Baba Farid

Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar (c. 4 April 1173 – 7 May 1266), commonly known as Bābā Farīd or Sheikh Farīd (also in Anglicised spelling Fareed, Fareed ud-Deen, Masood, etc.), was a 13th-century Punjabi Muslim mystic, poet and preacher. Revered by Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs alike, he remains one of the most revered Muslim mystics of South Asia during the Islamic Golden Age.

Baba Sheikh Farid: Life And Teachings

 * I fear not the passing of youth if the Beloved desert me not; Youth withers and loses bloom without the sustenance of Love... Saith Farid: Sugar and candy, Sweets and honey, rich milk– All these Lord, are sweet; but nothing to Try devotees so sweet as Thou.
 * Baba Sheikh Farid: Life And Teachings, p. 11


 * Lord, give it not to me to Supplicate favours at another's door; Should such be Thy will, Take then life from this body.
 * Quoted in Guru Granth Sahib, also quoted in Baba Sheikh Farid: Life And Teachings, p. 14


 * Farid, time was when these frail thighs scoured over desert and hill; Now, feeble with age even the prayer-jug looks as though lying miles away.
 * Quoted in Guru Granth Sahib, also quoted in Baba Sheikh Farid: Life And Teachings, p. 18


 * I am all afire I am pain all over. I twist my hands in despair, For I find not my Love. Annoyed art Thou with me, But' tis my own fault, I perceived not the Truth of Thee; I have wasted away my youth, And now can only regret and repent. Rise, O Farid, do your ablutions, Say your morning prayers. The head that bows not to the Lord Should be cut apart from the trunk.
 * Baba Sheikh Farid: Life And Teachings, p. 50


 * No night passes when my sorrow-stricken heart does not bleed, No day I spend that does not completely divest me of honour, Never in my life did I drink a draught of water in peace, Which did not irrigate the dry earth through the channels of my eyes.
 * Baba Sheikh Farid: Life And Teachings, p. 59