How sacred the water is.... Water is homogenous with birth.... There is a monument beside every water fountain. It was in such places that human kind recounted their words... Water is born just like life. It flows...It is ceaselessly flowing within time... So is life. Is that not so? Life ceases at a certain point in time, but water is endlessly flowing...The seminaries in Mardin are describing the past like a book. These are parables with a philosophical dimension and also relevant to our time. Water is born just as life is born... Human kind comes to life like water and grow; however, he is mortal, but water is in flux... Has the Almighty defined human kind in the same way by making him coeval with water.... In seminaries life is being taught with the aid of water. Human kind first comes to the world and after his childhood days replenishes the pool. The pond is an allegory to life. Later he comes out of the pool and disappears, meaning that he delivers his soul. Human kind is mortal. What about water? After meandering, water comes back once again... The same with human kind. He is reborn... It is necessary to examine the philosophical dimension of this analogy. Both in the Zinciriye and the Kasımıye seminaries these concepts are being taught by means of diagrams in order that people may not forget them. Water has been added to the order of things in a form, which describes life... Life has been drained to the Mesopotamian plain.

  Would it be conceivable to imagine life in the absence of plains? Human beings have throughout the ages sustained their lives by means of the sealike Mesopotamian plain. Contemplating the plain from on high they evidently must have become rapturous for such a rich plain. They must have looked at the water and brooded over their mortality.

  Prayers were recited close to the water... The source of the water has become a mecca of knowledge. Facing the water they have uttered their sentiments worthwhile in their lives. They have chanted each other their loves, and their best recitations near water fountains.

 Sometimes gardens of paradise were constructed and often seminaries like these... But they never neglected uttering their words, adding, "Life is flowing like water. You should never forget that in the end, death will prevail."On some occasions the human beings expressed themselves on marble. On others, they had water to utter what he had to say. The actual testimony of what has been recounted is over there, for you to look and see...