The revenge of the Ghost.

And Last but not the least .. in the sweet revenge series

The revenge of the Ghost.

“If God were to be found by bathing and washing,
then God would be found by fish and frogs.

If God were to be found by roaming in jungle,
then God would be found by cows and buffaloes.

O Mian Bulleh
God is found by hearts righteous and pure.”

The above lines were penned by the 18th century Mystic Sufi poet Bulleh Shah. No wonder the clergy were not amused by his free thinking but people were attracted to his thoughts.

He spent his whole life in the small town of Kasur now in the Pakistan Punjab. So when he passed away the clerics took their final revenge by refusing to offer his namaz-e-janaza, or final prayer – an extreme form of disrespect.

They also disallowed Bulleh Shah’s followers to bury him in the city. Bulleh Shah was buried outside the limits of the city of Kasur.

While the clergy believed the heretic has been punished justly, the fame of Bulleh Shah was only just beginning to spread.

People from across Punjab – the land of five rivers – began traveling to his final resting place to pay homage to the poet. Slowly, a bazaar came up around his shrine. Gradually, as the fame of the shrine spread far and wide, the city of Kasur, too, eventually shifted around the shrine. The former city of clergy turned into a graveyard.

And the Ghost had the last laugh.