THE WITNESS OF TIME
Production : TRT
Year of Production : 2016
Duration : 00.05.00
Number of Episodes : 7 (+ 30 minutes special episode)
Format : Documentary HD, Coloured, Turkish
PRODUCER - DIRECTOR : İsmet YAZICI
WRITER : İsmet YAZICI
ADVISOR AND SOURCE TEXT WRITTER : Ergun KOCABIYIK
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Tevfik ÖBER
CAMERAMAN : Mehdi R. ÖZÇAĞLAYAN
FLYCAM : Erkan ÇELENK
EDITING : Cantekin CANTEZ
ORIGINAL MUSIC : Gökhan KIRDAR
MINIATURE ARTIST : Özcan ÖZCAN
ASSISTANT PRODUCER-DIRECTOR : Evin ASLAN GENÇTÜRK
ART DIRECTOR : Sühendan KUMCU
DUBBING : Şerif EROL
SOUND RECORDING : Hasan BEKTAŞ
SOUND MIX : Zeynep TOPAÇOĞLU
WHIRLING DERVISH : Murat KANBERİ
ENGLISH SUBTITLES : Kıvılcım KARABACAK
In this documentary, based on various notions of Sufism, in 7 episodes, 7 doors guide the THE WITNESS OF TIME: Love, Path, The Perfect Human, Unification, The World, Initiation, The Entity…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about Love… Because Men of God believe that only a heart filled with Love can illuminate the truth. The more one looses their worldly ties, the stronger this ‘light’ will become. For the lover of God, love is the unique power that drives the cosmos. At the end of the path of the truth, taken with love; there is no divisions as ‘you’ and ‘me’. The Lover and the Beloved merges into one another. Everything becomes one in Love. There is no other thing than the love of the Love for the Love. And that is, the ultimate union…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about the Path… Because the pilgrim knows that this immigration from the metaphorical to the actual is experienced in the mind, that this path is the path of nothingness. If they seek to give birth to themselves from themselves, this is the path of abandoning: abandoning the world, abandoning the other world, abandoning the existence and abandoning the act itself… They pass four doors, four ‘bridges’. They break off the ties of their lower soul, quit quitting and pass from this world. There is neither an end nor a stop that exceeds that little distance to reach the truth which is closer to them than their aorta. The traveler knows that this path reaches out to the eternity from the pre-eternity…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about the Perfect Human… Because the Perfect Human was the knower, the essence of the Cosmos. They took God’s aspiration as their own and abandoned all else than God. Therefore, he is trusted with. In Sufism, Human is the apple of the eye of the cosmos. The Perfect Human who actualised all the possibilities of the Creation is the climax of the human who is on their path…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about Unification… Because according to Sufis, every incident and being is a veil that covers the certainty behind it, or a metaphor that implies what is true. And only when the veils are removed and mysteries get revealed, one can witness the continuous entity. To be able to be a witness, one needs to pierce the mountain of ego and reach the valley of one-ness…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about the World… Because according to the Men of God, the world has its gravitational force; those who cannot break off their worldly ties and get involved with all else than God become captivated by this force and cannot escalate to the sky of the truth. The world is only a guesthouse and its only allotment is the shroud. The world is a blindfold that separates the dead from the living, deceives those who search for the eternal with various tricks, make them fall into carelessness. People are strangers in this world, constantly in exile…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about Initiation… Because, those who become aspirants for the path of God know that in ‘the Door of the World’, entered through being born by mothers, those who do not give birth to themselves cannot find their roots and reach the Truth. Until gaining the capacity of walking alone, they need a friend who would guide and initiate. That person is the guide of the traveler, they are the initiator. They would make the aspirant whom they established a tie with, swim in the sea of knowledge, revive; they would turn their ‘child’ of path whose spiritual birth they became a guide for, to the direction of qıbla, to the essence…
THE WITNESS OF TIME, tells about the Entity… Because followers of the Truth, see the World of Entity as God’s manifesting Himself, as the manifestation of the divine speech. All the beings in the cosmos, consists of His entity’s reflecting in various forms, the manifestation of His divine names. We can only be aware of Him with our intellect. Not with a partial intellect but with a universal intellect. The world which is the world of created things, or as phrased in Sufism, “all else other than God”, has a limited, temporary and a comparative reality. Everything that exists, is mortal and the eternal and the living one is the Entity…
