BULLEH SHAH
Bulleh Shah(1680–1757) was a Punjabi Sufi poet humanist
and philosopher.His full name was Abdullah ShahBulleh Shah is believed to have
been born in 1680, in the small village of Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, in present
day Pakistan. His father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a teacher and preacher in
a village mosque. Little is known about Bulleh Shah's ancestry except that some
of his forebears were migrants from Uzbekistan, and that his family claimed
direct descent from Muhammad.When he was six months old, his parents relocated
to Malakwal. His father later got a job in Paddock, about 50 miles southeast of
Kasur. Bulleh Shah received his early schooling in Pandoke and moved to Kasur
for higher education. He also received education from Maulana Mohiyuddin. His
spiritual teacher was the Qadiri Sufi Shah Inayat Qadiri, who was a member of
the Arain tribe of Lahore.The verse form Bulleh Shah primarily employed is
called the Kafi, a style of Punjabi, Sindhi and Saraiki poetry used not only by
the Sufis of Sindh and Punjab, but also by Sikh gurus.Bulleh Shah’s poetry and
philosophy strongly criticizes the Islamic religious orthodoxy of his day.[citation
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