ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>B&#256L&#362 HAS&#7750&#256 (1564-1660)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BLj,HASF,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279B&#256L&#362 HAS&#7750&#256 (1564-1660), Sikh preacher and the first head of a <i>dh&#363&#257&#7749</i> or branch of the Ud&#257s&#299 sect, was born the son of Pa&#7751&#7693it Hardatt and M&#257&#299 Prabh&#257 of Sr&#299nagar (Kashm&#299r) on 13 November 1564. His original name was B&#257l&#363. Accompanying his elder brother, &#256l&#363, better known as Bh&#257&#299 Almast, he came to Amritsar in 1604, to receive instruction from Gur&#363 Arjan. He devoted himself to the service of the Gur&#363. Of Gur&#363 Hargobind he was a constant companion. Even when the Gur&#363 went out for the chase, B&#257l&#363 would trot along on foot with him. Happy-go-lucky by temperament, he always bore a smile on his face so that the Gur&#363 gave him the appellation of Hasn&#257, lit. the laughing one. At the instance of Gur&#363 Hargobind, Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#363 Hasn&#257 joined B&#257b&#257 Gurditt&#257, the Gur&#363's eldest son and the spiritual successor of B&#257b&#257 Sr&#299 Chand, founder of the Ud&#257s&#299 sect. B&#257b&#257 Gurditt&#257 deputed him to preach the tenets of Sikhism in the Po&#7789hoh&#257r region (north-western Punjab) to which task he dedicated the remaining years of his life.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;B&#257l&#363 Hasn&#257 passed away at Pesh&#257war on 2 December 1660. His disciples carried on his work in western and southern Punjab, North-West Frontier Province and Sindh. Two of them, Bh&#257&#299 L&#257l D&#257s Dary&#257&#299 and Bh&#257&#299 J&#257do R&#257i, both Punjabi poets of merit, are said to have accompanied Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh to the South. Bh&#257&#299 L&#257l D&#257s took the baptism of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 and was renamed Prahil&#257d Si&#7749gh. One of the <i>rahitn&#257m&#257s</i> or the Sikh codes of conduct is ascribed to him. Another of the followers of Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#363 Hasn&#257, &#362dho D&#257s, served M&#257t&#257 Pañj&#257b Kaur, the widow of B&#257b&#257 R&#257m R&#257i, at Dehr&#257 D&#363n, and succeeded to the <i>gadd&#299</i> or seat after her death in April 1741. He constructed at Dehr&#257 D&#363n a <i>sam&#257dh</i> or mausoleum commemorating Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#363 Hasn&#257.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Ra&#7751dh&#299r Si&#7751gh, <i>Bh&#257&#299, Ud&#257s&#299 Sikh&#257&#7749 d&#299 Vithi&#257</i>. Amritsar, 1959<BR> <li class="C1"><i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Padam<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>