Ghulam Farid (other)
Ghulam Farid ( ar, غُلام فرید , link=no) is a male Muslim given name. It may refer to *Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901), Indian Sufi poet *Malik Ghulam Farid (1897–1977), Ahmadiyya missionary *Ghulam Farid Sabri (1930–1994), Pakistani Qawwali singer {{hndis ...
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Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Khwaja Ghulam Farid (Urdu: ) or Khwaja Fareed (1845–1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet from Punjab. He was a member of the Chishti Nizami Sufi order. He wrote poetry in several languages, and his literary heritage has been claimed by both the Punjabi and the Saraiki language movements. Early life Farid's mother died when he was four years old and he was orphaned around the age of eight when his father, Khwaja Khuda Bakhsh, died. He was then brought up by his elder brother, Khwaja Fakhr-ud-Din, also known as Khwaja Fakhr Jehan Sain, and grew up to become a scholar and writer. He wrote kafi poems in Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, Persian, and Braj Bhasha. Sadeq Mohammad Khan III Nawab of Bahawalpur took Farid to his palace at Ahmedpur East for his religious education by a scholar, when he was 8 years old. His brother Fakhr-ud-Din, who had brought him up after his parents' deaths, also died when Farid was 28 years old. Farid then left for the Cholistan Desert (also known as ''Rohi ...
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