Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala

Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala is a classic fable in the Hazara region of modern day Pakistan. It tells the story of a Prince's love for a fairy; the name Saiful Malook refers to a lake in northern Pakistan.

Poetry

There is also a famous poem about the story written by the famous poet Mian Muhammad Baksh of Mirpur who wrote the classic story into poetic verse. The poem entitled Saif-Ul-Malook is written in the Potohari / Hindko language and very much popular in the Potohar, Kashmir, Hazarah regions of Northern Pakistan.

The story of Saif ul Maluk is that the Prophet Joseph (yosuf) is asked who will be the handomsomest man after him and he has two seals made, and says that the man will be my descendent and will inherit these seals, and so after many years when Saif ul Maluk comes of age and is bequeathed these seals among many other treasures, on one of them is a picture of himself and on the other is a picture of the beautiful fairy Princess Badar Jamal, meaning the glory of the moon, he falls in love and thus begins his long arduous journey to find her.Later when he does find her, he learns that her soul is trapped in the tallest mountain of the lake which is now called "Saif ul Maluk" and the mountain is "Malka Purbat" which means "the Mountain of the Fairies"and that she is bound to Jinn, and he can only free her when the Jinn is dead, but he cannot defeat him using ordinary means, for the Jinn has hidden his soul in talisman of some sort and hidden it away,Saiful Maluk and his army succeed in finding the talisman and killing the jinn but ignite a 40 year war between the jinn of the earth and those who dwell in the spirit world.

External links

* [http://www.saifulmalook.com Read and Listen Saif Ul Malook]
* [http://www.khyber.org/pashtolanguage/pashtostories/saifulmalook.shtml Khyber.org]
* [http://www.nwfp.gov.pk/AIS-browse_image.php?imageId=107 Picture of Lake Saif ul Malook]