Died 27 August 1988 | ||
Lala Sahib Aragami a well known Saint and Sufi Poet who lived a humble life in Aragam Village Of Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir. He was born on 11 March 1923 and lived up to 27 August 1988. Almost all of his poetry is in Kashmiri language most of which is being sung by Sufi Singers.
A shrine has been built at his ancestral home which is being thronged by his disciples and followers all around the year. And his annual Urs is celebrated every year on 6th and 7th of May which is attended by a huge number of people from different parts of the Kashmir Valley.
In one of his Kashmiri couplets, he exhorts a Kashmiri Pandit girl to have unrestrained devotion for her God as her favourite deity i.e. enshrined in the stone idol itself,
About Argam Bata Koori Vate Kanie Manj Chuai Dai, Karee Pooja, Yinai Mushravak Lai.