Rakhyal Shah

Rakhyal Shah (1842 – 1940) was a Balochi Sufi poet from Fateh Pur Sharif, most famous for his multivolume book of Sufi poetry Bahar al-`ishq. The poet himself grew to be the head of a cult, and after his death in 1940, a dargah (shrine) was built in Fateh Pur Sharif to honour him. Rakhyal Shah wrote poetry in five languages including Sindhi, Balochi, Saraiki, Urdu and Persian. His shrine was the target of suicide bombings in 2005 and in 2017.

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