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Heer Waris Shah is a romantic tale written by Waris Shah in 1766, based on the true account of two star-crossed lovers who lived during the 16th century1. It is said that Waris Shah sublimated his own unrequited love for a girl in writing the romance1. The book vividly manifests the struggle of Heer for her right to love in a patriarchal society2. Waris Shah was deeply learned in Sufi and domestic cultural lore, and his depiction of the story of romantic love is a poetic expression of the mystical love of the human soul towards God3.