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Hazrat Khawaja Ghulam Farid Koreja or Khawaja Farid was a 19th Century Punjabi Sufi poet. He was a scholar and writer who knew several different languages. He belonged to Chishti-Nizami Sufi order. He was born in (1845 AD) and died (1901 AD) at Chachran Town and was buried at Mithankot, Punjab. His mother died when he was four years old and he was orphaned around the age of twelve when his father, Khwaja Khuda Bakhsh, died. He was then brought up by his elder brother, Khwaja Fakhr-ud-Din, and grew up to become a scholar and writer. He mastered Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, Sindhi, and Braj Bhasha, and also wrote poems in Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian, and Braj Bhasha languages.

Nawab Sadiq Mohammad Khan V of Bahawalpur took Khawaja Farid to his palace at Ahmadpur Sharqia for his religious education by a scholar, when he was 8 years old. His elder brother Khawaja Fakhr-ud-Din who had brought him up after his parents' deaths, also died when Khawaja Ghulam Farid was 28 years old. Khawaja Farid then left for Rohi area or Cholistan Desert and lived 18 years there. Hazrat Khwaja Ghulam Farid Koreja performed Hajj, Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah, in 1876.

His most significant works include:

Deewan-e-Farid (poem collection in Multani language, Khawaja Farid composed as many as 272 poems of high literary merit
Manaqab-e-Mehboobia (in Persian prose)
Fawaid-e-Faridia (in Persian prose)
In his poetry, he frequently uses the symbolism of a desert. Sometimes he touched the topic of political affairs, opposing the British rule in Bahawalpur state.
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