Journal of Research (Urdu), BZU - Multan

(جرنل آف ریسرچ (اردو

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan (Pakistan)
ISSN (print): 1726-9067
ISSN (online): 1816-3424
Abstract

There is a long tradition of Sufi orders and Sufi poetry in the Indo-Pak subcontinent, which survives till date. The Sufi teachings started to spread in Punjab in the 5th century of Islamic calendar. A large number of Sufis saints came to this area and chose to settle here for good. One of the prominent Sufi saints, Khawaja Mueenuddin Chishty Ajmeri (a.r.) made Ajmer the centre of Chishtia Sufism from where it was taken to the other areas of the sub-continent, including the southern Punjab during the course of centuries.  It is interesting to note that some of the prominent Sufis of Chishtia order were greatly interested in music and poetry, such as Baba Freed Ganj-e-Shakar and Hazrat Amir Khusrau. In the later generation of this Sufi order Khwaja Ghulam Fareed distinguished himself as a great spiritual being and as a great Siraiki poet. His elder brother and spiritual teacher Khawaja Fakhruddin Auhadi was also a poet of certain merit. He wrote in Persian and had a Diwan of his Persian poetry collected in his life time. This Diwan has already been published. I have discovered a manuscript of versified Siraiki translation of this Diwan of Auhadi which deserves attention of concerned scholars.

Author(s):

Department of Siraiki, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

Pakistan

  • ajmalmahar@bzu.edu.pk
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Details:

Type: Article
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
Language: Urdu
Id: 5e80b84acca05
Pages 301 - 310
Discipline: Saraiki
Published December 31, 2007

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