Sohni Mahiwal LOVE STORY 1780

Tomb Of Sohni In Shahdad Pur
Sohni Mahiwal (Urdu/Punjabi: سوہنی مہیوال is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab, Sindh in Pakistan. This is one of the four identity of Pakistans and Punjab Literature, Sohni lived In Punjab (now Pakistan) followed by Heer Ranjha, Mirza Sahiba and Sassi Punnun. The story is one of the most prominent examples of medieval poetic legends in the Punjabi, Seraiki and Sindhilanguages.

Sohni, the potter's daughter

Sohni was the daughter of a potter named Tula, wholived in Gujrat town in late Mughal period which is around 18th centuary, India was a subcontinent now the region of Sohnis home is Punjab in . Near the River chenab there was caravan trade route between Bukhara and Delhi. As soon as the 'Surahis' (water pitchers) and mugs came off the wheels, she would draw floral designs on them and transform them into masterpieces of art.

Izzat Baig of Bukhara

Izzat Baig, the rich trader from Bukhara (Uzbekistan), came to India on business but when he saw the beautiful Sohni in the town of Gujrat in Punjab he was completely enchanted. Instead of keeping 'mohars' (gold coins) in his pockets, he roamed around with his pockets full of love. Just to get a glimpse of Sohni, he would end up buying the water pitchers and mugs everyday.

Sohni lost her heart to Izzat Baig. Instead of making floral designs on earthenware, she started building castles of love in her dreams. Izzat Baig sent off his companions to Bukhara. He took up the job of a servant in the house of Tula, Sohni's father. He would even take their buffaloes for grazing. Soon, he came to be known as "Mahiwal"(buffalo herder).

[edit]Sohni's marriage

When the people started spreading rumours about the love of Sohni and Mahiwal, without her consent her parents arranged her marriage with another potter.

Suddenly, one day his "barat" (marriage party) arrived at the threshold of her house. Sohni was helpless and in a poignant state. Her parents bundled her off in the doli (palanquin), but they could not pack off her love in any doli (box).

Izzat Baig renounced the world and started living like a "faqir" (hermit) in a small hut across the river. The earth of Sohni’s land was like a dargah (shrine) for him. He had forgotten his own land, his own people and his world. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, when the world was fast asleep, Sohni would come by the riverside and Izzat Baig would swim across the river to meet her. He would regularly roast a fish and bring it for her. It is said that once, when due to high tide he could not catch a fish, Mahiwal cut a piece of his thigh and roasted it. Seeing the bandage on his thigh, Sohni opened it, saw the wound and cried.

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Sohni Swims to Meet Her Lover Mahinwal, circa 1780 Painting fromLACMA

From the next day, Sohni started swimming across the river with the help of an earthen pitcher as Izzat Baig was so badly wounded and could not swim across the river. Soon, the rumours of their romantic rendezvous spread. One-day Sohni’s sister-in-law followed her and saw the hiding place where Sohni used to keep her earthen pitcher among the bushes. The next day, the sister-in-law removed the hard baked pitcher and replaced it with an unbaked one. That night, when Sohni tried to cross the river with the help of the pitcher, it dissolved in the water and Sohni drowned in the river. From the other side of the river, Mahiwal saw Sohni drowning and jumped into the river and drowned as well.

Sohni's Tomb

Sohni lies buried in Shahdapur, Sindh, some 75 km from Hyderabad, According to the legend the bodies of Sohni Mahiwal were recovered from the River Indus near this city and hence are buried there.

The love story of Sohni and Mahiwal has been the inpiration for numerous songs and poetry in, including Pathanay Khan's famous song "Sohni Gharay nu akha di mainu yaar milawa". An Indian film was also made with the name Sohni-Mahiwal(1984) starring Sunny Deol and Poonam Dhillon.

Kunwar Manohar and Madhumalati.A LOVE STORY

Ali Adil Shah II (1656-72 of Bijapur.He was a poet .Ali was called ‘ustad-e-alam.(his court poet Mohd. Nusrat ‘Nusrati’ who gave him this title)

His masterpiece is the long poem: ‘Gulshan-e-ishq’ (The Garden of Love) which is the love story of Kunwar Manohar and Madhumalati. In this Nusrati is considered at his descriptive best. There is a liberal use of similes and metaphors in the description of the beauty of Madhu Malati, and of palaces, landscapes, and ceremonies.

A LOVE STORY Yusuf & Zuleikha

Yusuf Entertained in Court Before His Marriage to Zuleikha.

Persian, 16th century

mirza and sahiban

THE EARLIEST WRITING ABOUT THE LOVE STORY OF MIRZA AND SAHIBAN IS AT THE TIME OF AURANGAZEB

Mirza Sahiba (Punjabi: ਿਮਰਜ਼ਾ ਸਾਹਿਬਾਂ, مرزا صاحباں, mirzā sāhibāṁ) is one of the four popular tragic romances of thePunjab . The other three are Heer Ranjha, Sassi Punnun and Sohni Mahiwal. Mirza Sahiba is one of the the classical Punjabi and Sindhi love stories just like Sassi Punnun, Heer Ranjha and Sohni Mahiwal.

Story

Mirza–Sahiban is a treasure of Punjabi literature. It is a romantic tragedy. Sahiban was a love-lorn soul. Shayer Pillo raves about her beauty and says," As Sahiban stepped out with a lungi tied around her waist, the nine angels died on seeing her beauty.

Mirza and Sahiban were cousins not childhood playmates,mirza was sahiba's mother's brother's son as mentioned in many books and folk tales in punjab, fell in love with each other. But when this beauty is about to be wedded forcibly to Tahar Khan by her parents, without any hesitation she sends a taunting message to Mirza, whom she loves, to his village Danabad, through a Brahmin called Kammu.

"You must come and decorate Sahiban’s hand with the marriage henna."

Mirza Khan was the son of Wanjhal Khan, the leader of the Kharal tribe in Danabad, a town in the Jaranwala area ofFaisalabad, Pakistan. Sahiba was the daughter of Mahni, the chief of Khewa, a town in Sial Territory in the Jhangdistrict Punjab,Pakistan. Mirza was sent to his relatives' house in Khewa to study, where he met Sahiba and they fell in love. Her family opposed the relationship, and instead arranged a marriage with a member of the Chadhar family.

This is the time you have to protect your self respect and love, keep your promises, and sacrifice your life for truth. Mirza arrived on his horse, Bakki the night before the wedding and secretly carried her away, planning to elope. Sahiba's brothers got to know about this and decided to follow them. On the way, as Mirza lies under the shade of a tree to rest for a few moments, Sahiba's brothers caught up with them.

Sahiba was a virtuous and a beautiful soul who did not desire any bloodshed to mar the one she loved. She did not want her hands drenched in blood instead of henna. She thinks Mirza cannot miss his target, and if he strikes, her brothers would surely die. Before waking up Mirza, Sahiban breaks his arrows so he can't use them. She presumes on seeing her, her brothers would feel sorry and forgive Mirza and take him in their arms. But the brothers attack Mirza and kill him. Sahiban takes a sword and slaughters herself and thus bids farewell to this world.

hir-ranjha a love story

The text opens in Jhang, a town in the Punjab on the river Chenab, and by introducing Chuchak, a leading sardar, or headman, of the Sials, a prominent clan of the area. Chuchak had four sons, and a younger daughter, Hir. Hir was raised with great affection. When she was nine years old, Hir was engaged to Seido of the Khera clan of Rangpur.

At this time, a boatman named Ludden came to Chuchak seeking work. Ludden had previously worked for the sardar Nooran Sambal, but left his employment because of an insult. Chuchak hired Ludden to provide rides to Hir and her friends (an entourage of 360 girls) on the Chenab river. Ludden’s boat was outfitted with a bed upon which no one but Hir was to sleep.

Nooran was enraged to learn that Ludden, who had been in his employment, now worked for Chuchak. Taking this as an insult, he demanded that Chuchak return Ludden to his service. When his demand was rejected, Nooran and his army of soldiers attacked Jhang, the home of the Sials. Hir and her friends took up arms and intercepted Nooran’s forces, fending off the attack. During the battle, twelve of Nooran’s men and nine of Hir’s friends were killed. When news of the battle spread, Hir’s brothers were enraged that she fought the intruders without informing them.

The story then moves to Takht Hazara. Ranjha was the youngest of Moju Chaudhry’s four sons. Ranjha’s mother died giving birth to him. While Ranjha was still a youth, Moju arranged his betrothal. Before the wedding took place, however, Moju died. After their father’s death, Ranjha’s brothers, ever jealous of him, taunted him until he finally left home. Ranjha spent his first night away from home in a mosque. There a village girl became entranced with Ranjha and wanted to marry him, but Ranjha escaped her advances.

The following day, Ranjha arrived at the banks of the river Chenab. He played his flute and the panj pir came to him and betrothed Hir to him. The panj pir also appeared to Hir in a dream and told her that she was destined for Ranjha. The following day Ranjha met Ludden. Ranjha mesmerized Ludden by playing his flute and received his permission to sleep in Hir’s bed. Hir was outraged when she found someone sleeping in her bed, and Ranjha fled. But Hir followed him. When the two finally met, they immediately fell in love and Hir took Ranjha to her home.

Chuchak took pity on Ranjha’s condition as a landowner’s son who had fallen on hard times. Chuchak vowed to keep Ranjha as his own son. Ranjha, however, only sought employment and was thus hired as a cowherd. Hir and Ranjha met clandestinely in the fields where Ranjha grazed her father’s buffaloes, and their love flourished. Over time, members of Hir’s family and her father’s brother Keido, in particular, began to suspect that Hir and Ranjha were in love. Rumors to this effect began to circulate in Jhang, but Hir’s parents ignored any insinuations of impropriety. Hir didn’t enjoy an amicable relationship with her uncle Keido, however. In his spite, Keido conspired one evening with Hir’s brothers to kill Ranjha. Keido and Hir’s brothers were thwarted by the panj pir who inflicted great punishment on them.

One day, Chuchak saw Hir and Ranjha’s illicit relationship with his own eyes. He immediately dismissed Ranjha and arranged for Hir to be married to her childhood fiancé, Seido of the Khera clan. In her bridal palanquin, Hir told Seido about Ranjha. At this, the Kheras resolved to kill Ranjha but again the panj pir intervened and saved him. At her in-laws home in Rangpur, Hir took no interest in her marriage. Blaming Ranjha for Hir’s insolent behavior, the Kheras again conspired to kill Ranjha. Ranjha, who had come to Rangpur with the wedding party, now left, going first to Jhang and then on to Takht Hazara where his fiancé was awaiting him. Yaqub Viraich, his father-in-law-to-be, questioned Ranjha about his intentions. Ranjha refused to marry Viraich’s daughter and she was betrothed elsewhere.

A character named Ramu Brahman came to Takht Hazara at this juncture with a message for Ranjha from Hir. Receiving this message, Ranjha went to Tilla Jogian where he was inducted into the Balnath yogi sect. He then went to Jhang and on to Rangpur in the guise of a yogi. At Rangpur, Ranjha camped outside the village. Sehti, Hir’s sister-in-law, learned of the relationship between Hir and Ranjha and agreed to help them. Sehti arranged a meeting for them by having Hir feign a snake bite for which the yogi’s assistance would be necessary. The lovers Hir and Ranjha met under this pretense and ran away together. The Kheras pursued them and Hir and Ranjha took refuge with the Nahar Jats. A fight ensued between Ranjha and the Kheras. Hir and Ranjha went to the qazi (Muslim cleric) of Kot Kabuli seeking justice. After listening to the entire affair, the qazi gave a verdict in favor of the Kheras. Hir was taken back to her in-laws’ home and Ranjha was sentenced to death. Before the verdict was carried out, an uncontrollable fire destroyed Kot Kabuli. The town’s residents interpreted the catastrophe as direct retribution for the verdict against Hir and Ranjha. Seeing the destruction of their town as divine sanction of Hir and Ranjha’s love, they insisted that Hir and Ranjha be reunited. Hir was returned to Ranjha and, at the end of the tale, the two head in the direction of Mecca.

Yusuf-Zulaikah by Hafiz Barkhurdar

Prince Yusuf is a slave of Princess Zulaikah who is married off to another lord. Yusuf is imprisoned for 12 years for his love for his master’s wife, whom he scrupulously keeps at decent distance. His knowledge to interpret Pharaoh’s dream gets him not only his release from prison, but also a princely position, whereas Zulaikah is turned out of her palace by her husband for loving Yusuf and is reduced to a beggar. Yusuf’s father Yaqoob regains his lost vision. He turns Zulaikah into a charming young houri from a hag by magical powers. Zulaikah’s husband dies and she ultimately marries her love, Yusuf. After sometime, Yusuf also dies. In agony of separation, Zulaikah faithfully follows him 13 days later.

Laila Majnu -In India

In India it is believed that Laila Majnu find refuge in a village in Rajasthan before breathing their last. That's what the The 'graves' of Laila and Majnu in Bijnore village of Rajasthan people of Bijnore village near Anupgarh in Sriganganagardistrict, have long believed. According to rural legend here, Laila and Majnu were from Sindh and escaped to these parts and died here. Hundreds of newlyweds and lovers form India and Pakistan despite there being no facilities for an overnight stay attend the two day fair in June.[ Laila-Majnu tomb now lies in Al-Hofuf a city in modern Saudi Arabia.]

Another slight differentiation in version includes: Laila and Majnu met in school. Majnu fell in love with Laila and was captivated by her. The school master would beat Majnu for paying attention to Laila instead of his school work. But some sort of magic happened. Majnu was beaten but Laila would bleed for his wounds. Word reached their households and their families feuded. Separated at childhood, Laila and Majnu met again in their youth. Laila's brother, Tazreb, would not let Laila shame the family name by marrying Majnu. Tazreb and Majnu quarreled and stricken with madness over Laila, Majnu murdered Tazreb. Word reached the village and Majnu was arrested. He was sentenced to be stoned to death by the villagers. Laila could not bear it and agreed to marry another man if Majnu would be kept safe from harm in exile. Laila got married but her heart longed for Majnu. Hearing this, Laila's husband rode with his men to the desert towards Majnu. He challenged Majnu to the death. It is said that the instant Laila's husband's sword pierced Majnu's heart, Laila collapsed in her home. Laila and Majnu were said to be burried next to each other as her husband and their fathers prayed to their afterlife. Myth has it, Laila and Majnu met again in heaven, where they loved forever

A sad true love Laila with Majnu story from arabia 670AD

Love is known to be an overwhelming, all-consuming, intense passi

n. But just how intense can love be? No one knows the answA scene from Nezami's adaptation of the story. Layla and Majnun meet for the last time before their deaths. Both have fainted and Majnun's elderly messenger attempts to revive Layla while wild animals protect the pair from unwelcome intruders. Late sixteenth century illustrationer,

A sad real love story of Reshma and Shera 1600'sRajastan,india

Reshma and Shera love each other in the midst of a violent feudal conflict between their clans. When their families find out about their relationship, Chotu, Shera's sharp shooting kid brother carries out his father's orders to kill Reshma's father and her recently married brother. Unable to bear the grief of the widowed bride (Raakhee), Shera kills his own father believing he actually pulled the trigger. Trying to save Shera from grief and destructive madness, Reshma marries Chotu. In the climax, Shera tries to redeem his patricidal act and commits suicide. Reshma also dies, rolling down a sand dune towards his dead body. A sandstorm comes to cover their bodies, united in death.

Jodhaa Akbar a true love story of 15 th century mughal india

Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a political marriage of convenience that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa.

Political success knew no bounds for Emperor Akbar . After having secured the Hindu Kush, he furthered his realm by conquest until his empire extended from Afghanistan to the Bay of Bengal, and from theHimalayas to the Narmada River. Through a shrewd blend of diplomacy, intimidation and brute force, Akbar won the allegiance of the Rajputs. This allegiance was not universal. Maharana Pratap and many other Rajputs always considered Akbar as a foreign invader. Maharana Pratap also banned inter marriages between Rajputs who had given their daughters to the Mughals and the ones who did not. But little did Akbar know that when he married Jodhaa a fiery Rajput princess, in order to further strengthen his relations with the Rajputs, he would in turn be embarking upon a new journey – the journey of true love.

The daughter of King Bharmal of Amer, Jodhaa resented being reduced to a mere political pawn in this marriage of alliance, and Akbar’s biggest challenge now did not merely lie in winning battles, but in winning the love of Jodhaa – a love hidden deep below resentment and extreme prejudice. Jodhaa-Akbar is their untold love story.