Khawaja Ghulam Farid خواجہ غُلام فرید | |
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 Tomb of Ghulam Farid at Mithankot | |
| Born | c. 1841/1845 Chachran, Bahawalpur, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Died | 24 July 1901 (aged 56 or 60) Chachran, Bahawalpur, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Resting place | Mithankot, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Notable work | Diwan-e-Farid Manaqab-e-Mehboobia Fawaid Faridia |
Khawaja Ghulam Farid (also romanized as Fareed; c. 1841/1845 – 24 July 1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab, British India, belonging to the Chishti Order. Most of his work is in his mother tongue Multani, or what is now known as Saraiki. However, he also contributed to the Standard Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Hindi and Persian literature.[1][2][3][4] His writing style is characterized by the integration of themes such as death, passionate worldly and spiritual love, and the grief associated with love.[4]
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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:
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Khwaja Farid's writing style combines the themes of death, passionate worldly and spiritual love and grief associated with love. He wrote in various different languages including Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Hindi and Persian, but gained popularity mainly for writing in his mother language, Siraiki.