Makhdoom Bilawal Bin Jam Hassan Samo (), (Born 1451 AD/ 856 AH Sindh) was an Islamic jurisconsult,

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, and

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from

Sindh, Pakistan Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind or Scinde) is a province of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest provin ...

. He is also referred as Makhdum Bilal or Bilali Makhdum. He was disciple of the Shaykh Dost Ali Sistani. Dost Ali was direct disciple of

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Life

Makhdoom Makhdoom (, meaning ''one who is served'' and sometimes spelled Makhdum,) is an Arabic word meaning "Teacher of Sunnah." It is a title and group of Pirs, and landlords in South and Central Asia. People with the title Makhdoom * Makhdoom Yahya M ...

Bilawal was ordered to be crushed alive in a seed

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after the Battle of Talti for opposing the conquest of

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by Arguns on 30 Safar 929AH/1522 AD.

Poetry

He said poems in

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and

Sindhi language Sindhi ( ; or , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by more than 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status, as well as by 1.7 million people in India, where it is a Scheduled languages of India, schedu ...

s. One of his Persian

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reads as follows:

Shrine of Makhdum Bilawal

His

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is at 'Baghban' near the town of Dadu, Sindh, Pakistan. According to the article of Aamir Sindhi Ali Wagan, the

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at his

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was constructed by one of his devotees

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Sakhi Mahboob Khan Wagan (Chief Sardar of Wagan Tribe).

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* 1451 births 1523 deaths Sufi poets Sindhi people Sindhi warriors Sindhi-language poets Sufism in Sindh {{Pakistan-writer-stub