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Khwaja Ghulam Farid Poetry, Khwaja Ghulam Farid Shayari

1844 - 1901 Rahimyar Khan

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Khawaja Ghulam Farid was born in 1845. He was a 19th century Punjabi Sufi poet of the Sub-continent. He was a scholar and writer who knew several different languages. He belonged to Chishti–Nizami Sufi order. He was born in and died at Chachran town and was buried at Mithankot, Punjab, Pakistan.

His mother died when he was four years old and he was orphaned around the age of twelve when his father, Khawaja Khuda Bakhsh, died. He was then brought up by his elder brother, Khawaja Fakhr-ud-Din, and grew up to become a scholar and writer. He mastered Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, Sindhi, and Braj Bhasha, and also wrote poems in Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian, and Braj Bhasha languages.

His elder brother Khawaja Fakhr-ud-Din who had brought him up after his parents' deaths, also died when Khawaja Ghulam Farid was 28 years old. Khawaja Farid then left for Rohi area or Cholistan Desert and lived 18 years there.

Khawaja Ghulam Farid famous books are Deewan-e-Farid Manaqabe Mehboobia, Fawaid Faridia the 20th century saw development of a complete branch of literary studies into the life and work of Khawaja Ghulam Farid, named faridiyat. He died in 1901.

A Khawaja Ghulam Farid Award is awarded by the Government of Pakistan in literature, its recipients including Ismail Ahmedani, Noshi Gilani and in 2001, on Khawaja Ghulam Farid's 100th death anniversary, Pakistan Post issued an honoring stamp to honor him in its 'Poets of Pakistan' series.