Lake Saiful Muluk Story

Saiful Muluk (Urdu: جھیل سیف الملوک‎)is a mountainous lake located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley (34°52′37.34″N 73°41′37.71″E), near the town of Naran.[1] It is in the north east of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. At an altitude of 3,224 m (10,578 feet) above sea level it is amongst one of the highest lakes in Pakistan. There is also a similar named fictional story associated with the lake. The weather here is moderate during day time while the temperature drops to minus degrees at night. A fairy tale called Saiful Muluk, written by the famous Sufi poet Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, is associated with the lake.[6] It is the story of the prince of Persia who fell in love with a fairy princess at the lake named.[7] The impact of the lake's beauty is of such extent that people believe that fairies come down to the lake in the full moon. A poet and writer from Balakot Ahmed Hussain Mujahid wrote the story of Saiful Muluk in prose depicting the local version. But it is a strong view point of scholars that this lack had no links with real story of Saif Ul Muluk because this tale had Arabic origin and first time it was included in Dastan Alif Laila الف لیلی. It was a shortest tale which covers only one and half page of aforesaid book. Mian Muhammad Bukhsh in his Mathnviمثنوی سفرالعشق المعروف قصہ سیف الملوکused all characters and places from Arabic areas and society. The locals took all plot from this Mathnvi and claims its origin to this area which is totally sic and false.