[1][2][3] The story depicts the lives of Baloch heroes and their emotions, Culture, exploring philosophical ideas such as God, evil, predestination.
The protagonist of the story, Sheh Mureed (or Shaih Moreed), and the heroine, Hani, are symbols of pure and tragic love.
The story dates back to the 15th century, considered to be the heroic age of Balochistan and the classical period of Balochi literature.
Since a Muslim Balochistani Baloch woman traditionally never appears before her betrothed before the wedding, Mir Chakar and Sheh Murid decide to visit each other's fiancées.
However, when Mir Chakar went to Hani, Sheh Murid's fiancée, she brought him clean water in a silver bowl in which she has placed dwarf palm leaf, properly washed.
[6] Some time later, Mir Chakar organized a gathering where poets put forward poetry of heroes.
At last came the turn of Sheh Murid, who, madly in love with Hani, pledged that if anyone asked for anything in his possession on his wedding day, he would give it.
Full of wrath, Jado unsheathes his sword and smites the head of his innocent son in the presence of all the Rind nobles.
[4] But Murid was so shaken by this turn of events that he abandoned his former life and passed the days and nights in worship of Allah.
The scandalous news of Murid's love for Mir Chakar's wife became the talk of every household in Balochistan.
In the company of a band of beggars he passed himself off as an anonymous mendicant begging for alms at the palace of Mir Chakar Khan Rind.
At first the Rind nobles treated him with a certain amount of disdain on account of his shabby appearance, laughing at him and asking how a mendicant clad in tattered clothes could bend a bow and hit a target.
They sent someone to fetch Murid Khan's bow, which was made out of steel and was called jug (yoke) because of its form and weight.
The epic tells us that this famous weapon had been tossed in a pen for sheep and goats after the "master of the iron bow" had departed and it had no owner to care for it.
When it was turned over to him, Sheh Murid caressed and kissed it, gently touching the strings as if they belonged to a sacred instrument; he scrutinized every inch.
Then, as a master archer, he rolled up his beggar's mantle, bent the bow with great skill, and shot three arrows from it, passing one through the hole left by the previous one.
Hani, who had not forgotten her first and only love, decided to go to him, she told him that Mir Chakar had realised his mistake and has now freed her so that Sheh Murid and her could be together.
On the following day Murid visited his father's camel herd, chose a white she-camel, mounted her, and disappeared from mortal eyes.