Saif ul Malook - Arifana Kalam, Urdu,
* [A4+] Hardback - 388 pages,
by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Published in Lahore.

Description :


Hadrat Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, rahmatullahi 'alayhi, was a Sufi saint and a Punjabi poet of great repute. He is especially renowned as the writer of this outstanding book of poetry --- Saif ul Maluk. He was born in 1830 _{[Common Era]} in a village called khanqah Pir-e-Shah Gazi Khari Sharif, situated near Mirpur District (of Azad Jammu & Kashmir).


Once he started to advance along the Sufi path he became more and more interested in composing poetry, and one of the first things he penned was a qasidah in praise of his spiritual guide. He was initiated into the Qadiri tariqat (spiritual order).  His poetry is essentially written in the Pothohari dialect of Punjabi, and utilises a rich vocabulary of Persian and Arabic words. Such was his reputation that he was given the deserved title of the ''Rumi of Punjab.''



See image below for page sample.
Decent paper and print by the usual sub-continental standards!

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* Dimensions : 24 x 19 cm.