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Tradition of fiction writing in Punjabi is very old. In 1766, WARIS SHAH wrote the famous QISSA (story) of HEER RANJHA. WARIS SHAH is the greatest fiction writer and prime pride for the essence of all human feelings, sentiments and sensational vibrations. In the whole human history of fiction writing, the most revered, honored and dignified personality depicting all its segments is WARIS SHAH , the great. The loudest cry and echo of cardinal pain is addressed to WARIS SHAH , is the influential tribute from the throat of Amirta preetam I say with severe dismay Speak out from your grave To teach us the next lesson Of true love to lessen Our feelings with essence of truth Sincerity, purity and eternity This great Sufi and philosopher poet having a high fame and repute like Shakespeare has depicted delicately the scenes and sensation of all human beings. He picturised in poetry the original dynamics of natural fiction. As tiny sparrows Chirp and fly in rows The day is dawned bright And travellers take flight The milk is being blown Get up now from sleeping gown Take now bath as enjoyed the married night Now Ranjha acrroned the sight Of a stream where the sailorman A can of honey in bribe can Be deduced as fare For crossing with care. To mention the sublime story a legendary tale of WARIS SHAH , I find no proper phrases nor worthy words to express the same spirit in true scene , yet as a favorite follower I try my best to offer some theme and thought of this great literally philosopher. When WARIS SHAH talks about Punjab, he picturised the trends and traditions of Punjab including the society and culture full of life and spirit , his style in Punjabi language starts opening new and novel aspects of sensational communication: Let us talk about in praise Takht Hazara’s surrounding phase Where young Ranjha’s, a symbol of youth Are making merry in colors and smooth These tall and strong, in loving technique In handsome in looking, brave in physique They are wearing remarkable ear ring The make of jewelry in ornamental ring A scene of joy tends to nurture Wearing folk lunges of their culture In praise of Hazara, what I mention A paradise on earth has its attraction The fair face of heer, which is presented, transcribed, exhibited and modalised by WARIS SHAH is the unique style of depiction. His tone is tuned by idioms, proverbs, illustrations, examples and the phrases which clearly witness. The poet in craze, just to praise The marvels of beauties heer lays The luck smile on her fortune Beauty is shining like a full moon Her long long black hair Well knotted into triplet pair Like the grace of daffodil Her eyes are wide and fine still Like red, fresh and soft rose Her cheeks are pinky blushing close Talk about her smart and sharp brows They are really like lahori bows The black eye-liner is fine and fair Depict Punjab culture and classical glare Her eyes so attractive pretty Like the thorough Indian beauty Just like a fairy creature Her delicate facial feature Are just giving the words look Calligraphed fine in golden book To have her look, a matter of pride Envying her beauty with every side Let WARIS SHAH have a divine light Lail-la-tu-qadar, the true holy night Her fine red lips shines bright As precious sapphire illuminates light Her smooth lovely chin Is like an apple thin Her nose is straight with a slight curve And a lit of hair on treasure to serve Her teeth are white as daisy-row And so shine, beads of pearls glow Her whole graceful and beautified posture Is like the fine and fairy’s Kashmiri picture Her height is dashing tall Like the paradise trees all Like an innocent pretty koonj smart Her knock is marked with graceful art Her fingers are so soft and thin Like in orchard the beans akin Her arms are so smooth and smart Like grinding sticks doing their art Her breast so bloomed in beautiful maturity Like marble carved round youthful purity For the redness of her lips Everyone sees, admires and slips Among her all mates, Maids and friends She seems a fairy queen with royal trends The love has its own musical circle With its magnetising lyrics and miracle Through urd-bazar, a warriers solider With a red cap he runs here and there WARIS SHAH knows well, love is special kind First eye to eye meeting wins the heart and mind The patriotic love with Punjab is well described by WARIS SHAH . From the mind to the heart, and from heart to the feelings, his style of visualisation mysmerises the reader and he carries the soul parallel to his pen. How it wonders that heer who was famous as a beloved of Ranjha, now heer is an essential character of WARIS SHAH . WARIS SHAH gained a unique style of poetic singing linguistic vocabulary, musicological rhythm, moral communication, natural and regional patriotism. He says A governor wishes soldiers with sincerity And we express with kasur patriotic nationality We are anxious and sorrowful by heart Among the whole Punjab, kasur being desert Except the external appearing grace Kasur is losing its internal trace WARIS SHAH is proud of being pupil Of great Makhdom, the kasur’s symbol The story of HEER RANJHA travels a journey from love tale to divine love has numerous ventures, sufferings, circumstances, observations, experiments, ups and downs, complications and a series of strive and struggles. WARIS SHAH seems as an objective character suffering himself through all pains and grieves. Even the event of ear piercing is the pain of WARIS SHAH himself. With bowing head and joining hands Let me request Jogi with sincere bands Accept and adapt as humble servant I came for a lesson and look brilliant We are your deciples coming with pure trust Almighty lord, is the king of learning best Without saint’s guide there is no light Towards a true path and teachings bright Just as the example to wish Without milk, no delicious creamy dish The contentment is the treasure above all Gained by patience, and endurance’s call Worldly relations have no value and trust Even father and brother, and other lust We are depressed by material gain or attain For getting rid, let us break linking chain O my guide, you are the final resort Leaving where I go, my vision don’t depart In the search of Jog, WARIS SHAH himself seems a perfect Jogi and travels, transcends and starts divine journey in search of true creator. The practice and policy of Jog is to strive on Through learning, and constant meditating on A kind of death, in struggles hearth It is achieved only with truth’s wealth To achieve creator’s wish and will A constant endurances and self’s kill With humble nature and humiliating trend We can find his guide being serving friend Faith, truth and sincerity do really change All stones melt and get the divine range Human being is no more than a clay model Yet the creator guide well in spiritual cradle WARIS SHAH finds his great Lord everywhere He is Omnipresent dwelling in all here and there WARIS SHAH talks in despair about departing of HEER and RANJHA, he picturised the gloomy scene in really sad tone. Ranjha says, departing is painful It is serve shock and really sorrowful I am thoroughly looted and ruined away All possibilities blocked, getting no way Saida gets heer, but of no use Every link is cut, all means refuse A house is in mourning sad The scène of departing is really bad Loneliness and solitude, serve grip of grief No charms of life no sigh of relief Without food and energy, no race to win To challenge for a fight is mere a sin If even sky falls, No loss, no death As the strong link hold well the earth It’s hard to depart from the beloved As a spiritual bond now deeply held WARIS SHAH it is paining to depart No hope is assured for re-union of heart It is surprising to couple a natural wonder A crow gets koonj and jackale meets with lions thunder Although everyone knows well about the life of WARIS SHAH , yet I mention briefly that he was born in village of Jandiala sher KHAN. He got elementary education from local school and then went kasur for Dars-e-nazami course. He was admitted in the same institution where from Bhulle shah had got his training. After this course, he secured skill and knowledge in several spiritual arts. Then he approached to baba farid-ud-din masood ganJ shakkar at pak-pattan. He offers tribute his spiritual guide, Pir chisthi, the great, is eye apple of mauddod he is a revered shaker gajh masood He is honor of noble chistia caste Grown perfect, famous and pious fast In pak-pattan, among twenty two He is saint, humble and noble too Later on, in Punjab, shaker gunj stayed Through his teaching, a relief he laid Fifteen kilometers away from pak-pattan on the road to sahiwal, there is a village of Malka hans, Inside a Mughlia masjid. Here at this very spot, in 1766, with in short span of only thirty months WARIS SHAH created his remarkable work “HEER WARIS SHAH ”. He himself inscribed and Calligraphed every line of his poetic work. He made three original copies. Several generations passed by train of time Many uttered in tone and sang in rhyme They all have gone, none stayed here Many rulers came, yet left their possession here Several clamed for longer tenure But the death might not assure Many came with power and long intension But Noh’s storm disturbed dimension Everyone and who has vanity and pride Has to die in grave to hide Talk not about this soul and body Everyone with a schedule has to ready WARIS SHAH has written a unique fiction No other can present such a poetic diction WARIS SHAH prays for us who are listening, reading and commentating HEER to understand, to take moral lessons and try to act and adopt the virtues described in it. O my lord, grant true readers with zeal For the treasure literature which really reveal The wit and wisdom, and the divine light And bless them all health, wealth and delight Forgive and grant mercy with great kind To everyone who sees, reads and tends to find WARIS SHAH wishes well for all His grace Faith,truth,nobility and His divine face. So here were some sublime glimpses of the work of WARIS SHAH . He is still alive surviving good life and name. He is surely the pride of our tradition of fiction writings. WARIS SHAH passed away in 1798. He is buried in his native village Jandiala sher khan district skeikhpura. Every year a grand URS is celebrated with millions of lovers and followers. And several segments are arranged to pay tribute to this great WARIS SHAH . MUHAMMAD SADIQ Founder JEHAN-E-WARIS Dera baba Muhammad Sadiq, babU saboo, Lahore by-pass, Lahore-Pakistan
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