6Jul/093
Bulleh Shah – on rejecting caste
A popular kafi of Bulleh Shah, sung by Abida Parveen "BULHE NU SAMJHAWAN AAINAN BHAINAN TE BHARJAIAN" earlier posted as " A stove is better than Bulleh" am posting its english translation thanks to Shahidain's invaluable contributions.
People discouraged Bulleh Shah from accepting Inayat Shah as his master and said " Bulleh you are a scholar and a descendent of of prophet Mohammad (pbuh). Does it seem right to you to go to an ordinary gardener of low caste and become his disciple? Is it not embarrassing?" But Bulleh showed great love and reverence for his master and did not pay any heed to this objection.
BULHE NU SAMJHAWAN AAINAN BHAINAN TE BHARJAIAN
MAN NE BULHYA SADA KAHNA CHAD DE PALLA RAIAAN
AAL-E NABI AULAD-E NABI NUN TOON KION LEEKAN LAINAN
JEHRA SANOON SYED SADDE DOZAKH MILAN SAZAIAAN
JO KOI SANOON RAEEN AAKHE BHISHTEEN PEENGAN PAIAAN
RAEEN SAEEN SABHI THAEEN RAB DIAN BE PARWAAIAN
SOHNIAN PARE HATAIAN NE TE KOJHIAN LE GAL LAAIAN
JE TU LOREEN BAAGH BAHAARAN CHAKAR HO JA RAEEAN
BULHE SHAH DI ZAAT KI PUCHNA-EN SHAKAR HO RAZAAIAN
To counsel Bulleh, his sisters and sisters in law have come
Pay heed to us and give up mixing with the low caste Araeen
You are a scion of Ali,the Prophet, why must you shame our fair clime.
Those who call me Syed, are destined to hell made for them
Those who call me Araeen, have the swings in heaven laid for them
The low caste and the high caste, are created by God who cares not for family
He regards the beautiful and cherishes the not so comely.
If you wish to enjoy the glory of the Garden, go and serve the Araeen
Why bother about Bulleh’s caste? Obey the command that comes from Saeen
(Translation by K S Duggel)
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July 7th, 2009 - 08:24
Great! I’ve been listening to this for a while and had many confusions that have been cleared up now. Thanks for putting this up.
July 7th, 2009 - 14:41
DEAR RAZA RUMI, I REALLY LIKE YOUR articles that get published i n the times of india and the news international newspaper
It was only through your casteism essay in the Sunday TOI that i came to know that you edited Pakteahouse e zine.
I have a request: You please, be more conspicuous at PTH;that yasser hamdani is making a mess of your website. I personally admire Major(r) A H Amin, but in one of the recent posts, Yasser Hamdani scoffed at his capabilities and his ethnicity .He questioned about his carer in military and badmouthed him very badly.All this to a man who writes very brilliant military articles ………….YLH uses such patronizing and rude and vulgar tone that sometimes it becomes unbearable……and when one protests his misdemeanour, he deletes the comment.
If i am not wrong, yasser has his own blog hotel mohenjodaro; so please let him write only on that.You please become more visible on PTH.
Otherwise , if you keep things like these, please stop appending to your TOI columns that you ‘edit’ PTH,please write that you ‘co-edit’ (with yasser ) Pak teahouse.
July 7th, 2009 - 14:48
For example i wrote the following comment on PTH:
quote “@PTH admin, if i had used such boorish language , directed against AH Amin without any provocation, my comment would have been deleted immediately .Why is one o one your contributors allowed to do the same? why this bias?” unquote
and yasser deleted this comment of mine evrytime i tried to publish it on PTH.
Please free YLH of PTH responsibility.Please.