Baba Farid

Baba Farid (d. Around 1265) was a scholar and well-known member of the moderate Islamic-Orthodox Sufi order Chishtiyya , which is also part of the spiritual lineage ( silsila ) of the order ( tariqa ).

Life

He is counted among the most important Sufis in India and Pakistan . He led a very ascetic life and communicated with the yogis and sadhus . He "converted large parts of the then predominantly Hindu rural population of southwestern Panjab and sent messengers further south to Kutch , Sindh and Makran ".

Baba Farid wrote innumerable aphorisms in Hindawi (Hindustani), a vernacular language mixed from Hindi and Urdu , of which around five hundred have survived, which are also quoted in the sacred books Adi Granth and Guru Granth Sahib of the Sikhs .

mausoleum

The mausoleum of the Sufi saint in the city of Pakpattan , south of Lahore , Pakistan was bombed in 2010.

Quote

“I just pray to love you, God. I wish to turn to dust and lie at your feet forever. My greatest wish between heaven and earth is to live and die for you. "

literature

Sharda, Sadhu Ram: Sufi thought: its development in Panjab and its impact on Panjabi literature, from Baba Farid to 1850 AD With a foreword by Surindar Singh Kohli . New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers 1974

Web links

Video

Mazar Shareef of Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar Urs Mubrark 5th Muharram 1431 AH (film from the tomb of the saint)

References and footnotes

↑ Baba Farid was 18th in the Silsila (spiritual chain) of the Chishti order . After his death, this split into the two branches Chishtī Sabri (the followers of Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari ) and Chishtī Nizami (the followers of Nizāmuddīn Auliyā ).
↑ JW Frembgen: Journey to God. Sufis and dervishes in Islam . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2000. ISBN 9783406459207 , p. 25
^ Indienwelt.weebly.com: Sufis and Sufism in India
↑ Fatal attack on Sufi shrine. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 18, 2013, accessed March 18, 2013 .
↑ indienwelt.weebly.com: Sufis and Sufism in India , quoted there from: Qalandar, Hamid. Khairul majalis. Aligarh 1959. p. 224.

Baba Farid (alternative names of the lemma)
Baba Fareed; Fariduddin Ganjshakar; Farīduddīn Mas'ūd; Baba Farid ud-Din Shakarganj

personal data
SURNAME	Baba Farid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scholar and member of the moderate Islamic Orthodox Sufi order
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1265

[1] Baba Farid was 18th in the Silsila (spiritual chain) of the Chishti order . After his death, this split into the two branches Chishtī Sabri (the followers of Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari ) and Chishtī Nizami (the followers of Nizāmuddīn Auliyā ).

[2] JW Frembgen: Journey to God. Sufis and dervishes in Islam . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2000. ISBN 9783406459207 , p. 25

[3] Indienwelt.weebly.com: Sufis and Sufism in India

[4] Fatal attack on Sufi shrine. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 18, 2013, accessed March 18, 2013 .

[5] welt.weebly.com: Sufis and Sufism in India , quoted there from: Qalandar, Hamid. Khairul majalis. Aligarh 1959. p. 224.