Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) ( ur, ) was a poet of the
Delhi
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School and a
Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
saint of the
Naqshbandi
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-Mujaddadi religious order.
Poetry
Dard's couplet on this illusory life, from 'Ilm-ul-Kitab':
[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440328 Khwaja Humair Dard, ''Ilm Ul Kitab'' (in Urdu), p. 476]
References
External links
Ilm Ul KitabKhwaja Mir Dard at Kavita Kosh(Hindi)
Khwaja Mir Dard: Life and Ghazals
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1721 births
1785 deaths
18th-century Indian Muslims
18th-century Indian poets
Urdu-language poets
Sufi poets
18th-century Urdu-language writers
Urdu-language religious writers
Poets from Delhi
Urdu-language writers from British India
Urdu-language writers from Mughal India