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GREAT SUFI WISDOM WARIS SHAH
Waris Shah, one of the most famous Punjabi Sufi Poet, was born in 1722 in Jandiala Sher Khan (District Shiekhupura). As he writes about himself in the Heer in the following words
Waris shah holds the same position in Punjabi that Shakespeare has in English, Saddi in Persian, Kalidas in Sanskrit and Ghalib in Urdu

by Fakhar Zaman
 

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