Part of the Hindu wedding ceremony involves the bride and groom making offerings to the sacred fire, and walking around the fire to finalize their marriage. And of course, the priest is supposed to chant blessings on the couple. Since Dulla wasn’t a priest, nor even Hindu (he was Muslim), he didn’t know the proper prayers, so he sang a nonsense song instead. It became folklore.
سندر مندریئے ہو!
تیرا کون وچار ہو!
دُلا بھٹی والا ہو!Sunder mundriye ho!
Tera kaun vicharaa ho!
Dullah Bhatti walla ho!
Dullhe di dhee vyayae ho!
Ser shakkar payee ho!
Kudi da laal pathaka ho!
Kudi da saalu paata ho!
Salu kaun samete!
Chacha gali dese!
Chache choori kutti! zamidara lutti!
Zamindaar sudhaye!
Bum Bum bhole aaye!
Ek bhola reh gaya!
Sipahee far ke lai gaya!
Sipahee ne mari itt!
Bhaanvey ro te bhaanvey pitt!
Sanoo de de Lohri, te teri jeeve jodi!
(Laugh,cry or howl!)Translation:
Beautiful girl
Who will think about you
Dulla of the Bhatti clan will
Dulla’s daughter got married
He gave one ser of sugar!
The girl is wearing a red suit!
But her shawl is torn!
Who will stitch her shawl?!
The uncle made choori!
The landlords looted it!
Landlords are beaten up!
Lots of simple-headed boys came!
One simpleton got left behind!
The soldier arrested him!
The soldier hit him with a brick!
(Cry or howl)!
Give us Lohri, long live your pair (to a married couple)!
Whether you cry, or bang your head later!
This song is sung in Punjab every Lohdi as children go home to home to collect peanuts, rewdi, gachak etc.
This tomb in Lahore is of Abdullah Bhatti whose folk tales are sung at Lohri in Punjab.
Finally, he was caught treacherously and hanged outside the Lahore kotwali in 1599. Today even after centuries his feats are being celebrated on Lohri by Hindu and Sikh Punjabis of East Punjab, while Muslims of West Punjab, who share his faith, his land his blood have no idea who he was. This couplet of Shah Hussain said on the eve of the martyrdom of Dullah still resonates in the winds of Punjab
کہے حسین فقیر سائیں دا، تخت نہ ملدے منگے
The Daring Son of Pindi Bhattian (Distt Hafizabad, Punjab), Bhatti was the ancestor of 40 gotras in Punjab: Rajput, Gujjar, and Jatt clans. There are many claimants:
Claim: Dulla Bhatti was a Rajput warrior
Abdullah Bhatti Gurjar, a great Rajput, son of the soil who fought with the intruders and foreign invaders. The great hero of Punjab Pindi Bhattian Pakistan. He belonged to the warrior-like Rajput clan of Bhattis.
Claim: Abdullah Bhatti hails from a Jatt clan
There is no such thing called Rajput since Raja’s son or “putt” is called Rajput; it could be anybody. Bhatti is a Rajput and Jat clan name of undivided Punjab too – a title of the Sikh Maharaja of Patiala is Bhatti Kul Gaurav (pride of the Bhatti clan).
