"Baba Farid", born in 1173 CE in the village of Kothewal near Multan, hailed from a family that had migrated from Kabul to Punjab. He followed the Chishti order and, was one of the first Sufi saints to write his verses in Punjabi. Many of these verses are enshrined in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhs.