Kaido manages to salvage some of the churi and rushes to the village council. There he declares that he has evidence that Chuchak’s daughter is brazenly roaming the woods with the new herdsman.

Heer threatens Kaido with dire consequences and demands that he return the choori he took from Ranjha, fearful that it would be evidence of her doting on the cowherd.

Heer races to catch up with Kaido and descends upon him like one of the Furies, throwing him to the ground and thrashing him.

In dismay Heer tells Ranjha that he should have bene more careful, who responds that he did not know Kaido was spying on them; he had just seen a disabled beggar begging for food, not realizing that he had ill intentions. Interestingly, rather than chasing Kaido himself, Ranjha asks Heer to do so, suggesting that she first reason with him and then use force if necessary to keep him quiet. Once again the poet is emphasizing his heroine’s proud and forceful mein.

Heer, realizing that the person who approached Ranjha was Kaido is, distraught. She declares that Kaido is a trouble maker who will surely go to her parents and tell them about their daughter’s meeting the new herdsman in the woods.

Kaido approaches Ranjha and begs for food, claiming to be hungry and the lad gives him a fistful of the choori that Heer has brought him. When Heer returns from the river, where she had gone to fetch water, Ranjha tells her about the disabled man who approached him, wondering if he was a mendicant, unaware of the storm that is about to burst.

The narrative moves forward rapidly; even as the poet paints an idyllic picture of Ranjha grazing the herd and Heer bringing him a lavish meal, a new character, Kaido is introduced. The lame Kaido is presented as a malevolent presence as he roots around trying to find the source of the pleasant smell of food that has been wafting to his keen nose.

Waris Shah has his hero encounter the five most storied Sufi saints familiar to the people in his time. Khawja Khizr, the immortal patron sant of mariners, who had drunk from the fountain of life, Sheikh Farid, the first great poet of the Punjabi language, whose shrine at Pak Pattan is considered a portal to heaven, Bahauddin Zakriya, perhaps the most widely revered Sufi Saint in Punjab, Syed Jajal Bukharia, who was said to have traveld the world and who had received instruction form three hundred masters, and Lal Shabaz Qalandar, the beloved Pir of Punjab and Sind, who in lore, had resisted the charms of a maiden of paradise who had been sent to him. Ranjha’s meeting with the Pirs, empowers him, shrouds him in spiritual glory, and most importantly confers divine saction upon his relationship with Hir, which is about to begin. Their gifts are also richly symbolic, investing him with both status and piety.