Khwaja Ghulam FaridKorejo (Urdu: خواجہ غُلام فرید کوریجو) or KhwajaFarid (1845–1901) was a 19th-century Punjabi[2] Sufi poet. 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, KhwajaKhuda Bakhsh, died. He was then brought up by his elder brother, KhwajaFakhr-ud-Din, and grew up to become a scholar and writer. He mastered Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, Sindhi, and BrajBhasha, and also wrote poems in Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian, and BrajBhasha languages.
Nawab Sadeq Mohammad Khan V of Bahawalpur took KhwajaFarid to his palace at AhmadpurSharqia for his religious education by a scholar, when he was 8 years old. His elder brother KhwajaFakhr-ud-Din who had brought him up after his parents' deaths, also died when Khwaja Ghulam Farid was 28 years old. KhwajaFarid then left for Rohi area or Cholistan Desert and lived 18 years there.
Khwaja Ghulam FaridKorejo performed Hajj, Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1876.
His most significant works include:
- Deewan-e-Farid (poem collection in Multani, 1882; in Punjabi, 1883 ; in Urdu, 1884); KhwajaFarid composed as many as 272 poems of high literary merit.[3]
- ManaqabeMehboobia (in Persian prose)
- FawaidFaridia (in Persian prose)
In his poetry, he frequently uses the symbolism of a desert. Sometimes he touched the topic of political affairs, opposing the British rule in Bahawalpur state.
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