His funeral prayer was led by Qazi Hafiz Syed Zahid Hamdani, a great religious personality of Kasur. He was declared non-Muslim by a few literalist ' Mullah' of Kasur and they had claimed it was prohibited to offer the funeral prayer of Bulleh Shah due to Kufr fatwa (allegations) put on him by extremists. He died in 1757, at the age of 77 and was buried in Kasur, where he had spent most of his life. After his early education, he went to Lahore where he met Inayat Arian, and became his disciple. Some historians claim that Bulleh Shah received his education at a highly reputed madrassa run by Hafiz Ghulam Murtaza where he taught for some time after his graduation. It is confirmed that he received his higher education in Kasur. Most sources confirm that Bulleh Shah had to work as a child and adolescent herder in the village. Bulleh Shah was schooled by his father, along with the other children of the village. Later, when Bulleh Shah was six years old, his family moved to Pandoke, which is 50 miles southeast of Kasur. Due to uncertain reasons, he had to move to Malakwal, a village of Sahiwal. īulleh Shah's father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was well-versed in Arabic, Persian, and the Quran. After his early education, he went to Lahore where he met Inayat Qadri, and became his disciple. Bulleh Shah was an eminent scholar of Arabic and Persian. His first spiritual teacher was Shah Inayat Qadiri, a Sufi murshid of Lahore. He was a descendant of prophet Muhammad through Sayeed Jalaluddin Bukhari.

He was born around 1680 in Uch, Multan province, Mughal Empire (present day Punjab, Pakistan). He was also a 'revolutionary' poet who spoke against powerful religious, political and social institutions He lived and was buried in Kasur in present day Pakistan. He was a mystic poet and is universally regarded as 'The Father of Punjabi Enlightenment'. Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri ( Punjabi: سید عبداللہ شاہ قادری ( Shahmukhi) ਸੱਈਦ ਅਬਦੁੱਲਾਹ ਸ਼ਾਹ ਕ਼ਾਦਰੀ ( Gurmukhi) 1680–1757), known popularly as Baba Bulleh Shah (or Bullhe Shah) ( Punjabi: بُلّھے شاہ ( Shahmukhi) ਬੁੱਲ੍ਹੇ ਸ਼ਾਹ ( Gurmukhi)) and Bulleya, was a Punjabi philosopher, reformer and Muslim Sufi poet during 17th-century Punjab.

Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shāh