Sharif Sabir, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Punjabi scholar, poet and educationist
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About Sharif Sabir
- Shaikh Muhammad Sharif Sabir (Urdu: ???? ??????; 18 May 1928 – 1 October 2015), better known as Sharif Sabir, was a Punjabi scholar, poet, researcher and educationist who is widely known for editing the most authentic version of Heer Waris Shah published in 1985.
- It took him over ten years to complete this work.
- Earlier, he had already written a book of poetry and edited Puran Bhagat of Qadir Yar, and translated parts of Gulistan and Bustan of Saadi Shirazi into Punjabi.
- He edited Sultan Bahu’s poetry collection Abiat-e-Bahu, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh's monumental work of Saiful Muluk, the poetry of Bulleh Shah and had just completed editing of the poetry of Baba Farid before his demise.
- Being also a scholar of Persian and Arabic, he undertook a Herculean translation of Ali Hajweri Gunj Bakhsh’s Kashf ul Mahjoob from Persian to Urdu.
- He was commissioned by the Punjab Auqaf Department.
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