The Seven Queens

The folktales of Sind are numerous and have many fantastical elements. Lal Shahbaz, born Hazrat Sayad Usman Shah Marwandi in Afghanistan in A.H. 538, dropped his kishta, or begging bowl, into the water, and it became a boat. When he and his friends were attacked by a baker's wife who claimed - falsely - that one of their party, Sheikh Farid Shakar Ganj, had tried to outrage her, the saint changed one of his friends into a deer and another into a lion. He then transformed himself into a per...