In 2004, Rabbi Shergill successfully performed the unlikely feat of turning the abstruse metaphysical poem Bullah Ki Jaana into a Rock/Fusion song, which became hugely popular in India and Pakistan. In the 1990s Junoon, AsiaвЂ™s biggest rock band from Pakistan, rendered such poems as Aleph ( Ilmon Bas Kareen O Yaar) and Bullah Ki Jaana. Thus, many people have put his kafis to music, from humble street-singers to renowned Sufi singers like the Waddali Brothers, Abida Parveen and Pathanay Khan, from the synthesized techno qawwali remixes of UK-based Asian artists to the rock band Junoon.Д«ulleh ShahвЂ™s popularity stretches uniformly across Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, to the point that much of the written material about this philosopher is from Hindu and Sikh authors. The simplicity with which Bulleh Shah has been able to address the complex fundamental issues of life and humanity is a large part of his appeal. His poetry highlights his mystical spiritual voyage through the four stages of Sufism: Shariat (Path), Tariqat (Observance), Haqiqat (Truth) and Marfat (Union). Hence killing innocent Muslim was not the answer to AurangzebвЂ™s reign of oppression.Д«ulleh ShahвЂ™s writings represent him as a humanist, someone providing solutions to the sociological problems of the world around him as he lives through it, describing the turbulence his motherland of Punjab is passing through, while concurrently searching for God. Bulleh Shah told him that the same sword which fell upon Guru Gobind SinghвЂ™s sons and innocent Sikhs also fell upon innocent Muslims. Baba Bulleh Shah tried to convince Banda Singh Bairagi to renounce his campaign of revenge. In retaliation for the murder of Guru Gobind SinghвЂ™s two sons by Aurangzeb, he sought revenge by killing common Muslims. Bulleh Shah maintained that violence was not the answer to violence.Bulleh Shah also hailed Guru Tegh Bahadur as a ghazi (Islamic term for a religious warrior) and incurred the wrath of the fanatic muslims at the time.Д«anda Singh Bairagi was a contemporary of Bulleh Shah. Baba Bulleh Shah denounced the murder of an innocent Sikh and was censured by the mullas and muftis of Pandoke. While Bulleh Shah was in Pandoke, Muslims killed a young Sikh man who was riding through their village in retaliation for murder of some Muslims by Sikhs. But in that age Baba Bulleh Shah was a beacon of hope and peace for the citizens of Punjab. 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.Д«ulleh ShahвЂ™s poetry and philosophy strongly criticizes Islamic religious orthodoxy of his day.Д«ulleh ShahвЂ™s time was marked with communal strife between Muslims and Sikhs. Amongst Urdu poets, Bulleh Shah lived 400 miles away from Mir Taqi Mir (1723 вЂ“ 1810) of Agra. His lifespan also overlapped with the legendary Punjabi poet Waris Shah (1722 вЂ“ 1798), of Heer Ranjha fame, and the famous Sindhi Sufi poet Abdul Wahad (1739 вЂ“ 1829), better known by his pen-name, Sachal Sarmast (вЂњtruth seeking leader of the intoxicated onesвЂќ). Other вЂњfactsвЂќ seem to have been passed down through oral traditions.Д«ulleh Shah practiced the Sufi tradition of Punjabi poetry established by poets like Shah Hussain (1538 вЂ“ 1599), Sultan Bahu (1629 вЂ“ 1691), and Shah Sharaf (1640 вЂ“ 1724).Д«ulleh Shah lived in the same period as the famous Sindhi Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhatai (1689 вЂ“ 1752). Some вЂњfactsвЂќ about his life have been pieced together from his own writings. However, Bulleh ShahвЂ™s family was directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH).ДЄ large amount of what is known about Bulleh Shah comes through legends, and is subjective to the point that there isnвЂ™t even agreement among historians concerning his precise date and place of birth. Little is known about Bulleh ShahвЂ™s direct ancestors, except that they were migrants from Uzbekistan. His spiritual teacher was the eminent Sufi saint, Shah Inayat Qadiri. He also received education from Maulana Mohiyuddin. Bulleh Shah received his early schooling in Pandoke, and moved to Kasur for higher education. His father later got a job in Pandoke, about 50 miles southeast of Kasur. There his father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a preacher in the village mosque and a teacher. When he was six months old, his parents relocated to Malakwal. His ancestors had migrated from Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan. Bulleh ShahвЂs real name was Abdullah Shah, was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet, a humanist and philosopher.Д«orn: 1680 Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, PakistanДied: 1757 (aged 77) Kasur, Punjab, PakistanД«ulleh Shah is believed to have been born in 1680, in the small village of Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, now in Pakistan.

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