Dr. Karamat Ali Mughal
بابا فرید الدین گنج شکر دے کلام وچ موت دا فلسفہ
(Philosophy of Death in the Verse of Baba Farid-ud-Din Masood Ganj Shakar)
Keywords
Baba Farid, Philosophy of Death, Punjabi Poetry, Punjabi Literature, Life after Death, Eternal Life, Ultimate Success.
Abstract
Baba Farid has described reality of the transitory nature of life and death in his poetry. His style of description is not ordinary but philosophical. That is why he teaches morals by making the body, soul, soil and grave the subject of his poetry. For him, the shedding of body and soul is death to the world and also a means of connecting with God in reality, from which the journey towards eternal life begins. This eternal life can only be found after death, so Baba Farid called death a creation. Baba Farid while describing the philosophy of death does not forget life at all, the ultimate success is possible only in always remembering the impermanence of this life, which is the reward of the hereafter for a diligent person. In this article, philosophy of death as narrated by Baba Farid has been analyzed with reference to his poetry.