The parents of Baba Bulleh Shah migrated from Uch to Pandoke where he received his early schooling. Along with many, he is an important name when it comes to Sufism and the role of Sufi saints in the spread of Islam in the Indian subcontinent. The ancestors of this great saint had migrated from Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan. He was born in 1680 in a village, Uch located in Bahawalpur, Punjab in today’s Pakistan. The original name of Baba Bulleh Shah was Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri.
