Dört Kapı

The four gates ( Turkish Dört Kapı ), more precisely four gates, forty gates ( Turkish Dört Kapı Kırk Makam ), refer to a concept in Alevism . To a lesser extent, it also relates to the concept in other branches of Islam such as the Ismailis .

It means that there are four paths to Allah starting with the Şeriat , then the Tarikat , then the Marifet and then the Hakikat :

1. Seriat : acceptance of the laws and duties of the community in which one lives.
2. Tarikat Knowledge of the individual rights and claims that you have and make yourself. This is linked to the question "What do I want, what is mine?"
3. Marifet : Knowledge of the neighbor. Linked to this is the question: "What does the fellow human being desire, what belongs to the fellow human being?"
4. Hakikat : Reaching the fourth gate requires preoccupation with the rights and duties of the community. From this gate onwards, the respective individual has the right and the opportunity to help shape the duties and rights of the community from the "first tar", which ensures the further development and modernization of the first gate.

See also

• Müsahiplik
• Rehber

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fuat Bozkurt: Buyruk, Anadolu Matbaası, 1982, pp. 125–129