Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Khawaja Ghulam Farid was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab, belonging to the Chishti Order. Most of his work is in his mother tongue Multani, which later evolved into the Saraiki language. However, he wrote in many different languages, including Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Hindi and Persian, but gained popularity for writing in his mother tongue Multani.
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Trending topics shown first"From the hand of the cup-bearer I drank the goblet of love. Oneness became overpowering, forget infidelity and Islam."
"Whoever found the beloved in the temple of the heart, got purged of all affliction and sin, by meditation attained permanence. Farid subsists without individuality."
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1845
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