HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN SAINTS IN ANATOLIA.HIS LINEAGE GOES BACK TO HAJJI BEKTASH WALI.HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF THE UNCLE OF HAJJI BEKTASH WALI.ACCOMPANYING THE CONQUEST OF BURSA,HE THEN LEFT THE REGION TO GO AND LIVE IN ANTALYA’S ELMALI TOWN,WHERE HE DIED LATER.HIS MAUSOLEUM WAS ALSO IN ELMALI.ABDAL MUSA MAUSOLEUM WAS AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS PLECES TO VISIT IN ANATOLIA.THE SAYING THOUGHT TO HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN KAYGUSUZ ABDAL AND ABDAL MUSA WAS AS FOLLOWS: THE SON OF THE GOVERNOR OF ALANYA AT OTTOMAN TIMES,ONE DAY GOES HUNTING AT THE MOUNTAINS.AS HE ENCOUNTERS WITH A GAZELLE,HE THROWS HIS ARROW AND HITS THE GAZELLE AT ITS LEFT UNDERARM.THE GAZELLE TRIES TO ASCAPE FROM THE HUNTER AND ENTERS INTO THE DERVISH.LODGE OF ABDAL MUSA WHICH IS AT THE TEKKE VILLAGE OF ELMALI TOWN.THE HUNTER WAITS AT THE DOOR OF DERVISH LODGE AND ASKS TO DERVISHES COMING OF THE LODGE , TO BRING HIS PREY.DERVISHES TELL THE HUNTER THAT THEY DIDN’T SEE A PREY WITHIN THE LODGE.BUT THE HUNTER INSISTS ON GETTING HIS PREY.THEN DERVISHES CALL FOR ABDAL MUSA TO COME AND TALK WITH THE HUNTER.ABDAL MUSA LISTENS THE STORY OF HUNTER AGAIN AND ASKS HIM WHETHER HE COULD RECOGNIZE HIS PREY IF HE SEES IT . “I HIT IT AT ITS LEFT UNDERARM WITH MY ARROW,”SAYS HUNTER,ADDING ,”I CAN RECOGNIZE4 MY ARROW.”THEN ABDAL MUSA OPENS HIS ROBE AND SHOWS HUNTER OF HIS ARROW,UNDER HIS LEFT UNDERARM.THE HUNTER,IMPLORING MERCY FROM ABDAL MUSA,SAYS I WON’T LEAVE THIS DERVISH LODGE. HE THEN CHANGES HIS NAME INTO KAYGUSUZ ABDAL AND STARTS FOLLOWING GOD’S WAY THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.THERE ARE MANY POEMS EXPLAINING THE CHARACTER OF ABDAL MUSA AND HIS DEEP KNOWLEDGE IN SCIENCE.SOME OF HIS POEM IS REMAINED KNOWN EVEN IN TODAY’S ANATOLIA. WHO KNOWS FROM WHICH LINEAGE WE COME FROM WE ARE NEITHER FROM WOOD NOR FROM WATER THE ONE WE CAPTURE STARTS SHOWING SKILLS WE ARE FROM A CLAN FROM KHORASAN KIM NE BİLİR BİZ NİCE SOYDANIZ NE ZERRECE ODDAN NE DE SUDANIZ