LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Saif-ul-Malook: Translated Verses

Kaneez Fatima Syeda

Introduction

Saif-ul-Malook (1863) is a Punjabi epic written by Mian Muhammad Buksh, Punjabi sufi poet of eastern Punjab. His mystic vision of life encompasses the very somber themes and great realities of universe in general and life in particular. His versified tale “Saif-ul- Malook” celebrates the eternal love and celestial union of Prince Saif-ul-Malook, the Egyptian prince with “ Shah Peri” (Queen of fairies)whose real name was Badi-ul-Jamal. The prince happens to see the picture of the fairy on an old sovereign stamp and falls in love with her.

After a long series of trials and toils the prince reaches the fairy and weds her. Mian Muhammad Buksh has described the tale in symbolical and allegorical stance. The Fairy in the tale symbolizes the “Eternal Truth”. The prince in search for the fairy is symbolical of man’s quest for the “Eternal Truth” or “ Ultimate Reality” where he reaches only with the “ Recipience of Divine illumination”. I have ventured to translate the selected verses of the epic in English to make it available for universal reading.

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Kaneez Fatima Syeda
Assistant Professor of English
G C (w) Jhang, Punjab (Pakistan)

M.Phil. Scholar
G C University Faisalabad (Pakistan)
kaneezfatimasyeda@gmail.com
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