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LAILA & MAJNOO
Majnoo and laila met and fell in love at a school in Damascus.when laila,s parents diacovered this they forbid her from meeting majnoo and confined her in the house.unable to bear this separation majnoo lost his mind and began roaming the streets in search of his lost love. Majno,s papa appealed to laila,s parents to allow them to be married but they refused to let their daughter marry a lunatic.frantic laila also failed to convince her family that majno,s madness was only caused by her separation and would be cured upon their reunion.her marriage was arranged elsewhere,and desperate lailacommitted suicide. At the instant her breath left her body majno,s heart stopped beating too.the lovers who could not live together died together as a final proof of their true love
SHIRIN & FARHAD
This romance blossomed in iran where there was a brave stonecutter named farhad,who loved a princess named shirin,who also loved him dearly. The king was indignant at this discovery and devised a cunning plot.he proposed that farhad would have to prove his love by digging a forty mile canal in the rockiest land among the hills, and this canal should sprout not water,but milk. Farhad set out with his spade to accomplish this im possible feat and laboured for years till he finally triumphed.upon discovering the failure of his scheme the desperate king sent a messenger to inform farhad that shirin was dead.such was farhad,s grief that he cut open his head with his spade.when shirin came to meet her victorious lover she found him lying dead.in despair she struck herself with the same spade and joined her wronged love in death
HEER & RANJHA
Ranjha was a spoiled younger brother of four merchant,s who lived in panjab. After an argument with his bros,he left home and traveled to a village where he met heer , the daughter of a rich farmer.ranjha paved his way into heer,s heartwith the mesmerizing tunes of his flute.her covetous uncle,kedo discovered their secret and heer was forced into marriage with another man. The heart broken ranjha wandered as a penniless jogi till he found her. They eloped and the maharajhah upon hearing their tale dissolved heer,s marriage,allowing her to marry ranjha.on the wedding day kedo dealt another evil blow and fed heer a poisonous ladoo.ranjha arrived to find his ladylove taking her last breaths.consumed with grief he ate remaining ladoo and joined her in death
NOORI & JAMTAMACHI
Jam tamachi the ruler of sindh that fell in love with noori the beautiful daughter of a fisherman he wooed her and carried her away to live in his palace as his queen but the lovely nooriaccustomed to a humbler
Life felt stifled in the lavish courts living in accordance with rigid royal rules she began to pine for her hut on the water,s edge and the simple pleasures of her old life jamtamachi tried desperately to make noori happy with the riches of his kingdom but failed unable to bear the sight of his laughing love turn into a melancholy queen he decided to left her return to her home his love for noori was so great that he abdicated his throne and became a simple fisherman they lived a long and happy life and jamtamachi never regretted his sacrifice
SASUI & PUNHOON
Sasui the beautiful daughter of a dhobi of bhambhore (sindh) ans punhoon the prince of makran(baluchistan) fell in love with each other punhoon, family were enraged to hear that their son wished to marry a dhobi,s daughter so his brothers came to bhambhore and drugged him in order to take him back to makran a distraught sasui went after punhoon running barefoot along the treacherous deserts surviving various hardships she came across a nomad who tried to molest her sasui prayed to mother earth to save her honour in answer to her prayer the deserts opened up under her feet and sasui was buried under the sand on gaining consciousness punhoon escaped and on his way back to bhambhore he came across that ill-fated spot her recognized the hem of sasui,s garment that peeked from under the sand marking her grave punhoon brgged to be united with his love and miraculously the earth split open at that very spot and punhoon fell into his dead love,s embrace
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