Shrine of Sachal Sarmast

Standing in front of Shrine Sachal Sarmast

The shrine of Sachal Sarmast is locate in the Province of Sindh district Khairpur, Pakistan. He was a Sufi Poet and wrote his poetry in seven languages, included Sindhi, Siraiki, Persian, Urdu, Balochi, Punjabi and Arabic. Sachal Sarmast was born in 1739 in Daraza near Ranipur. His real name was Abdul Wahab Farooqi and his nick name was Sachal. He was living in era of Kalhoro and Talpur who were ruling in Sindh.

Sachal Sarmast lived his life simple, has long hair, soft beard. He did not smile much. He usually wear simple clothes like white shirt with waist he used to wear green skullcap and wrap green turban around the cap and also blue color trouser. He died in 1825 at the age of 86 and had great love of his music and beauty.

I went to his shrine saw structure of shrine is so beautiful and has blue tiles works which makes it more attractive. Thousand of visitor come and visit this shrine every year. Shrine consist of medium size four minar, four small size minar and one big dome in center. There are many other graves outside the shrine.

Stunning view of Shrine Sachal Sarmast.

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