Fariduddin Ganjshakar

Fariduddin Masud Ganjshakar
Sheikh ul Alam Qutb-e-Akbar
Born	4 April 1179 Kothewal, Multan, Punjab, Ghurid Sultanate (present-day Pakistan)
Died	17 October 1265 (aged 86) Pakpattan, Punjab, Delhi Sultanate (present-day Pakistan)
Venerated in	Islam specifically the Chishti Sufi order
Major shrine	Pakpattan, Punjab

Khwaja Fariduddin Masud Ganjshakar (Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar), popularly known as Baba Farid or Farid Khan (1173–1266 Hijiri); also spelled Fareed, Fareeduddin Masood, Ganj-e-Shakar, Fareed Khan, etc.), was a Sufi saint and a Muslim missionary from the Chishti order, living in Punjab region of Pakistan.

Fariduddin Masud was a great Sufi master who was born in 4 April 1179 (1173 Hijri) at a village called Kothewal, 10 km from Multan in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan, to Jamāl-ud-dīn Suleimān and Maryam Bībī (Qarsum Bībī), daughter of Sheikh Wajīh-ud-dīn Khojendī. 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; it was there that he met his Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, a noted Sufi saint, who was passing through Multan on his way from Baghdad to Delhi. Upon completing his education, Farīd left for Sistan and Kandahar and went to Makkah for the Hajj pilgrimage with his parents at the age of 16.

Once his education was over, he moved to Delhi, where he learned the Islamic doctrine from his master, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. He later moved to Hansi, Haryana. When Quṭbuddīn Bakhtiyār Kākī died in 1659, Farīd left Hansi and became his spiritual successor, and he settled in Ajodhan (the present Pakpattan, Pakistan) instead of Delhi. On his way to Ajodhan, while passing through Faridkot, he met the 20-year-old Nizāmuddīn, who went on to become his disciple, and later his successor Sufi khalīfah.

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