Point and meaning of Yusuf Balasaguni‘s “Kutadgu bilig” poem

Abstract

This article is devoted to thinking on meaning of Yusuf Balasaguni’s “Kutadgu bilig” poem.
The article has reviews to some topics: Yusuf Balasaguni’s epoch; cultural environment, in which Yusuf Balasaguni’s “Kutadgu bilig“ was written; sources of Yusuf Balasaguni’s life and creativity; social
importance of the poem; four concepts and four values, which formed the basis of the poem; justice
(right laws ), goodness, mind, restraint; an educative function of the dastan; artistic and aesthetic function of the dastan; thoughts about speediness of mundane life; grace knowledge; auspicious meaning
of the knowledge; public officials’ duties and comities; ruler’s merit; rules concerning the relationship
among the public officials; Yusuf Balasaguni is the Turkic world’s distinguished poet and thinker. It is a
common treasure of Turkic peoples written in the ancient language. Many researchers say this poem is
a philosophical treatise on politics, government, and military affairs. In fact, this is not a literary world.
It is the basis of the whole historical period, the basis of the social, political, social, cultural, ethical,
spiritual treasures. The traditional unity of didactic poetry, slogans and slander, the dreams of the Kazakh
literature in which the Kazakh literature is closely associated with it, is the “unity” of the traditional unity
of modern Kazakh language.