![]() Na koi sadi zat pehchanay, na koi sunnuu mannay He says īullyay! Chal othay challya, jithay sarey annay However, Bulleh Shah believed in the equality of human beings irrespective of religion, race or creed. His choice of teacher became scandalous because Shah Inayat was from Arian caste, meaning a farming family whereas Bulleh Shah was a Syed. His initial education included Persian and Arabic, and was conducted under his scholar father, but later he adopted Shah Inayat Lahori as his spiritual guide. His father left Uch Sharif and settled in Malakwal for a few years before moving to Pandoke, a village southeast of Kasur. Some researchers include Surkhposh as an ancestor of Bulleh Shah too.īulleh Shah was named Abdulllah Shah Qadri but is immortalized by his loving soubriquets of Baba Bulleh Shah, Bulla and Bulleha. This author has three books in his e-library namely Kalam Hazrat Baba Bulleh Shah by Samiullah Barkat, Bulleh Shah Kehnday Nain by Maqbool Anwar Daudi and Bulleh Shah ka Kalam with Urdu translation by Ali Akbar Abbas.īulleh Shah was born in 1680 in Uch Sharif a sacred town where lived and is buried Jalaluddin Surkhposh Bukhari, a renowned saint whose illustrious descendants include, among others, Jahaniyan Jahangasht, Baba Shah Jamal and Mauj Darya Bukhari. There are many published books on Bulleh Shah. ![]() This article depicts the life and poetry, as well as socio-political environment, of Bulleh Shah who, because of his continued popularity with every section of society, can rightly be called the poet of the people. Someone needs to make amends before our children forget the names of Rahman Baba, Mast Tawakli, Shah Abdul Latif and Khwaja Farid. This is, perhaps, the greatest assault on Pakistani culture, that too inflicted by our own people. While the Urdu syllabi books at primary and middle level include a number of chapters on Islamic topics, they do not contain even a single passage or verse from sufi poets of local languages. At the same time, it is regrettable, and this author has written about this indifference, that folk poetry has been neglected in our schools and colleges. ![]() Pakistan’s regional languages have a rich literary heritage, producing some towering poets whose verses depict sentiments and idioms of the common people. ![]()
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