Habba Khatoon (1554-1609) — "Lady Habba" — was the **Kashmiri Sufi poet** who became Queen of Kashmir as the wife of King Yusuf Shah Chak (the last independent ruler of Kashmir). **After Akbar arrested her husband and exiled him, she wandered Kashmir mourning him for the rest of her life** — composing *lol* (Kashmiri love-lyric) songs that **shaped the Kashmiri vernacular literary tradition**. **The Habba Khatoon Peak in Kashmir is named after her.**
**The "Nightingale of Kashmir."**
Habba reduces to six — the number of Kashmir's nightingale.