The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) on Thursday arranged Sufi Sangat to pay tribute to Sufi mystic poet Mian Muhammad Bakhsh.
Bakhshs is best remembered for Saiful Malook, the ageless saga of a prince, a fairy princes and an ogre written on the locale of a lake in Kaghan, which became famous by the name of Lake Saiful Malook.
Special programmes including poetry symposium, recitation of sufi poetry were arranged to highlight contribution of Bakhsh towards Punjabi poetry.
Author of Great Sufi Wisdom Saeed Ahmed said that Bakhsh wrote 18 books, all in the Punjabi language except one in Persian. He led a celibate life, devoting his whole life to writing such powerful spiritual thoughts in a versified form whose beauty now must be admired in a sincere and honest way.
Bakhsh not only talks about the various social evils such as greed, lust, violence, arrogance and negative trends in society but also gives remedies for the ailments, he stated. Ahmed read some verses from Saiful Malook.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2021.
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