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Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
Omar Khayyam
A Sufi poet whose name is written in golden letters in the literature of devotional Love. He composed love songs of the Divine - "Ishaq Hakiki". About three hundred years before poetry was composed in English in 14th Cent. A.D. He was a great astologer and a mathametician. It was English poet Fritzirald who translated his poems evidencing intoxication by drinking the Divine wine of Love. Indian Sufis
Sheikh Bahauddin Zakaria was the first Sufi who established "Khankah" in India at Multan. He belonged to Suhravadi sect.
Kwaja Mohiuddin Chisti was another prominent Sufi who settled at Ajmer in 1206 A.D. His Dargah at Ajmer is even at present attracting Hindu and Muslim devotees in thousands.
BABA FARID, another renowned Sufi of India had established his "Khankah" in Punjab. He was a great mystic and a poet. His devotional compositions
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