Lillah Arifa

Lailla Arifa

Lall Ded (Mother Lalla) is the loving epithet which the Kashmiri people use for her. Spanning a period of seven centuries, Lalla Arifa has remained a revered symbol: the fountainhead of the Kashmiri language, poetry and Sufi thought. Lalla renounced the traditional hierarchy of her forbears and soon became known as a rebel and iconoclast in a society where anarchy ruled in an internecine struggle between the priesthood and powerful landlords.