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Hazrat Fariduddin Masud Gunj Shakar known reverentially as Baba Farid or simply as Fariduddin Ganj Shakar, was a 12th Century Muslim preacher and mystic. He was a great Sufi master who was born in (1179 AD) at a village called Kothewal, Multan to Jamal-ud-din Suleiman. He was one of the founding fathers of the Chishti Sufi order. He received his early education at Multan, which had become a centre for Muslim education; it was there that he met his teacher Qutab-ud-Din Bakhtiar Kaki (RA), a noted Sufi saint.