Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri, known popularly as Baba Bulleh Shah and Bulleya, was a 17th and 18th-century Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformer and a Sufi poet, universally regarded as the "Father of Punjabi Enlightenment". He spoke against powerful religious, political and social institutions. He lived and was buried in Kasur.
Image: Bulleh Shah's Shrine
Image: Grave of Hazrat Baba Bulleh Shah
Image: Bulleh Shah's grave
Image: Bullay Shah ibsisayndija 2
Kasur is a city to the south of Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The city serves as the headquarters of Kasur District. Kasur is the 16th largest city in Punjab and 24th largest in Pakistan, by population. It is also known for being the burial place of the 17th-century Sufi-poet Bulleh Shah. It is farther west of the border with neighboring India, and bordered to Lahore, Sheikhupura and Okara Districts of Punjab. The city is an aggregation of 26 fortified hamlets overlooking the alluvial valleys of the Beas and Sutlej rivers.
Kasur Museum on the Lahore–Kasur Road
The hilltop shrine of Shah Kamal Chisti is a popular shrine in Kasur.
Refugees at Balloki, Kasur during the Partition of British India in 1947
