Khuda Bux Sheikh of Dariyabad

Khuda Bux Sheikh (Urdu: خُدا بخش شیخ‎, Hindi: ख़ुदा बख़्श शेख़), also spelled as, Khuda Bakhsh Shai'q of Dariyabad is a noted Urdu writer and poet, from the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

He was a follower of a sufi, Haji Waris Ali Shah.[1]

He has written poetry in Arabic, Urdu and Persian. His book Tohmat-ul-Asfiya is the biography of Haji Waris Ali Shah.[2] In 1877 he collected the sayings of Haji Waris Ali Shah in Malfuzat-i-Haji Waris 'Ali Shah.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nabi Hadi (4 October 1992). Dictionary of Indo-Persian literature. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Personalities: Literary". The Official Website of Barabanki. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT OF INDIA; BARABANKI-225001. Retrieved 20 July 2010.