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Khwaja Ghulam Farid
خواجہ غُلام فرید
Tomb of Ghulam Farid at Mithankot
Tomb of Ghulam Farid at Mithankot
Bornc. 1841/1845
Chachran, Bahawalpur, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Died24 July 1901 (aged 56 or 60)
Chachran, Bahawalpur, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Resting placeMithankot, Punjab, Pakistan
Notable workDiwan-e-Farid
Manaqab-e-Mehboobia
Fawaid Faridia

Khwaja Ghulam Farid (also romanized as Fareed; c. 1841/1845 – 24 July 1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab, belonging to the Chishti Order. Most of his work is in the local Multani, or what is now known as Saraiki. However, he also contributed to the Standard Punjabi, Urdu and Persian literature.[1][2][3]

Life[edit]

Born into a Koreja family, Khwaja Farid traced descent from Umer (r. 634–644), the second Rashidun caliph. One of his ancestors had migrated to Sindh, and the family was established as saints associated with the Suhrawardī Sufi order. In the early 18th century, the family seat moved to Mithankot, and subsequently transferred their allegiance to the Chishtī order.[2][4] Khwaja Farid was born in c. 1841/1845 at Chachran. Farid was orphaned around the age of eight when his father died. He was then brought up by his elder brother, Khwāja Fakhr al-Dīn, and grew up to become a scholar and writer. He received a fine formal education at the royal palace of Ṣādiq Muḥammad IV, the Nawab of Bahawalpur. His brother Fakhr al-Dīn, who had brought him up after their parents' deaths, also died when Farid was 26 years old. Farid performed hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) in 1875, and then retired to the Cholistan Desert (also known as Rohi) for chilla (retreat) where he spent a total of eighteen years. He died at Chachran on 24 July, 1901, and was buried at Mithankot.[2]

Works[edit]

His most significant works include:[2]

  • Dīwān-i Farīd
  • Manāqib-i maḥbūbiyya (in Persian prose)
  • Fawāʾid-i Farīdiyya (in Persian prose)

Legacy[edit]

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Suvorova, Anna (22 July 2004). Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries. Routledge Sufi Series. Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 978-1134-37005-4. Later on these assertions became the conventional tradition of the Sufi poetry that was summed up by the Punjabi poet-mystic Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841–1901) in one of his kāfī:
  2. ^ a b c d Shackle, Christopher (2013). "Ghulām Farīd". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24430. ISSN 1873-9830.
  3. ^ Mir, Farina (2010). The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab. South Asia across the Disciplines. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0-520-26269-0.
  4. ^ Asghar, Muhammad (2016). The Sacred and the Secular: Aesthetics in Domestic Spaces of Pakistan/Punjab. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 92. ISBN 978-3-643-90836-0. This saint originally belonged to Thatta (Sindh), and is buried in Mithankot, a small town on the right bank of the river Indus. Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841-1901) is the most famous Chishti Sufi saint in Pakistan and particularly revered in Southern Punjab where Seraiki language is spoken. He composed many mystical lyrics in the Seraiki language.
  5. ^ PAL announces National Literary Awards Academy of the Punjab in North America website, Published 10 August 2007, Retrieved 15 April 2020
  6. ^ Sumayia Asif (2 November 2015). "10 most visited shrines in Pakistan". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 28 April 2022.

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