6th wonder

BRAINSTORMINGStudents did

brainstorming and theywrote important vocations

for a region.

Important jobs:

Firefighters, police, soldiers, teachers,

local governors, municipality and so

on. (according tobrainstorming

activity)

List of Important

jobs.

Studentsprepared

posters aboutimportant

people of a region.

Students wrote poems aboutimportant people.

POEMS ABOUT FIREFIGHTERS

STUDENT WORK

BOARD MATERIALS

AZİZ MAHMUD HUDAYI

• He was one of sufi dervishes living in OttomanPeriod. He was born in our town and thenmoved to İstanbul to go on his education.

• He wrote books and he is famous for his goodmorals.

Aziz Mahmud Hudayi (1541–1628), (b. Şereflikoçhisar, d. Üsküdar), isamongst the most famous sufi ermiş (muslim saint) of theOttomanEmpire. He was born in Şereflikoçhisar, and he completed his studiesin a medrese in Istanbul. He was the Sheikh of Sultan Ahmed I whoconstructed the famous Blue Mosque and especially gained therespect of Sultan Murat III. He read the first Friday prayer in thisMosque on its opening. The Sufi order Jelveti was founded by theTurkish saint Aziz Mahmud Hudayi.

Aziz Mahmud Hudayi served as Qadi in Edirne, Egypt, Sham (Syria),and Bursa. He was a murid and khalifah of Üftade Hazretleri. Hewrote about thirty works, seven of which are in Turkish.

His dua, "Those who visit us when we are alive, and those who visitour grave after our death and read the Fatiha when passing by ourtomb are ours. May those who love us not drown at sea, may theynot suffer poverty in their old age, may they not pass away withoutsaving their faith," has prompted many sailors of the OttomanEmpire to visit his grave before going out to sea.

Aziz Mahmud Hudayi died in Üsküdar, Istanbul and is buried next tohis mosque.

• In our town, there is a school which takes itsname from our sufi dervish, Aziz MahmudHudayi. The school has a Islamic educationcurriculum.

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