♫ Qissa Sohni Mahiwal — Aashiq Jatt
Qissa Sohni Mahiwal is a Punjabi song, sung by Aashiq Jatt. Using the player below, you can download or listen to the mp3 online.
Duration: 60 minutes / Size: 27.2MB
Sohni was the daughter of a potter named Tula, who lived in Punjab near the banks of the Chenab River. As soon as the Surahis (water pitchers) and mugs came off the wheels, she would draw floral designs on them and transform them into masterpieces of art.
Izzat Biag, the rich trader form Balakh Bukhara, came to Hindustan on business but when he saw the beautiful Sohni he was completely enchanted. Instead of keeping mohars (gold coins) in his pockets, he roamed around with his pockets full of love. Just to get a glimpse of Sohni he would end up buying the water pitchers and mugs everyday.
Sohni lost her heart to Izzat Baig. Instead of making floral designs on earthenware she started building castles of love in her dreams. Izzat Baig sent off his companions to Balakh Bukhara. He took the job of a servant in the house of Tula, the potter. He would even take their buffaloes for grazing. Soon he was known as Mahiwal (potter).
When the people started spreading rumors about the love of Sohni and Mahiwal, without her consent her parents arranged her marriage with another potter.
Suddenly, one day his barat (marriage party) arrived at the threshold of her house. Sohni was helpless and in a poignant state. Her parents bundled her off in the doli (palanquin), but they could not pack off her love in any doli (box).
Izzat Baig renounced the world and started living like a fakir (hermit) in a small hut across the river. The earth of Sohni’s land was like a dargah (shrine) for him. He had forgotten his own land, his own people and his world. Taking refuge in the darkness of the night when the world was fast asleep Sohni would come by the riverside and Izzat Baig would swim across the river to meet her. He would regularly roast a fish and bring it for her. It is said that once due to high tide he could not catch a fish, so he cut a piece of his thigh and roasted it. Seeing the bandage on his thigh, Sohni opened it, saw the wound and cried.
From the next day Sohni started swimming across the river with the help of an earthen pitcher as Izzat Baig was so badly wounded, he could not swim across the river. Soon spread the rumors of their romantic rendezvous. One-day Sohni’s sister-in-law followed her and saw the hiding place where Sohni used to keep her earthen pitcher among the bushes. The next day her sister-in-law removed the hard baked pitcher and replaced it with an unbaked one. At night when Sohni tried to cross the river with the help of the pitcher, it dissolved in the water and Sohni was drowned. From the other side of the river Mahiwal saw Sohni drowning and jumped into the river.
This was Sohni’s courage, which every woman of Punjab has recognized, applauded in songs: “Sohni was drowned, but her soul still swims in water…”
Thanks for the story … but why it so simmilar to Heer Ranjha … except the ending …
Aslam O Alikum…
can you please upload Sohni By Sufi Azmat (Poet) From Gujrat and he was from Gujrat
Sir,
Heer Ranjha is very different story and the background of that Heer Ranjha dosent had any similarity with this story except both Ranjha and Mahiwal came from an other soil.
That,s the great n actual story…thnks bro 4 uploading it.
Hey…Asad…..I recomend u 2 pls read the complete story of heer n ranjha…….
except the servant,s role….nothing is similar…….thanks 4 ur appreciation.
pls read the complete story of heer ranjha……nothing similar in that except the servant,s role………thanks bro 4 ur appreciation.
kisi bhai k pass is k 2nd part ho to bataye plz becoz ye total 120 minutes ka hay
GOOD AND BEST
Wonderful story. I have listened live Late Aashiq sb in early sixties in Gujrat during Shah Jehangir’s and Kaanwan Wali Sarkar’s Urses (Mellas). Late Aashiq Jutt’s presentation in those days had been very moving and sould throbing. It has sufiana kalam, pure music, hijr and natural background.
All the characters having vital lessons to learn and to apply in our practical life. God bless you Late Aashiq Jutt sb.
Fazal Jutt son of Late Aashiq sb should present such stories with same music.
wah wah ji kya bat hai kya awaz hai or kya dastan hai ji khus karta ji……………………………
nice poetry
very good site
thanks
asghara ali tarar of hafizabad
PUNJAB PUNJAB AH, SOHNI SHAIRY , SONRE SINGER
Please add this very famous folk of Aashiq Jatt. Manon par langhade we kharia minthan therian kerdi
Sab he acha thakee thakee kalam qissa sohni mahiwal wha wha. muger ghara khaan hay itnay intazar k bad ghara nain hy,, please add karian ghara ko..
thanks ..
qayyum Saudi Arabia
really wonderful. heart touching
Hats off to you guys, u have done a great deed for folk music and folk lovers. without folk punjab todays generation would have never been able to know the true legends of sufi and folk music. Unparalleled collection.
how could i down load the yousaf zulaikha and other songs of the great jutt
main devana hn in kalams ka
REALLY WONNDERFUL HEART HING I AAM DO TO 60 YEARS BALCK .
voice is v nice,purely punjab loak geet style,a great source for those who are interested in punjab folk lores
this is a super story .i like it very much .can you upload a song of ashiq mannu par laga day vay?
folk punja very good
folk punjab is the best for those who dont know punjabi calture i love the site please upload even DAIM poetry,
Ashiq Hussain will be best remembered for this Qissa Sohnee Mahiwaal as its excellently done although it does sometimes drag on a little bit. The Qissa does keep you interested through-out the whole version
ZABARDAST,GREAT QISSA,AND GREAT PUNJAB.
ashiq jutt sb ka ye qissa mai sun sun k sunta rehta hu
Nice qassa
I like this beautiful story of love
ballay jatt di jatt bradri da fakhar nal aoucha ker dita way
Fantastic pure Punjabi Song sung by Ashiq Jatt,the Punjabi which is spoken and written(Lahore/Amritsar distt)God Bless Punjabi Language and Punjabi Songs/Poetry
Sohial abid shab ap ko mera slam ho
that is the suprb love both of ……… not that was true love b\c that is the true love… which is still alive among us
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the suprb love both of ……… not that was true love b\c that is the true love… which is still alive among us
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Excellent punjabi artist, iwas named after ashiq jatt
a bundle of thx ashiq jatt
i like song sonimahiwal
vary good geet (chicago america se )
wah..Gujjreya hoya oh hassen jamaana yaad aa gaya….Nice story & well sung.
wa g wa
fantastic ( don’t have instead)