CHITTI SHEIKHAN (Part 3)

Hafiz Barkhurdar Ranjha

رانجھا برخودار مصنف گور جناں دی چٹی

ہر ہر بیت اونہاں دا مٹھاں جیویں مصری دی کٹھی

       

Hazrat Hafiz Barkhurdar (1658-1707) a JATT by Cast, belong to Takht Hazara District Sargodha Pakistan. He was Student of Hakeem SHEIKH ABDUL HAMEED QURESHI. He do Bait under Hakeem family ancestors, that Hakeem Family brought Hafiz Barkhurdar from Takht Hazara to a place name CHITTI SHEIKHAN in Sialkot & then Hafiz Barkhurdar lived there & died in 1707 at CHITTI SHEIKHAN. He is Buried in Maqbara Kabrastan at Chitti Sheikhan. He also written the famous Punjabi Qissa Mirza Sahiba compiled by Dr Faqeer Muhammad Faqeer, which was also sung by famous ALAM LOHAR A folk singer.

صاحباں مرنوں ڈرن نہ محبتے عشق لکاون ننگ

سڑ دا تاوری مار دا اتے شمع پتنگ

جیّوں شہیداں دے کربلا عاشق ویکھن جنگ

کچی پوے مہاستی سڑنوں موڑے انگ

             

     Hafiz Barkhuradar was the first Punjabi poet who translate the Persian poetic version of Surah Yousaf into Punjabi, done at the request of Nawab Jafar Khan, Brother in law of Emperor SHAH JHAN & Senior Minister of emperor Aurangzeb.Barkhurdar was the Hafiz OF THE HOLY QURAN, meaning that he memorized the entirely HOLY BOOK, & spent his Life as a religious Scholor.He went  on to write several religious books Though He is said to have stopped writing poetry, He Composed The legend of Yousaf Zulekha, Kissa Khatri which is poetic commentary of The Hadith al-dunya mazra’at al-akhirah(This world is the Seedbed of the Hereafter).He write many Punjabi Books including:-

Nehat-ul-Uloom, Rasala Namaz, Shamas-ul-Uloom, Muftah-ul-Mualli,

Fiqah Jamal & many others.

Tomb Of Hafiz Barkhurdar Ranjha at Chitti sheikhan 

Book: Taj Ul Arifeen written by  Peer Muhammad Ajmal Qureshi

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