HAZRAT SULTAN BAHOO’S PUNJABI POETRY AND CONCEPTS FOR INNER PURIFICATION, GLOBAL PEACE AND HARMONY

Abstract

This study of Hazrat Sultan Bahoo’s Punjabi poetry and concepts of inner purification discusses about the Hazrat Sultan Bahoo’s Punjabi poetry and concepts for the inner purification of mankind. The concepts of peace and harmony from Hazrat Sultan Bahoo’s poetry and teachings have also been described in this study. The study presented a view that modern world is facing different type of discriminations and societal imbalance including religious, sectarian, ethnic, territorial, linguistic and other differences in society. The globalization of the world and modernization of communication gadgets enhanced the impacts of discriminatory ideologies and there is need to discourage discriminatory approaches. The Sufi literature, especially Hazrat Sultan Bahoo’s Punjabi Abyats, provides the opportunities to train the mankind with Hazrat Sultan Bahoo’s concepts of love, humanity, harmony, and relationship with divinity. The study is done by using the qualitative content analysis technique and concluded that Hazrat Sultan Bahoo’s Abyat has inculcated with beautiful balanced slant of spirituality and modernization which may be helpful to enhance harmony and peace in global world.