3. Biography
• Fariduddin Masud was born in 1179 in Kothewal, in
the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan.
• He was one of the founding fathers of the Chishti
Sufi order.Baba Farid received his early education at
Multan, which had become a centre for Muslim
education. There he met his teacher Qutbuddin
Bakhtiar Kaki, who was passing through Multan on
his way from Baghdad to Delhi .
• Once his education was over, he moved to Delhi,
where he learned the Islamic doctrine from his
master, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki.
4. Linage
• Baba Farīd R.A was great grand son of
Farrukh Shah, the king of Kabul, who was the
direct descendant of Hazrat Umer Farooq R.A
.He was the spiritual disciple of Sufi
Qutbunddin Bakhtiyar Kaki who was the
disciple of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti.
5. About His Personality
• He was a man of impeccable character. He was
pious and humble and led a very simple life.
His piety and nobility of character attracted
people to his teaching and Islam.
6. Education
• Hazrat Baba Faried R.A received his early education
from Multan where he learnt Quran by heart and
studied Hadiths and ,fiqh, phylosophy and logic
under the tutorship of Moulana Minhajuddin.
• Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar kaki of Dehli visited
Multan where he become his disciple.
• On his instructions Baba Farid toured several Islamic
countries ,for about 18 years .He travelled to Baghdad
,Jerusalem,Afghanistan ,Syria, Iran ,Makkah,Madina.
• After the death of kaki sahb he become his Khalifa or
spiritual seccessor.
7. Legacy
• One of Farīd's most important contributions
to Punjabi literature was his development of the
language for literary purposes. Whereas Sanskrit,
Arabic, Turkish and Persian had historically been
considered the languages of the learned and the elite,
before Farīd R.A there was little in Punjabi literature
apart from traditional ballads. By using Punjabi as the
language of poetry, Farīd laid the basis for a
vernacular Punjabi literature that would be developed
later. Today he is recognized as the first well known
Sufi poet of the Punjab language.
8. Poetry
• Multiple themes run deep in his deceptively simple
rhymed couplets called ‘Shlokas’. Ethically informed
existentialist consciousness, for him, defines the
essence of individual being.
• “The whole world suffered, While I believed only I
suffered When I rose, I found every house on fire”.
Poetry,
• For Baba Farid, was never just about craft coupled with
conventional poetic imagination. It was an expression
of life the way he lived it. His way had no room for
duality. The spiritual and the mundane were the
elements which constituted totality. His was real praxis:
no difference between words and deeds, no gulf
between thinking and doing.
• He did what he believed and believed what he did.
9. Teaching
Faridudddin changed the lives of rude and ignorant
locals by his character.
He used Punjabi the local language ,as his
medium of expression. He also wrote poetry in
Punjabi.He relates the transience of human life and
stresses the importance of time. In one of his verses
,he says,’’O Farid you spent your days and nights
sleeping and roaming around .What will you do when
your Lord will take you an account ‘’.
He says we shoukd not waste our time otherwise e will
be left empty handed.He also stresses the need to
make a right decision at a right time.
10. Teaching
• Friduddin maintains it is necessary to set the
objectives of life in the right direction .He says
if somebody’s objectives are not in the
rightdirection,he won’t be able to reach his
destination .It is, therefore ,essential for a
person to be vigilant and keep his eyes and
mind open all the time.
11. Some of his saying
• 1. Know he value of time.
• 2. Don’t pride yourself on your sins.
• 3. If you want to make enemies ,behave
proudly .
• 4.Anger is not man’s strength but his
weakness.
• 5. Whenever you are in a trouble ,consider it
an outcome of your mistakes or sins.
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15. Death anniversary and Urs.
• Every year, the saint's death anniversary or Urs is
celebrated for six days in the first Islamic month
of Muharram, in Pakpattan, Pakistan.
• Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and visitors from
all over the country and the world come to pay
homage. The door of the Bahishti Darwaza is made of
silver, with floral designs inlaid in gold leaf.
• Every Thursday evening, there is a big
Mehfil-e-Sama just outside the tomb.
