The disciple-shaykh relationship in the Divan of Salih Baba

The roots of Sufistic life consist of events that take place between Muhammad and his companions. So much so that the Prophet, who lived in the light of the Qur'an, tried to show the depths of religious life to his companions as much as he could. As a result, the first roots of the disciple-shaykh relationship appeared between the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. The generations that came after the Muhammad and his companions adopted this period, which they considered as golden age. Sufis, who especially had the desire to live religious life deeply, proceeded in the light of the Holy Quran and the prophets of the Qur'an and emerged as the first term ascetics. Later on, Sufi thought continued systematically under the leadership of lodges and religious orders. Spiritual devotion, blow and feelings of love between the disciple and the shaykh have emerged as a succession in some disciples. They treated these varieties as poems using nicknames. Salih Baba, who is the subject of our thesis, shows himself as the product of this variant. We also tried to examine the principles and procedures between the disciple and shaykh in the work of Salih Baba's Rabita-i Nakşi Hayâlî, who is a member of the Naqshbandi order. In this thesis study, we firstly examined the concepts related to dervish lodge, cult, disciple, and shaykh. After giving information about these, we tried to explain the reflections of Divan of Salih Baba. Keywords: Salih Baba, Disciple, Shaykh, The Disciple-Shaykh Relationship, Nexus, Rabıta-i Nakşî Hayâlî