Mast Tawakali

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Mast Tawakali

He was an activist against British rule of India. His ant-colonial ideology was often a subject of his poetry. He was revered as promoting a message of love, peace, tolerance, and fraternity.^[3]

Early life and marriage

Tawakali was born in about 1825 in Mank Band, near Kahan in Kohlu at the time of Afghan rule over northern Balochistan. His father, Lal Khan, named him Sohrab, but later, this name was changed because it because of its alleged infringement on that of their ruler. He belonged to the Loharani (Sherani) branch of the Marri tribe. Before writing poetry, he was a shepherd.^{[4] [5]}

At the age of 28, he met a married woman named Samoo, when seeking refuge from a storm, upon seeing her it is reported that he fell in love, immediately.^[6] After that night, he spent his entire life like a vagabond and known as Mast Tawakali meaning "Nobody cares" and started his poetry.

It became his routine to sit near the same hamlet once and again to catch a glimpse of Samoo. Over this, the villagers turned harsh to him and asked him not to visit the same hamlet again and again, but this word did not have an effect on Mast. Having become tired of Tawakali, Samoo's husband took her and left the village forever. After this, in his eyes, Mast had no purpose as he could not see his beloved Samoo, any longer. He devoted his life to God and spent his most of his life in a shrine composing poetry and praying for Samoo.

Dr. Shah Muhammad Marri writes, "Mast was a mystic and a great lover. Once, the husband of Samoo, along with other villagers, wanted to kill him to get rid of him. They pushed him from a hilltop, with wonders, nothing happened to him. Once a train was on the way track, the track was broken that the train had no information about this and reaching nearer to the broken-track position, the train stopped because Mast had blown a red scarf."

Later years and death

He left everything for his love and started poetry. This love of human being ascends to God, thus he went from virtual love to

" Nindo;n Kahan a Bisagho'n Kohaani Marri; Wa Raza Beeso Bahanaghe Samoo e Kuth ey" (I am an ordinary Marri of Kahan, not speak of my status, It was God and His acceptance I earned, Samoo was a mere means). He died at the age of 67, some 27 years after Samoo's death.

Shrine

He died in 1892 at Pazza , Kohlu. He was buried in Mast Maidan Gari, District Kohlu ,Balochistan.^[8] There is Tomb of Mast Tawakali as you enter the shrine. A mosque has also built on the compound.

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