Advice in the XVI. century's divan literature

In this study, thirteen of the divans of the XVI. Century were selected and the content of advice was examinated. Examined divans; it belongs to Âhî, Hayretî, Usûlî, Zâtî, Fuzûlî, Hayâlî, Muhibbî, Emrî, Taşlıcalı Yahyâ Bey, Murâdî, Nev'î, Bâkî ve Bağdatlı Rûhî. Advices were evaluated under three main headings; advive on religious and mystical issues, on general morality and on social life. It has been determined that the poets give more advice on mystical issues-sufism. It has been seen that the poets have a common sense of the transience of the world, the essence of the worlds is love, doing good and avoiding evil will make people happy in both worlds. The poets, who gave advice on the importance of repentance, dhikr and prayer, gave suggestions and advice to help the reader gain traits such as patience, gratitude, contentment and fidelity. The content of advice in divans; it appears in two forms, as verses, all of which contain advice, and as one or more couplets that give advice interspersed with a verse. Although it differs according to the divans, it has been determined that the advices at the couplet level are more complete. Most of the advice at the couplet level takes place in Muhibbî's Divan. Taşlıcalı Yahyâ Bey's Divan also draes attention with the intensity of its advice content. Key words: XVI. Century, Divan poems, Advice, Sufism.