Madho Lal Hussain

Shah Hussain (1538– 14 January 1600) was a 16th century Punjabi Sufi poet who is regarded as a pioneer of the Kafi form of Punjabi poetry.

Shrine of Maddho Lal Hussein in Lahore

Quotes

Stanza

• O God, you are the only confident of my days
  You are inside, outside, you are settled in my pores
  You the warp, the weft, my each and everything is you
  Say Hussain, the worthless fakir, I am nothing, You are all.
  • Verses of a lowly Fakir Madho Lal Hussain, 2016, p. 3.

Stanza

• O Mother ! To whom can I tell, this state of separation-pain
  Fires of Faqeer smoulder, wherever I rummage ruby-red gain,
  Thorns pierces, make me mad, separation my mind's refrain
  O Mother ! To whom can I tell, this state of separation-pain.
  • Masterworks of Punjabi Sufi Poetry: Kafi Shah Hussain, translated by Muzaffar A Ghaffar, Vol. 2, p. 691

See also

• Masterworks of Punjabi Sufi Poetry: Kafi Shah Hussain, translated by Muzaffar A Ghaffar, Vol. 2, Lahore.
• Verses of a lowly Fakir Madho Lal Hussain: Kafi Shah Hussain, translated by Naveed Alam, 2016, Haryana, India.