Fazal Shah Sayyad
Fazal Shah Syed was a 19th-century Punjabi poet known for his qissas on tragic romances, most notably Sohni Mahiwal, Heer Ranjha and Laila Majnu. Of this body of work, the poem Sohni Mahiwal "has been considered his best".
He was born in 1827 in Punjab during the Sikh rule and resided in Newan Kot, a suburb of Lahore where he died in 1890.