The Esoteric Meaning of the World of “Eternally Valuable Essences” written by Zhusup Balasaguni in “Kuttu Bilim”

Abstract

The article deals with the esoteric component of the world of values of Zhusup Balasaguni in “Kuttu Bilim”. The goal is to clarify, not the external obvious meaning of the text, how to manage the state and society in such a way as to achieve a “fair” and “reasonable, rational” state of not only the ruling court but also a “happy”, “self-sufficient, wise” state society. The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the still emerging in the XI century (the time of the life and work of the poet), which arose in the X century and developed according to the XV medieval classical Muslim poetic tradition, the heart of which was Sufism. To achieve this goal, historical-cultural, hermeneutic, and comparative methods were used, including contrast understanding / created by A. Smirnov. The results of the articles are recommendations for understanding and relevance of the perception of the text by readers, for adequate perception of the images of the poem, articulation of concepts, gaps and hidden signs, hints that disappear if you do not take into account the context of the era, the author's intentions, as well as the tendency to perceive knowledge. The text of Zhusup Balasagun is a complex synthesis, valuable, and as a classic poetic Turkic-language masterpiece; and as a kind of Turkic (neither Arabic nor Persian) set of pragmatics “teachings to princes”; and as a refined Sufi philosophical source.