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Syed
Abdullah
Shah
Qadri
(1680–1757)
known
popularly
as
Bulleh
Shah
and
Bulleya,
was
a
Punjabi
philosopher
and
Sufi
poet
during
17th-century
Punjab.
His
ancestors
had
migrated
from
Bukhara
(modern-day
Uzbekistan)
in
the
14th/15th
century
AD.
His
first
spiritual
teacher
was
Shah
Inayat
Qadiri,
a
Sufi
murshid
of
Lahore.
He
was
a
mystic
poet
and
is
universally
regarded
as
"The
Father
of
Punjabi
Enlightenment".
He
lived
and
was
buried
in
Kasur.
He
was
born
in
1680
in
Uch,
Mughal
Empire
(present
day
Punjab,
Pakistan)
to
a
family
of
Persian
origin.Bulleh
Shah
was
an
eminent
scholar
of
Arabic
and
Persian.After
his
early
education,
he
went
to
Lahore
where
he
met
Inayat
Arian,
and
became
his
disciple.
Bulleh
Shah's
father,
Shah
Muhammad
Darwaish,
was
well-versed
in
Arabic,
Persian,
and
the
Quran.Due
to
uncertain
reasons,
he
had
to
move
to
Malakwal,
a
village
of
Sahiwal.
Later,
when
Bulleh
Shah
was
six
years
old,
his
family
moved
to
Pandoke,
which
is
50
miles
southeast
of
Kasur.
Bulleh
Shah
was
schooled
by
his
father,
along
with
the
other
children
of
the
village.
Most
sources
confirm
that
Bulleh
Shah
had
to
work
as
a
child
and
adolescent
herder
in
the
village.
It
is
confirmed
that
he
received
his
higher
education
in
Kasur.
Some
historians
claim
that
Bulleh
Shah
received
his
education
at
a
highly
reputed
madrassa
run
by
Hafiz
Ghulam
Murtaza
where
he
taught
for
some
time
after
his
graduation.
After
his
early
education,
he
went
to
Lahore
where
he
met
Inayat
Arian,
and
became
his
disciple.
He
died
in
1757,
at
the
age
of
77
and
was
buried
in
Kasur,
where
he
had
spent
most
of
his
life.
A
dargah
was
built
over
his
grave.
He
was
declared
non-Muslim
by
a
few
literalist
"Mullah"
of
Kasur
and
they
had
claimed
it
was
prohibited
to
offer
the
funeral
prayer
of
Bulleh
Shah
due
to
Kufr
fatwa
(allegations)
put
on
him
by
extremists.
His
funeral
prayer
was
led
by
Qazi
Hafiz
Syed
Zahid
Hamdani,
a
great
religious
personality
of
Kasur.
He
was
buried
in
Kasur
when
he
died
in
1757.
There
is
a
clean
and
very
huge
veranda
which
leads
to
the
Tomb
of
Baba
Bulleh
Shah
as
you
enter
the
shrine.
The
ceiling
of
shrine
is
decorated
with
the
verses
of
Bulleh
Shah
in
elegant
calligraphy.
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