He was born in the village of Semikale of Narman in 1861. He saw the daughter of the ruler of Bedeşhan city, Gülperi, in his dream and began to travel to find her when he’s young.

The beauties, took each other’s by the hand, coming

Don’t you give me a greeting of god?

Did my god create you as ornaments?

Won’t you come when we want you to come

Your eyebrows are black like bows

Today is the world tomorrow is the other world

Pleasing on heart is a hundred pilgrimages

Don’t you know how to please a heart?

I am Sümmani, my tongue is helpless

I may travel country to country myself

Tomorrow is the judgement day, I may complain

Won’t you come to the place of the judgement day?

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