![]() His poetry is called Shruks that are poems in the rhyme structure of A-B, A-B. He also composed many poems on the pitfalls of the spiritual path and on the love of the devotee for God. He used his poetry as tool to spread the knowledge of the absolute and criticized the mullas and other pseudo-scholars and gave expression to the lives of the common people. Nund Rishi (‘Rishi’ meaning Kashmiri Sufi) or Shaikh Nur ud-din, as he was afterwards named, was born at Kaimuh, a village two miles to the west of Bijbihara in Kashmir in 1377. She was a bridge between Hindu mysticism and Sufism. ![]() Her two hundred vakhs are some of the oldest examples of Kashmiri written. She was treated with contempt by some and much reverence by others, seeing her as a saint and eventually as God-realized. It must have taken a lot of courage on her part to walk out of a marriage and to walk around unclothed as she did. She became a disciple of Siddha Srikanth. She was married at a young age but the marriage was a failure and she walked out at the age of twenty-four. ![]() Her vakhs (poems/sayings) are sung even today in Kashmir. THREE GREAT SUFI POETS OF KASHMIR Lalla Ded, Nund Rishi, Ghani Kashmiri Selected Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Lalla Ded is the famous female poet/saint from Kashmir who lived at exactly the same time as Hafiz of Shiraz (1320-1392).
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