Bulleh Shah Quotes

Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri , known popularly as Baba Bulleh Shah and Bulleya, was a 17th and 18th-century Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformer and a Sufi poet, universally regarded as the "Father of Punjabi Enlightenment". He spoke against powerful religious, political and social institutions. He lived and was buried in Kasur .He is regarded as the "Poet of the People," and the "Sheikh of Both Worlds" in the Punjab region.His poetry marked a new era in Punjabi literature and spread a wave of reformist ideas throughout the Punjab, which included social, religious and political reforms. His poetry has been sung at many important events, including one organized by UNESCO. Wikipedia  

✵ 1680 – 22. August 1757
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Famous Bulleh Shah Quotes

“In shrines dwell robbers,
in idol-houses, thugs.
In mosques live vagabonds,
the lovers of God remaind aloof.”

Bulleh Shah

Bulleh Shah, The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast, p. 136
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