Bulleh shah biography in punjabi language newspaper
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IT is easy to wax lyrical about a classical Punjabi poet without fear of reprobation by the guardians of literary canon. When the poet concerned is Bulleh Shah, one can employ any number of laudatory adjectives with critical impunity to praise his works. An occasional reviewer for an English newspaper, in any case, is least equipped to offer an impartial, academic critique of the verses written by one of the greatest Punjabi poets of all times. What follows, therefore, will confine itself to discussing how — and also how successfully or unsuccessfully — Muzaffar A. Ghaffaar has made Bulleh Shah’s works accessible to readers with either no or limited literacy in Punjabi.
Ghaffaar is a Lahore-based businessman who has been a patron of the arts and literature since the 1980s. He has authored and compiled several books including the Masterworks of Punjaabi Sufi Poetry, a series of which his compendium of Bulleh Shah-made-easy is a part. He mentions at the outset that five to ten per cent of approximately 150 million Punjabis living around the world (roughly 90 million in Pakistan, 50 million or so in India, the rest in Europe and America) “may thirst for a return” to their cultural roots. Some of them, he writes in his preface to the series, “may veer towards the very rich tradit
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Bulleh Shah
Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri | |
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| Born | Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri c. 1680 CE Uch, Punjab, Mughal Empire |
| Died | c. 1757 CE (aged 77) Kasur, Bhangi Misl, Sikh Confederacy |
| Resting place | Kasur, Punjab |
| Religion | Islam |
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| Main interest(s) | Tassawuf, ishq, philosophy, poetry, divine love |
| Tariqa | Qadiriyya[1] |
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| Philosophy | Sufism |
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Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri[2] (Punjabi: سید عبداللہ شاہ قادری (Shahmukhi); ਸੱਈਦ ਅਬਦੁੱਲਾਹ ਸ਼ਾਹ ਕ਼ਾਦਰੀ(Gurmukhi); 1680–1757), known popularly as Bulleh Shah (Punjabi: بُلّھے شاہ (Shahmukhi); ਬੁੱਲ੍ਹੇ ਸ਼ਾਹ(Gurmukhi)) and Bulleya, was a Punjabiphilosopher and Sufi poet during 17th-century Punjab.[3] His first spiritual teacher was Shah Inayat Qadiri, a Sufimurshid of Lahore. He was a mystic poet and is universally regarded as "The Father of Punjabi Enlightenment". He lived and was buried in Kasur.
Biography[edit]
He was born in 1680 in Uch, Mughal Empire (present day Punjab , Pakistan). After his early education, he went to Lahore where he met Inayat Ari
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Bulleh Shah
Punjabi theorist and sonneteer (1680–1757)
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