Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) ( ur, ) was a poet of the

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School and a

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saint of the

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-Mujaddadi religious order.

Poetry

Dard's couplet on this illusory life, from 'Ilm-ul-Kitab':https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440328 Khwaja Humair Dard, ''Ilm Ul Kitab'' (in Urdu), p. 476

References

External links

Ilm Ul Kitab

Khwaja Mir Dard at Kavita Kosh
(Hindi)
Khwaja Mir Dard: Life and Ghazals
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dard, Khwaja Mir 1721 births 1785 deaths 18th-century Indian Muslims 18th-century Indian poets Urdu-language poets Sufi poets 18th-century Urdu-language writers Urdu-language religious writers Poets from Delhi Urdu-language writers from British India Urdu-language writers from Mughal India