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Yunus Emre is an important poet who has made great contributions to today's Turkish written language. Risālat al-Nushiyya , one of the two works of Yunus Emre that has survived, is a religious-mystical work with a predominant instructive aspect. Non-finite verbs offer complex language structures suitable for long and complex narration. Converbs, which are a type of verbs and are used to form adverbial clauses; time, cause-effect, purpose, style, etc. One of the main aims of this study is to describe the use of converbs in Yunus Emre's language, which is accepted as sahl mumtani. In this study, complex sentences containing adverbial clauses formed with converbs in Risālat al-Nushiyya (RN) are discussed. It was determined from Gülsevin (2011, s. 125-133) and these converbs were scanned in the Fatih copy of Risālat al-Nushiyya (Book of Advice) prepared by Boz (2017), the latest and current study on RN. The study is limited to the tense converbs in RN, but the -sA morpheme, whose main function is to form conditional sentences, but also used in the time function in RN, and the -ken morpheme, which is marked as the case converb in Old Anatolian Turkish grammars, are also included in the scope of this study. The syntactic and semantic properties of the converbs detected in the scanned work, such as the interaction of the subordinate and main clause, the verb properties, the interaction with the sentence operators (aspect, mood, tense, subject agreement, negation) were examined.