Khwaja Ghulam Farid
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Khwaja Ghulam Fareed (Urdu: خواجہ فرید) or Khawaja Farid (1844-1901) was a Siraiki poet and mystic of the Panjab region of Pakistan. He was born at Kot Mithan and also died there.
He was the son of Khwaja Khuda Bakhsh. His mother died when he was five years old and he was orphaned at age twelve when his father died. He was educated by his brother, Fakhr Jahan Uhdi.
He was a scholar of that time and wrote several books. He knew Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Panjabi, Braj Bhasha, and Siraiki. He was a poet of Urdu and Siraiki. He also wrote some poems in Sindhi, Panjabi, Persian, and Braj Bhasha.
[edit] Works by Khwaja Farid
- Dewan-e-Farid in 1882. (Saraiki Poetry)
- Dewan-e-Farid in 1884. (Urdu Poetry)
- Manaqabe Mehboobia (in Persian prose)
- Fawaid Faridia (in Persian prose)
