
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| Nasılsınız? Her şey yolunda mı? |
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| Today we will talk about funeral culture in Turkey and sympathy messages in Turkish. |
| I know I know it's not a fun subject but it's good to know every part of life in another culture. |
| Before I start I should explain something. |
| Turkey is a secular country which means state of Turkey doesn't have a preferred religion. |
| However since most of the Turkish people Turkish population is Muslim here I will |
| explain how Muslim funerals look like. There are Jewish and Christian populations as well |
| and normally every citizen gets registered by his or her parents religion in official records |
| and of course after 18 years they can change it but the record is kept to know how |
| how to deal with funerals since everybody is buried according to his her religion but |
| some things are not possible even if you want to for example there is no place to get cremated |
| so you have to be buried so as I said before today I will talk about Muslim traditions |
| around funerals and let's start the corpse which is naaş in Turkish is brought to the mosque after |
| you know passing away and the imam and a close relative washes the body in the gusülhane |
| a place dedicated for this job and the body is wrapped with a white sheet a shroud called kefen |
| and put in a coffin to carry it outside of the mosque and the plate it is placed on a special |
| stone for this called musalla taşı and then special namaz is performed for the deceased |
| called cenaze namazı funeral namaz and after this the deceased is taken to a cemetery to be buried there |
| while cemetery workers and relatives are digging the ground imam prays and when the ground is |
| ready the deceased is taking out of the coffin and buried with that shroud only Muslims are not |
| buried in coffins it is expected to throw some soil on the deceased's body as a respect while saying |
| a prayer of fatiha and after this everyone is gathered at the house of the deceased |
| generally the neighbors the close friends and relatives cook for the people who are coming to |
| pay their respect and a plain Turkish coffee is served to everyone coming from the cemetery |
| generally mirrors are clothed with a sheet or something and meals are served prayers are said |
| and there is also a special dessert served during the morning process which is this ceremony which |
| is called irmik helvası and for example there's a saying helvasını yemek it literally means to eat |
| his her helva but it suggests that the helva is served at the person's funeral so the person is dead |
| so for seven days people come to the funeral house to support the family and say prayers |
| for the seven days food is served to everyone who comes generally people bring food as well and |
| the seventh and the 40th days are important and there are special prayers for these days |
| first week is constantly crowded but after that life gets gets back to normal the 40th day of the |
| deceased is again important and people are gathered again to pray and eat together and after that if |
| the family wants they gather every year on the day of the death to say a prayer and remember the |
| deceased so when you learn about someone passed away what can you say you can say |
| “başınız sağolsun” |
| literally it means “let your head get well” but normally it means “my condolences” |
| Sometimes, if the person who passed away is old, people say |
| “Allah sıralı ölüm versin.” |
| It means “May Allah give you an orderly death” It may sound weird but it means that, “I hope young people in your life live long lives” |
| Also “nur içinde yatsın” is very common to say. It means “May the deceased lay in lights” |
| “Allah rahmet eylesin” is another one. It means: |
| “May Allah give grace.” |
| As you may know, there are different sects of Islam. One of the sects in Turkey is “Alevi”. |
| Some of their sayings are little different than Sunni sect I have mentioned so far. |
| For example: |
| They say “Hakka yürüdü.” |
| Meaning “She/he walked to Allah”. |
| Another one is |
| ''Devr-i daim olsun'' |
| ''Let his/her cycle be forever’’ |
| “Menzili mübarek olsun.” |
| "Let his/her stop be blessed.” |
| so there are of course a lot of ways to |
| give your condolences but these are the main ones and I hope these will be enough and you |
| these will be enough and you don't have to use them sorry for the heavy subject but |
| that's what we have to we had to talk about today so I hope you enjoy the |
| information let me put it that way I will see you next time Hoşçakalın görüşürüz…. |
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