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The hermeneutics of life as delineated in Sufi paradigm lays emphasis on lifting the veil of the illusive, delusive superficialities of life. Union with the divine Godhead is possible through a path of self-annihilation and self-effacement. Evanescence of ego and worldly materialistic desires is the prelude to union with the divine Beloved in Sufi parlance. The paper attempts to do a comparative study of the metaphysical contours of two prominent Sufi poets of Sindh and Punjab respectively, Shah Abdul Latif and Bulleh Shah substantiating their parallel mystical journey vis-�-vis inter-textual references to Renaissance anthropomorphic system and Indian Vedantic thought. The centrality hence accorded to human being opens the possibility of dismantling all dichotomies and a complete breakdown of binary opposites; human emancipation from the restrictive and reductive confines of narrow schismatic communal confines opens the path towards union (�wisal�) with the divine realm, hence enabling a teleological union with the divine Beloved.