Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar (c. 4 April 1179 – 7 May 1266), known reverentially as - Baba Farid
Baba Fareed Uddin GanjShakar (R.A), was from the Chisti Sufi order. The Chisti Silsila was brought to India by Moinuddin Chisti (R.A), Moinuddin Chisti (R.A) was given the ownership (Khilafat) of Hindustan or India by Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (R.A) of Baghdad according to some Sufi scholars. Meanwhile, the majority of Scholars attributed their consent to the fact that it was Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who granted the Kingship of India to Moinuddin Chisti while the saint was dreaming. Although the Chisti order was started in Harun, Iran by the Spiritual Master of Moinuddin Chisti. Hazrat Khwaja Usman-e-Harooni bestowed Moinuddin Chisti with his spiritual guidance and powers. There was a close bond of friendship and brother between Usman Harun, Junaid Baghdadi, and Moinuddin Chisti. Baba Fareeduddin GanjShakar was the third caliph of the Sufi Chsiter order in India. Fareeduddin GanjShakar was a student of Qutubuddin Bahtiyar Kaki, he was a murid of Moinuddin Chisti.
Baba Fareeduddin came under the guidance and teachings of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki & after his death, Baba Farid became the spiritual successor of the Chisti order. Baba Fareed was into the practice of Islam since his childhood as his mother used to give him sugar for the prayers (Salah) or namaz he used to offer. There was a great sense of brotherhood between the three Sufis of the Chisti order as there are places that can be used as shreds of evidence to support the statement and one such place is Nizamuddin Complex where the three saints prayed together.
How Baba Farid got the title of Ganj-E-Shakar.
Baba Fareed was fond of sugar when he was merely a child of 5-6 years & his mother knows it, so his mother encouraged him to pray salah regularly and in return, she used to give him sugar each time after completing his namaz 5 times a day. Baba Farid used to think that it is God who gives him Sugar every time he prays. Once Baba Fareed was playing outside his house & heard the call to prayer (Adhaan), his mother gets tensed that Baba Fareed is outside and he will surely pray Salah, after that how will I manage to give him Sugar this time as there is no sign of him playing near the house. So, his mother prayed to ALLAH oh my lord please don't let my efforts down to make my child (Fareed) a pious child of yours, if he will not get sugar today he might think that the sugar he was getting was given to him by his mother, not by the God. When Fareeduddin came back home his mother asked did you pray today of that hour Namaz, he replied yes mother but today the sugar under my prayer mat was sweeter than I get every day.
By the time his sincerity towards Islam grew and he become famous, people started calling him by the name of Ganj-E-Shakar.
When he became Auliya (Wali) or Saint of ALLAH
After the death of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, in 1235, Baba Fareed became the legal spiritual successor of the Chisti order in India. Baba Fareed used to pray (offer Namaz), observe fast & doing zikr of Allah year after year without knowing that that year has passed and the year he is in right now is ten years ahead in which he started observing fast, even his feets started bleeding while he started to offer Namaaz (SALAH) for months & months continuously. He started doing miracles afterward - a miracle was done by GanjShakar and that was "A man passed by Baba Fareed taking sugar into his bullock cart when Baba Fareed asked the man that what are you containing, the man replied that it is Salt, So Fareed replied then it must be Salt only". When the man reached his destination and opened his belongings the sugar became salt & he ran to Baba Fareed and asked his pardon.
Baba Fareed (Mausoleum)
Fareeduddin GanjShakar Shrine is in {Pakpattan} Pakistan, the region of Punjab.
Fareeduddin is the mentor of Nizamuddin Auliya of the Chisti order & Baba Fareed in his lifetime declared that Nizamuddin will become a tree under whose shades everybody will find rest. A new branch was also initiated by the disciple and nephew of Baba Farid, Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari, known as the Sabri Chisti Sufi Order.
Editor - Fazal Razzaq Faridi
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