Heer Ranjha is the classic Punjabi tragic romance, and the version attributed to Waris Shah (c. 1722–1798) is the one most readers still mean when they say “Heer.” Written in the mid-18th century, the epic follows Heer of Jhang and her love for the wandering Ranjha, against family honour, social barriers, and a fatal ending that turned the tale into a shared cultural reference across Punjab. Waris Shah’s poem is valued for its spoken Punjabi idiom, village detail, and Sufi undertones—less a court showpiece than a people’s story that kept being copied, recited, and printed.
This FindPK archive keeps the complete Cyber City Online scan set of Waris Shah’s Heer: a portrait of the poet and every manuscript page from the old Poetry Net gallery. Scroll the images below in reading order.
