Birth date:
1680
Death date:
1757
Bulleh Shah, sometimes Bulla(h) Shah (1680–1757) (Punjabi: بلہے شاہ) was a Punjabi Sufi poet, humanist and philosopher. His full name was Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri[1]
Modern renderings
In the 1990s Junoon, a rock band from Pakistan, rendered his poems Bullah Ki Jaana and Aleph (Ilmon Bas Kareen O Yaar). In 2004, Rabbi Shergill turned the abstruse metaphysical poem Bullah Ki Jaana into a rock/fusion song that gained popularity in India and Pakistan.[2][3]
Further reading
Bulleh Shah: the love-intoxicated iconoclast, by J. R. Puri, Tilaka Raj Shangri. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986
Great Sufi Poets of The Punjab, by R. M. Chopra, Iran Society, Kolkata, 1999.
Poems by this Poet
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| I Have Been Pierced By The Arrow Of Love | 31 July 2013 |
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| I have got lost in the city of love | 31 July 2013 |
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| I have learnt a secre | 31 July 2013 |
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| I long for my beloved | 31 July 2013 |
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| I long for you, this is so, what can I do | 31 July 2013 |
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| I'm going together with Jogi | 31 July 2013 |
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| If the divine is found through ablutions | 31 July 2013 |
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| Lift this veil beloved one | 31 July 2013 |
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| Look into Yourself | 31 July 2013 |
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| Love is ever new and fresh | 31 July 2013 |
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