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Shrine of Baba Bulleh Shah (r.a) (Internal Mosque) (Kasur) | mazar, sufism, interesting place

Pakistan / Punjab / Kasur / Railway Road
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Baba Bulleh Shah RA was a Punjabi Sufi poet, believed to have lived from 1680 to 1758.Bulleh's real name was Abdullah Shah, but Bulleh was his nickname at home, and that is the name he chose to use as a poet.Bulleh Shah was a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, through the progeny of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gillani RA of Baghdad.
As is a common practice in South Asian poetry, his poems include a signature line which contains his name. Bulleh Shah was settled in Kasur, now in Pakistan. The verse form Bulleh Shah primarily employed is called the Kafi, a style of Punjabi, Sindhi and Siraiki poetry used not only by the Sufis of Sindh and Punjab, but also by Sikh gurus.Bulleh Shah’s writings represent him as a humanist, someone providing solutions to the sociological problems of the world around him as he lives through it.
His spiritual master was Shah Inayat Qadiri of Lahore. The ancestral village of Bulleh Shah was Uch Gilaniyan in Bahawalpur, now a part of Pakistan, though his ancestors had migrated from Bukhara in modern day Uzbekistan. From there his family first shifted to Malakwal (Multan District, Pakistan) and then to Pandoke, which is about 14 miles southeast of Kasur, Pakistan.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleh_Shah
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Coordinates:   31°7'15"N   74°26'52"E

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