Tradition has it that when our Shah Saaeiñ met the young Abdulwahhab, he pronounced a resounding foresight. He is also called ‘Aashkaar’, since this is the descriptive title that was effectively given to him by none other than the ruling moon of Sindh’s poetic galaxy, Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai.
With his birth-name Abdulwahhab Faruqi, Sachal has many other appellations, including Shayir-i-Haft Zabaan given his competence in seven languages, including Urdu. This linguistically variegated poet, who belonged to the depth of the rural Indus Valley, has been called ‘The Attar of Sindh’ - Attar being the rather well-known Central Asian Persian Sufi poet of Nishapur, who died some 600 years before Sachal.
The urs of the sonorous Sufi poet of the 18th-19th century, Sachal Sarmast, starts in just a few days on the 13th day of Ramazan, in the small, glowing village of Daraza Sharif near Khairpur.
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