Pakpattan
Shrine of Baba Farid, the first great poet of Punjabi, whose verses are in the Guru Granth Sahib.
Pakpattan, the 'ferry of the pure', on the old course of the Sutlej in the south of the Punjab, was once called Ajodhan, a ferry town on the road from Multan to Delhi. Baba Sheikh Farid, the Chishti Sufi and the first great poet of Punjabi, settled here in the thirteenth century and died here in 1266.
His shrine is one of the most important in South Asia. Every year during his urs in the month of Muharram the Bahishti Darwaza, the gate of paradise, a narrow door in the shrine, is opened, and tens of thousands of pilgrims squeeze through it, believing that whoever passes through will go to paradise.
Guru Nanak is said to have met Farid's successor Sheikh Ibrahim here, and it was from Pakpattan that Farid's verses came into the Guru Granth Sahib.
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Teacher to disciple, simplified. Dashed lines skip generations: the Qadiri saints of the Punjab belonged to Abdul Qadir Jilani's order but lived centuries after him. Darker boxes are poets and saints of the Punjab with their own pages. Mian Mir was a friend of Guru Arjan; Sikh tradition says he laid the foundation stone of the Harmandir Sahib.