I Have Become Ranjha
رانجھا رانجھا کردی
Bulleh Shah, kafi · Punjabi
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رانجھا رانجھا کردی نی میں آپے رانجھا ہوئی سدو مینوں دھیدو رانجھا، ہیر نہ آکھو کوئی
Ranjha Ranjha kardi ni main aape Ranjha hoi Saddo mainu Dhido Ranjha, Heer na aakho koi
"Chanting "Ranjha, Ranjha," I have myself become Ranjha — call me Dhido Ranjha now, let no one call me Heer."
Bulleh Shah takes Punjab's most famous love story — Heer's love for Ranjha — and turns it inside out: say the beloved's name enough, with enough devotion, and the lover dissolves into the beloved entirely. This is the hinge the whole site turns on — a Sufi poet using the language of ishq-e-majazi (human romance) to describe ishq-e-haqiqi (annihilation of the self in God, fana).