Define Shakarim's existential reflection on the meaning of life.
Shakarim Kudaiberdiuly wrote a special philosophical treatise "The Three Truths".
He was a very educated man. He knew the culture of the West and the East well.
The "The Three Truths" contains the names of many famous, well-known
scientists.
Biography. Shakarim Kudaiberdiev is a talented Kazakh poet, humanist and
philosopher. The poet and philosopher was persecuted, was treacherously killed,
forgotten after death, and his works destroyed. The Tobykty clan was blessed with
the birth of a boy in the family of Kudaiberdy, the elder brother of Abai
Kunanbayev. The boy was named Shakarim. A joyful event took place in KenBulak. At the age of five, Shakarim became a student of the mullah. The sevenyear-old child was marked by tragedy: he was left an orphan. Uncle Abai took him
in for upbringing. He was engaged in politics, was elected to the volost rulers.
Seriously engaged in creativity only since 1898, after forty years. His translation of
Hafiz into Kazakh remains unsurpassed in skill and technique, as does his brilliant
translation of Pushkin's novel Dubrovsky. He independently mastered the Arabic,
Persian, Turkish, Russian languages. In 1903 he was admitted to the West Siberian
Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
In the history of philosophy, Shakarim correctly understood that there are two
important directions, two different world view positions:
1. Idea of the creator-master.
2. The other recognizing that everything in the world has arisen spontaneously and
there is no immortal soul.
This is a great achievement.
"A person has two different ways that have long been said to exist. At the same
time, when a person dies, he does not lose his immortal soul, and after death there
is one other life that does not even look like life. Therefore, without thinking about
the only world, one should take care to be better in this last life. This means that
the last way of life is from death. At the same time, all this happens by itself, and
there is no master who will not be the Lord, and will not believe after death". wrote Shakarim in "The Three Truths".
In his philosophy he formulates two main directions in the development of human
thought: one recognizing the idea of the creator-master, the other recognizing that
everything in the world has arisen spontaneously and there is no immortal soul.
The central object of Shakarim's philosophy was man. He believed that the essence
of man, his nature is knowledge. Knowledge of truth but truth is not given to man
in the senses.
“The Three Truths”.
The first interpretation:
The first truth is the truth of faith, which recognizes the existence of the Creator
and the idea of the immortality of the soul.
The second truth is the truth of science, based on reliable data of sensory
perceptions and rational-logical thinking.
The third truth is the truth of the soul, the substantial basis of which is conscience.
According to the second interpretation: the basis for a good life should be: honest
work; conscientious mind; sincere heart.
Shakarim Kudaiberdiev is one of the brightest figures in the history of Kazakh
literature after the Abay period, his work seems to complete the path of Kazakh
literature of the XIX century and combines realistic, humanistic and democratic
traditions with the new time.