The Oldest Kashmiri Poetry — The Vaakhs of Lalleshwari

Lalleshwari, or Lal Dyad, a female Kashmiri mystic, who is said to have influenced Sheikh-ul-Alam, is also responsible for the composition of the very first literature in her language, a language that now the majority of Jammu and Kashmir speaks. 

This is a Vaakh of hers, which represents the original, secular aspect of Kashmir, the one of many ideologies together known as Kashmiriyat:-

Śiva čhu thāli thāli rozān

Mo zān Hyond tụ Musalmān 

Truk ay čhuk pān panun parzanāv, 

Soy čhay Sahivas sati zāniy zān.

Siva pervades every place and thing; 

Do not differentiate between Hindu and Musalman. 

you art intelligent recognise thine own self; 

That is the true acquaintance with God.