Fariduddin

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Saraiki (Pakistan)

Meaning

a masculine name honoring Baba Farid — Fariduddin Ganjshakar — the twelfth and thirteenth century Sufi saint whose poetry in early Punjabi and Saraiki forms part of the Guru Granth Sahib and who remains the most venerated spiritual figure of the Saraiki-speaking region centred on Pakpattan in southern Punjab; to name a son Fariduddin in this region is to place him under the spiritual patronage of a saint whose verses on the soul's journey, the pain of separation from the divine, and the ethics of love and humility have shaped the moral imagination of the entire western Punjab for eight centuries; the name carries enormous weight as both a religious designation and a declaration of cultural identity rooted in the Sufi strand of South Asian Islam

Gender

male