Sahiban's brothers and Chanders caught up fast with them. Sahiban knew Mirza to be an accomplished archer who would not miss a target, and that if he shot at her brothers, the latter would surely die at Mirza's hands. Thus, before waking Mirza up from his slumber, Sahiban broke his arrows so he couldn't use them, and hoped that, on seeing her, her brothers might change their minds and welcome Mirza into the family. She thought that they'd understand their love that they had for each other, but they were not to be swayed and a fight ensued.
Though Mirza fought with all his might, he is unable to defeat such a large number of people and killed by the blow of a sword to his head from behind.
Sahiban did not want bloodshed from either side of her beloved ones and her love to be stained with her brothers' blood. So she ended the fight with self-annihilation. When Mirza was gone, she killed herself with Mirza's sword. Out of all the legendary stories originating from Punjab, Pakistan, Mirza Sahiban's story is one of very few where the male's name comes first. Well, this is more of a reflection on the deep-rooted agrarian and male chauvinism especially in the contemporary pedestrian Punjabi music.
Mirza rescues Sahiban and together they elope riding Bakki to Danabad. Sahiban is anxious to get to the village and cries out that she should be taken to his village for her brothers must be following her.
Mirza pays no heed, so overjoyed he is to have his dear Sahiban with him that just short of the village he chooses to rest beneath the Jand. She can sink into Hell and fly into Heaven. It is here that Peelu falls short of the Sufi thought which recognises physical and divine love and does not make room for carelessness.
And Sahiban is but a pawn in the patriarchal struggle of controlling female desire and for Mirza, a prize that he has won and must possess at once. The society would have still held her guilty.
It is time to set her free. They were classmates and soon became friends. As they grew up, Mirza became a valiant archer, the likes of whom had never been seen before. Stories of his unfailing aim spread far and wide, and everyone came to accept him as the mightiest warrior around. Sahiba, on the other hand , turned into a beautiful young maiden. Such was her beauty, that men around couldn't take their eyes off her. One fine day, when Mirza saw Sahiba buying vegetables from a local vendor, he was blown away by her beauty and fell madly in love.
It was as though the entire world around him had ceased to exist. All he could see was her! Soon, they fell in love. And the two of them were lost in their own world. Nothing else seemed to matter to them anymore. But as is the case with such love stories, this didn't last long. There was a twist in the tale! Sahiba 's father and brothers found out about the two and they were furious.
They were distraught with her for keeping them in the dark. They were upset with Mirza too, for whom they had opened their home. They sent him back to his village because they felt cheated. The problem lay in the fact that as far as the families were concerned, Mirza and Sahiba were cousins.
This was because Mirza 's mother and Sahiba's father had been nursed by the same woman. Hence, they were 'milk siblings' and by that logic, Mirza and Sahiba could not be together. This broke Sahiba 's heart and she wept inconsolably.
But her family was unperturbed. They immediately planned her wedding with Tahir Khan.
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