بابا فرید دا علامتی اظہار پہلے بول/ شلوک راہیں

Baba Fareed is a great name of the golden tradition of Sufism in the subcontinent. He dedicated his life to the sacred cause of disseminating the peaceful message of Islam. He abhorred all kinds of oppression meted out to common people. He condemned the perpetrators of unjustness and stood with the suppressed ones. He reached to the hearts of people through the most effective medium...poetry and that too in their native language i.e. Punjabi. He is rightly considered to be the first Punjabi Sufi as well as classical poet. His services in promoting Punjabi language are of much importance. He laid the principles of Punjabi poetry which helped contouring its future course. He introduced some symbols which Sufi poets of later period employed them in their verse. This article is a study of Baba Fareed's symbolic expression with special reference to his composition of first couplets.