Fareed Gate,Bahawalpur The Name Fareed Gate was Given due to The eminent Sufi poet of the subcontinent Khwaja Ghulam Farid as he spent eighteen years in the desert of Cholistan and composed dozens of poems related to the beauty of Rohi. Khwaja Ghulam Fareed, a well-known spiritual personality of Indo-Pak and a popular Sufi poet, was born on 3 December in 1845 in Chacharan Shareef, Rahim Yar Khan district, a small town located on the Indus bank in Southern Punjab. The town is commonly known as Kot Fareedan (town of Fareed). Khawaja Ghulam Fareed’s poetry speaks of love, humanism, tolerance, peace and spirituality.He wrote two collections of poetry, one of them being in Urdu and the other one in many languages chief among them being Punjabi and Saraiki.He remains the greatest Sufi Saint of the Chishtia lineage of Sufism. Among his disciples were the Nawab rulers of independent Indian states. Chief among them were Nawab of Tonk, Rajasthan and Ahmed Akhtar Ali Gorgani grandson of the King Bahadur Shah Zafar. But he had a special liking for Nawab Sadiq Mohammad Abbasi, the Nawab of Bahawalpur State. There are many stories related to their mutual affiliation. He emphasized the local culture and even his most elated poems are written in the context of local culture. He introduced the word Rohi (روہی) to refer to the Cholistan and Thar desert in his poetry. میڈا عشق وی توں, میڈا یار وی توں میڈا دین وی توں, میڈا ایمان وی توں میڈا جسم وی توں، میڈا روح وی توں میڈا قلب وی توں،جند جان وی توں میڈا کعبہ، قبلہ ،مسجد، ممبر مُصحف تے قرآن وی توں میڈے فرض، فریضے، حج، زکوٰتاں صوم صلٰواۃ، اذان وی توں بارش تے باران وی توں میڈا ملک، ملیر تے مارو ،تھلڑا روہی، چولستان وی توں جے یار فرید قبول کرے سرکار وی توں ،سلطان وی توں نہ تاں کہتر ،کمتر،ا حقر ،ادنیٰ لاشئے، لا امکان وی توں #MyClick #RandomClick #GatesofBahawalpur #FareedGate #Bahawalpur #ThePrincelyStateofBahawalpur #TheWorldAsDaniSee #HMDanish #HistoricalPlaces #OldBahawalpur #HistoricalMonument #HistoricalPlacesOfPakistan #MyPakistan #CultureOfPakistan #WalledCity #InsideBahawalpur #KhawajaGhulamFareed #Rohi #RohiDesert #Cholistan #Desert #Saraiki #GhulamFareed #Poetry (at Bahawalpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QEfhMp3nC/?igshid=gm7hu0dfikzf
