Fawa'id As-Salikeen | Benefits of Sufi Wayfarers Volume II

Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ)

The book ‘Benefits of Sufi Wayfarers’ (فوائد السالكين) contains utterances (ملفوظات) of Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ) which were written and compiled in Persian by Khwaja Fareeduddin Ganjeshakar (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ) who was the Khalifa of Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ). Malfuzaat (ملفوظات) provide a glimpse of the society in which the Shuyookh lived. These show their love of Allah, concern for people, inner yearnings, and religious advises which were required for the peoples’ exoteric and esoteric reformation during their lifetimes. Khwaja Fareeduddin Ganjeshakar (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ), also known as Baba Farid, was born in (1178 C.E.) in Punjab (Pakistan). He took baya on the hand of Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ) in Multan when Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ) was passing through Multan on his way to Delhi. Later he lived in Delhi along with his Shaikh. After the death of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (رحمتہ اللہ علیہ), he moved back to Punjab and settled in Ajodhan (Pakpattan, Punjab, Pakistan), where he died in 1271 CE.