Madho Lal Hussain

16th century Indian Punjabi poet

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.
 
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