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  "ar": "خواجة غلام فريد",
  "en": "Khwaja Ghulam Farid",
  "ur": "خواجہ غلام فرید"
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  "ar": "شاعر صوفي سرائكي من البنجاب (1845–1901)، وُلد في تشاتشران بولاية بهاولپور وتوفي فيها ودُفن في ميثانكوت. بايع أخاه الأكبر خواجة فخر جهان في السلسلة الجشتية النظامية وجلس بعده على سجادة الإرشاد، واعتزل ثمانية عشر عاماً في صحراء تشولستان، وخلّف «ديوان فريد» في الكافي السرائيكية وأعمالاً فارسية.",
  "en": "Saraiki Sufi poet of the Punjab (1845–1901), born at Chachran in Bahawalpur State, died there and buried at Mithankot. He took bay'ah with his elder brother Khwaja Fakhr Jahan in the Chishti Nizami silsila and succeeded him on the seat of guidance, spent eighteen years in retreat in the Cholistan desert, and left the Diwan-e-Farid of Saraiki kafis and Persian prose works.",
  "ur": "پنجاب کے سرائیکی صوفی شاعر (1845ء–1901ء)، چاچڑاں شریف (ریاست بہاولپور) میں پیدا ہوئے، وہیں وصال ہوا اور کوٹ مٹھن میں مدفون ہیں۔ سلسلہ چشتیہ نظامیہ میں اپنے بڑے بھائی خواجہ فخر جہاں سے بیعت ہوئے اور ان کے بعد سجادہ نشین بنے، اٹھارہ برس روہی (چولستان) میں رہے، اور سرائیکی کافیوں کا «دیوان فرید» اور فارسی نثری تصانیف چھوڑیں۔"
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  "latest": 1901.5605385462766
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   "edtf": "1845-11-25",
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   "note": "The Urdu article gives the precise date, Tuesday 25 November 1845, corresponding to 25 Dhu al-Qa'da 1261 AH, at Chachran, and Wikidata's first birth value agrees. The English article gives only circa 1841/1845 — one scholarly work it quotes dates him 1841–1901 — and Wikidata carries a second value, 30 December 1845. The Urdu date is followed; the year 1845 is also the lane queue's. Chachran has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion, agreeing with the Urdu article's own Hijri date.",
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   "note": "Died 24 July 1901 at Chachran (the English and Urdu articles agree; Wikidata's first death value agrees, its second, 19 June 1901, is not followed) and was buried at Mithankot, where his tomb stands. Neither Chachran nor Mithankot has a place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "value": "Khurshid Alam",
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    "note": "Two independent texts state his personal Sufi affiliation and discipleship, which is the lane's test for a sufi segment. The English text's lead calls him a Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur belonging to the Chishti Order, resting on Shackle's Encyclopaedia of Islam entry and other scholarship. The Urdu text, independently written from the traditional biographies, states that he belonged to the Chishti Nizami silsila, that at thirteen he took bay'ah with his elder brother Khwaja Fakhr Jahan, and that on his brother's death he succeeded him as sajjada-nashin. No madhhab segment is recorded: an Ahl-e-Sunnat Hanafi reading appears only in the Urdu article's infobox school-of-thought field, and a single infobox never counts; no consulted text names his school. The Arabic article is a translation of the English and is counted as the same text family.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Khwaja Ghulam Farid' (revision 1371956354), Urdu Wikipedia 'خواجہ غلام فرید' (revision 10969815) and Arabic Wikipedia 'خواجة غلام فريد' (revision 76789104), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q60803 (item revision 2554754427). The Arabic article is a translation of the English and is counted as the same text family; the Urdu article is independently written. Existence checks by name fragments (farid, ghulam farid, غلام فرید), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man; person/ibn-al-farid is the classical poet Umar ibn al-Farid, a different man. His teacher and murshid, his elder brother Khwaja Fakhr Jahan, has no person record, so no student_of edge is written; the member_of edge to group/chishtiyya is written once, here, in the subject's own record. The lane queue gives 1845–1901.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "خواجة غلام فريد (25 تشرين الثاني 1845 – 24 تموز 1901) شاعر صوفي من بهاولبور في البنجاب في القرن التاسع عشر، ينتمي إلى الطريقة الجشتية، وكتب معظم عمله بلغته الأم الملتانية التي تطورت إلى السرائيكية، وكتب أيضاً بالبنجابية والأردية والبشتوية والسندية والهندية والفارسية.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar} وتعطي المقالة الأردية مولده في تشاتشران يوم 25 تشرين الثاني 1845 الموافق 25 ذي القعدة 1261هـ، بينما تؤرخه المقالة الإنجليزية بحوالي 1841/1845.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في فرع من عائلة كوريجا تدّعي النسب من عمر بن الخطاب عبر أحد المهاجرين الأوائل إلى السند، وكانت العائلة قد تأسست أولياء مرتبطين بالطريقة السهروردية ثم تحول ولاؤها إلى الطريقة الجشتية.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar} توفي والده وهو في الثامنة تقريباً فربّاه أخوه الأكبر خواجة فخر الدين، وتلقى تعليماً رسمياً جيداً في قصر صادق محمد الرابع نواب بهاولبور.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar} وتذكر المقالة الأردية أنه بايع أخاه الأكبر فخر جهان وهو في الثالثة عشرة، ولما توفي أخوه ومرشده وهو في السابعة والعشرين جلس بعده على سجادة الإرشاد.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} أدى الحج سنة 1875 ثم اعتزل في صحراء تشولستان المعروفة بروهي للخلوة فقضى فيها ثمانية عشر عاماً.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "من أبرز أعماله «مثنوي معدن العشق» (1882) و«ديوان فريد» والأثران الفارسيان «مناقب المحبوبية» و«فوائد فريدية».{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar} وتعد المقالة الأردية في ديوانه السرائيكي 271 كافية، وتشير إلى تمكنه من الموسيقى إذ أتقن تسعة وثلاثين راغاً وراغنية ونظم الكافيات فيها جميعاً.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته وأثره",
     "markdown": "توفي في تشاتشران في 24 تموز 1901 ودُفن في ميثانكوت.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar} وتُمنح جائزة أدبية باسمه، جائزة خواجة غلام فريد، سنوياً من أكاديمية الآداب الباكستانية، وسُميت باسمه جامعة خواجة فريد للهندسة وتكنولوجيا المعلومات في رحيم يار خان، ويُعد ضريحه في راجانبور من أكثر الأضرحة زيارة في باكستان.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-khwaja-ghulam-farid}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Khwaja Ghulam Farid (25 November 1845 – 24 July 1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur in the Punjab, belonging to the Chishti Order; most of his work is in his mother tongue, Multani — now known as Saraiki — though he also wrote in Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Hindi and Persian.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en} The Urdu article gives his birth at Chachran on 25 November 1845, corresponding to 25 Dhu al-Qa'da 1261 AH, while the English article dates him only circa 1841/1845.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "He was born into a branch of the Koreja family that claimed descent from Umar, the second caliph, through an early migrant to Sindh; the family had been established as saints of the Suhrawardi order and later transferred their allegiance to the Chishti order.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en} His father died when he was about eight, and he was brought up by his elder brother, Khwaja Fakhr al-Din, receiving a fine formal education at the royal palace of Sadiq Muhammad IV, the Nawab of Bahawalpur.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en} The Urdu article states that at thirteen he took bay'ah with his elder brother Fakhr Jahan, and that when his brother and murshid died, when Farid was twenty-seven, he succeeded him as sajjada-nashin.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} He performed the hajj in 1875 and then retired to the Cholistan desert, called Rohi, for chilla retreats totalling eighteen years.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "His most significant works include the Masnavi Madan-e-Ishq (1882), the Diwan-e-Farid, and the Persian prose works Manaqib-e-Mehboobia and Fawaid Faridia.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en} The Urdu article counts 271 kafis in his Saraiki diwan and remarks on his mastery of music, saying he commanded thirty-nine rags and raginis and composed kafis in all of them.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "He died at Chachran on 24 July 1901 and was buried at Mithankot.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en} A literary award named after him, the Khwaja Ghulam Farid Award, is given yearly by the Pakistan Academy of Letters; the Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology in Rahim Yar Khan bears his name, and his shrine at Rajanpur is counted among the ten most visited shrines in Pakistan.{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-khwaja-ghulam-farid}}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "خواجہ غلام فرید (25 نومبر 1845ء – 24 جولائی 1901ء) بہاولپور، پنجاب سے تعلق رکھنے والے انیسویں صدی کے صوفی شاعر تھے، جن کا تعلق سلسلہ چشتیہ نظامیہ سے تھا؛ ان کا زیادہ تر کلام مادری زبان سرائیکی میں ہے، تاہم انھوں نے پنجابی، اردو، پشتو، سندھی، ہندی اور فارسی میں بھی شاعری کی۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} انگریزی مضمون ان کی تاریخ پیدائش تقریباً 1841/1845 بتاتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی",
     "markdown": "ان کا خاندان کوریجہ قریشی فاروقی تھا، جس کا سلسلہ نسب عمر فاروق تک جاتا ہے؛ ان کے بزرگ ابتدا میں سہروردی سلسلے سے وابستہ تھے اور بعد میں چشتیہ کی طرف منتقل ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en} آٹھ برس کی عمر میں والد کا انتقال ہوا تو پرورش بڑے بھائی خواجہ فخر جہاں (فخر الدین) نے کی، اور نواب صادق محمد چہارم کے شاہی محل میں انھیں اساتذہ سے تعلیم ملتی رہی۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} تیرہ برس کی عمر میں انھوں نے اپنے بڑے بھائی سے بیعت کی، اور ستائیس برس کی عمر میں مرشد و بھائی کے انتقال پر سجادہ نشین بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} انھوں نے 1875ء میں حج کیا اور پھر اٹھارہ برس روہی (چولستان) میں گزارے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصانیف",
     "markdown": "ان کی مشہور تصانیف میں «مثنوی معدنِ عشق» (1882ء)، «دیوان فرید» اور فارسی نثر کی «مناقبِ محبوبیہ» اور «فوائدِ فریدیہ» شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} ان کے سرائیکی دیوان میں 271 کافیاں ہیں، اور علم موسیقی میں انھیں 39 راگ راگنیوں پر عبور حاصل تھا اور ان سب میں انھوں نے کافیاں کہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصال و اثرات",
     "markdown": "ان کا وصال 24 جولائی 1901ء کو چاچڑاں شریف میں ہوا اور مزار کوٹ مٹھن میں ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur} پاکستان اکادمی ادبیات ہر سال ان کے نام پر خواجہ غلام فرید ایوارڈ دیتی ہے، رحیم یار خان کی جامعہ خواجہ فرید ان کے نام پر ہے، اور ان کا مزار پاکستان کے دس سب سے زیادہ زیارت کیے جانے والے مزارات میں شمار ہوتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}"
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-khwaja-ghulam-farid-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-khwaja-ghulam-farid}}"
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