 Shah Hussain is one of the most celebrated Sufi poets of Punjabi language.Shah Hussain is also often known as Shah Hussain Faqir - "Faqir" meaning "Dervish" (mendicant) and "Shah" means "King".So due to his extremely humble Sufi personality, people called him "The Dervish King", a person who was a King and a Dervish at the same time.