Bulleh Shah: If the divine is found through ablutions

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If the divine is found through ablutions

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by Bulleh Shah
(1680 - 1758) Timeline

English version by
Fuad Usman Khan

Original Language
Punjabi

Muslim / Sufi

18th Century

If the divine is found through ablutions
surely frogs and fish would find him first
if the divine is hidden in jungles
the cattle would have discovered him by now
O Bulleh, the divine is found by those
with pure and true heart

Themes

Heart

Recommended Books

	Baba Bulleh Shah: Music CD, by Abida Parveen
	Bulleh Shah: A Selection Rendered Into English Verse, by Bulleh Shah
	Bulleh Shah: The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast (Mystics of the East series), by J. R. Puri / Tilaka Raja Puri
	Saint Bulleh Shah, by K.S. Duggal

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