SUMMARY ON SACHAL SARMAST SUFI SONG HE CAME TO KNOW HIMSELF A SUMMARY PAPER TO KNOW 1 DEEPER ABOUT THIS POEM AND A POET BY; NIDA MAHMOEDSACHAL SARMAST HE WAS BORN IN 1739 AT DARAZA SHARIF, A FEW KILOMETERS FROM RANIPUR. THE POETOS FATHER PASSED AWAY WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG, AFTER WHICH HIS UNCLE (FATHERDS YOUNGER BROTHER) LOOKED AFTER HIM AND PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN HIS UPBRINGING. BEFORE DRIVING INTO THE SUMMARY OF SACH SARMATOS SUFI SONGS, | WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN OLOVED IN PERSIAN SUFI POETRY, THE WORD “LOVE’ ["ISHIQ] MEANS A LOVE WITH GOD. AND IN THE PATHS OF SUFISM THAT VIEW THE MYSTIC SEEKER AS THE LOVER AND GOD AS THE BELOVED, IT MEANS A TRUE DERVISH. THEREFORE, “THE LOVERS” ARE THE LOVERS OF GOD. SO IN THIS SENSE SACHAL SARMAT CERTAINLY WAS “(SPIRITUAL) LOVERS.” HIS POETRY OF DIVINE LOVE IS IN SEVEN LANGUAGES -- SINDHI, SERAIKI, PERSIAN, PUNJABI, ARABIC, URDU AND HINDI -- GIVING HIM THE TITLE OF SHAIR-I-HAFT ZUBAN (POET OF SEVEN LANGUAGES). HE COMPOSED POETRY IN ALL POETICAL GENRES, INCLUDING KAFIS, BAITS, GHAZALS, MASNAVIS, SI HARFIS, MUSTAZAD, HAMD, JHOOLNA, GHAROLI, MUSADDAS, MUKHAMMAS, DIWAN-I-ASHKAR AND DARD NAMA. WHEN POETIC INSPIRATION CAME, SACHAL SARMAT WOULD BE IN A_ STATE OF TRANCE. TEARS WOULD FLOW FROM HIS EYES. THE HAIR ON HIS HEAD WOULD STAND ERECT; HE WOULD BE IN A STATE OF ECSTASY.HE CAME TO KNOW HIMSELF HE CAME TO KNOW HIMSELF NAUGHT ELSE HAD HE IN VIEW TO BE ABLE TO REALIZE THIS HE GOT ENMESHED IN LOVE HE ALIGHTED FROM HIGH HEAVEN TO POUR A CASCADE OF LOVE BECAME MANSUR TO MOUNT THE GALLOWS JUST TO HAVE HIS HEAD CUT OFF. HE TREADED THE BAZAARS OF EGYPT JUST TO BE SOLD FOR A SLAVE SACHU SPEAKS THE BARE TRUTH TO SPEAK OF HIS SOJOURN ON EARTH.