Khwaja Ghulam Farid

His mother died when he was four years old and he was orphaned around the age of twelve when his father, Khawaja Khuda Bakhsh, died. He was then brought up by his elder brother, Khawaja Fakhr-ud-Din aka Khawaja Fakhr Jehan Sain, and grew up to become a scholar and writer. He mastered Punjabi, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, and Braj Bhasha, and also wrote kafi poems in the Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian, and Braj Bhasha languages.

Nawab Sadeq Mohammad Khan V of Bahawalpur took Khawaja Ghulam Farid Koreja to his palace at Ahmadpur Sharqia for his religious education by a scholar, when he was 8 years old. His elder brother Khawaja Fakhr-ud-Din Koreja who had brought him up after his parents' deaths, also died when Khawaja Ghulam Farid Koreja was 28 years old. Khawaja Ghulam Farid then left the Cholistan Desert (also known as Rohi) and lived there for 18 years.

Khawaja Ghulam Farid Koreja performed Hajj, Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1876.

His most significant works include:

• Deewan-e-Farid (poem collection in Punjabi, 1882; in Urdu, 1884); Khwaja Farid composed as many as 272 poems of high literary merit.[3]
• Manaqabe Mehboobia (in Persian prose)
• Fawaid Faridia (in Persian prose)

In his poetry, he frequently uses the symbolism of a desert. Talking about how beautiful the desert is and how it attracted him to stay there for 18 years and how he believed that made him feel close to Muhammad. Sometimes he touched the topic of political affairs, opposing the British rule in Bahawalpur state writing a letter to the Nawab of Bahawalpur and also mentioning it in some of his poetry.

• The 20th century saw the development of an entire branch of literary studies on the life and work of Khwaja Ghulam Farid Koreja, called faridiyat.
• Today, many religious and educational institutions in Pakistan and India are named after him (e.g., Government Khawaja Farid College in Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan) as are streets and town living quarters.
• A literary award named after him, Khwaja Ghulam Farid Award is awarded yearly by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in literature, its recipients including Ismail Ahmedani (in 2013) and Irshad Taunsvi (in 2007) among others.[4][5]
• In 2001, on Khwaja Ghulam Farid's 100th death anniversary (urs), Pakistan Post issued a memorial stamp to honor him in its 'Poets of Pakistan' series[1]
• The public school built by Nawab Sadeq Mohammad Khan V in Bahawalpur has a house named after Khwaja Ghulam Farid, called Farid House
• Also one of the gates surrounding the inner city of Bahawalpur was named “Bab-e-Farid” also known as “Farid Gate” after Khawaja Ghulam Farid
• The Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT)

• Fariduddin Ganjshakar
• Punjabi literature
• Qari Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
• Pathanay Khan
• Christopher Shackle

• The complete works of Khwaja Farid in Punjabi on Academy of the Punjab in North America website

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