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The stonemason acts in accordance with his promise and he
introduces Hasan Celebi to Hamid Aytac. Celebi immediately
shows his notebook full of pencil writings. Hamid Hodja looks
at the notebook again and again…Celebi tells about the moment
like he is actually living it: “Hamid Hodja looked at my
writings and said ‘This cannot be done that way.’ He made
his pencil thinner like a hair and wrote a jim 5 naskh. Even
today I feel bad because I have lost the paper and I had just a
sample.” In the end, Hamit Hodja does not accept Celebi as a
student saying that he is so busy but he does not leave him all
alone and sends him to Halim Ozyazici, one of his students.
The Calligraphy Of Uskudar-Topkapı-Cemberlitas
From Uskudar to Eminonu by ferry, from there to Topkapı
by tram, and then on foot… Maybe Tekirdag bus… Hasan
Celebi takes this route with those ways. Now that he starts
his love of calligraphy with Halim Ozyazıcı, the calligrapher.
After his first lesson, Halim Bey notices his Fa 6 with kasidah
and showing the letter to his friend; “Look at this in his first
lesson, there is a hope for Celebi!” Unfortunately, Halim
Bey dies after a short time like four months.
Yâ Kaviyy, Written in the Jeli Thuluth script
he was a silversmith, Yusuf Efendi lined up the gravestones
on which it was written “Huve’l-Baki, Huve’l-Hayy, Hu…”
Thanks to his curiosity, Hasan Bey looked at the gravestones
as if there had been precious diamonds and this curious
look opened a door for him:
“One day, the stonemason asked me ‘My fellow townsman,
do you need a gravestone’ when I said I was there
because I was interested in writing, trying to do my best, he
smiled and said that ‘There are master calligraphers who
wrote those, they frequently come here. If you come again,
I will introduce you to them.”
Upon this invitation, Celebi did not lose contact with the
man. After a day, he went to the stonemason again. There
comes the arranged time: “At the end of April, on the first
days of May… There are buds on the branches blossoming
slowly… A day after rain… It is possible to see dews on
leaves when sun lights reflect…Mr. Hamid is trying to copy
a writing needled by shaking method over a stone. But the
weather is moist, the stone is moist, the paper is bloated,
the caves are closed. Hodja is spreading dust from the caves
of the paper but the dust does not reach the stone as the
caves are closed. That is the way I know Hamid Hodja.”
In the doctrine of Sufism, there is a pseudonym (veled-i
kalb in turkish) which grows, develops and even dies down
the spiritual way of a person. When Halim Bey died, Hasan
Celebi felt that his veled-i kalb has died, too. After two
months “dizziness”, Celebi goes to Hamid Hodja again: “I
want to go to Hamid Bey but I cannot dare to because he
has not accepted me once. Thanks to the son of Omer Nasuhi,
I have found where Hamid Bey stays and gone to him
with regards. A room in Cemberlitas Rasit Efendi Inn…”
Hasan Celebi tells about his situation to Hamid Hodja
again. Hamid Hodja accepts Celebi as a student saying that
“Halim’s way is our way.” and there starts a complete “calligraphy
sayr-i suluk for Celebi.
Hasan Celebi stays by Hamid Bey for 18 years from 1964
till his death. There happens a strong relation as a masterapprentice
between them. Hamid Bey is not very a talkative
person. Even he does not tell the mistakes that his students
make. Therefore, Celebi writes only “Rabbi Yessir” for two
years. Weeks and months pass but he is not able to pass
second lesson. In the end, he feels desperate that he does
not have a writing skill. He talks about that to his hodja. He
says “I have decided that I do not have the skill. For two
years, I have written ‘Rabbi Yassir and failed.”Upon his
speech, the second lesson is given to Celebi.
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