Explore Salok Sheikh Farid Ji (Salok 1-15)

The Guru Granth Sahib Project is pleased to launch the annotation of the first fifteen saloks by Sheikh Farid Ji, one of the fifteen Bhagat contributors to the Guru Granth Sahib. Saloks traditionally do not have a prescribed rag (musical mode). His compositions in the Guru Granth Sahib include four Sabads and one hundred and twelve saloks. The four Sabads were previously published in July, and the saloks will be released in five parts from August through December this year.

The first fifteen saloks by Sheikh Farid Ji convey that the span of every being’s life is predetermined and finite. The being has come into this world to engage in devotion of IkOankar (the Divine) and to live a life of humility and non-attachment. Yet, burdened by the attachment to transient things and relationships, they wander, unaware of their true purpose.