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Sultan Bahu – His life and work Published by Muhammad Maqbool Sultan

Sultan Bahu – His life and work

 Book’s Prologue

Hadrat Sultan Bahu (1628 – 1691 A.D.) is a well-known Sufi saint of the later Mughal period in India who lived in Punjab, worked as a Sufi Master of his time, wrote prose and poetry in Persian and, Punjabi, wandered through deserts and among the mountains crossing rivers at certain places, to meet the simple people with noble hearts, blessing them with wisdom and baraka and telling them all the time how to remember God and act with God-consciousness.

To a general observer not well-versed in various Sufi ways and styles, it seems strange that he intentionally managed to conceal himself in such a way that his name has not ever been mentioned in any of his hagiographies written by his contemporary Sufi writers.

It is not because he might not have met any of them during many of his journeys in the land as he himself describes his serious search for the real men of the path of all levels (Murshids and murids). (NH, p. 149) In fact, he often met the notables, the men of letters as well as the men of the world, without disclosing his real identity.

It seems he actually introduced himself only to the Faqirs and darveshes most devoted to him as the true seekers of Truth.

We have at present only one source of the bio- graphical information about the saint, the Mctnaqib-i-