About: Soch Kral

Soch Kral (1782 – 29 November 1854), was a Kashmiri Sufi poet, and is a Sufi saint. Soch Kral was born in 1782 in the village of Inder, in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. He was a potter by profession. He lived a simple life devoted to spirituality, monotheism and mysticism. His father was the Sufi poet Arif Kral, and he was a disciple of Kashmiri poet Momin Sahab R.A. Soch Kral may have migrated to the village of Devsar in the Anantnag district, where his descendants are still living. He married but divorced his wife, and died on 29 November 1854 in Inder.