Baba bulleh shah biography of donald
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Hadrat Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadiri also known as Hadrat Baba Bulleh Shah Alaihir raHma is universally admitted to have been the greatest of the Panjabi mystics. No Panjabi mystic poet enjoys a wider celebrity and a greater reputation. His kafis have gained unique popularity. In truth he is one of the greatest Sufis of the world and his thought equals that of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams Tabriz of Persia. As a poet Bulleh Shah fryst vatten different from the other mystiker poets of the Panjab, and represents that strong and living pious nature of Panjabi character which is more reasonable than emotional or passionate. As he was an outcome of the traditional mystic thought we can trace some amount of mystic phraseology and sentiment in his poetry but, in the main, intellectual vedantic thought is its chief characteristic.
He was born in a Saiyyid family residing at, the village Pandoki of Kasur in the Lahore district, in the year A.D. 1680. This was during the twenty-first year of Emperor Aurangzeb
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Bulleh Shah’s Poetry
Bulleh Shah‘s real name was Abdullah Shah, was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet, a humanist and philosopher.
Born: 1680 Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Died: 1757 (aged 77) Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan
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Early life and background
Bulleh Shah is believed to have been born in 1680, in the small by of Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, now in Pakistan. His ancestors had migrated from Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan.
When he was six months old, his parents relocated to Malakwal. There his father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a preacher in the village mosque and a teacher. His father later got a job in Pandoke, 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 eminent mystiker saint, Shah Inayat Qadiri.
Little fryst vatten known about Bulleh Shah’s direkt ancestors, except that they were migrants from
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Bulleh Shâh is generally regarded to be one of the greatest Sufi poet/saints from the Punjab area of India. Born in 1680 in Pandoke Village, a few miles from Lahore, his original name was Abdullah Shâh. The child was born with an innate mystical temperament and a poetic soul.
As a young boy in school, the teacher taught Bulleh Shâh the letter Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. The other boys in his class finished the whole alphabet while he was still mastering that one letter. When weeks passed, and the teacher saw that the child did not advance further than the first letter, Alif, he thought that the child must be dumb and sent him home to his parents, saying, “Your boy is deficient; I cannot teach him.”
Bulleh Shâh’s parents did all they could to provide him with a proper education. They placed him under the tutelage of various teachers, but he made no progress. They were greatly disappointed, and in the end, Bulleh ran away from home so he would not be a bur