History of Hookah

The origin of hookah smoking can be dated millennia back and its initial traces have been found in the northwestern provinces of India, alongside the border of Pakistan, in the state of Rajasthan and Gujarat.

It was invented in India in the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar, by Hakim Abul Fateh Gilani, who was a physician. After raising concerns about smoking tobacco, he subsequently conceived a system which allowed smoke to be passed through water in order to be ‘purified’.

Gilani invented the hookah after Asad Beg, the then ambassador of Bijapur, encouraged Akbar to take up smoking.

Hookah is like women, You have to work with her before U can get the white stuff out