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| Century old shrine of Baba Fareed-ud Din gutted due to lightning | | People mourn over its damage | |  S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Mar 14: A century-old shrine was completely damaged due to lightning at Garkote area of Uri in this north Kashmmir district on Tuesday night.
The century-old shrine of Baba Fareed (R.A) was gutted in a fire triggered after lightning struck it.
Reports said that flash of fire was seen at the top of the shrine followed by the thunderbolt which resulted in damage to the shrine, adding that a major portion of the shrine was gutted in the fire. Following the incident, scores of people visited the shrine.
According to local residents of Uri, Baba Fareed has spent 40 years in Uri towns Garkote forest devoting himself to the worship of Allah.
The Shrine of Baba Farid is a 13th-century Sufi shrine located in Pakpattan, Pakistan also, that is dedicated to the Sufi mystic Fariduddin Ganjshakar, popularly known as Baba Farid.
The shrine is one of the most important in Pakistan and was among the first Islamic holy sites in South Asia providing the region's Muslims a local focus for devotion.
The shrine is also revered by Sikhs, who include Baba Farid's poetry into the Guru Granth Sahib regarded by Sikhs to be the eternal Guru.
Today the shrine is considered to be the most significant in Punjab and attracts up to two million visitors to its annual Urs festival.
Irshad Ahmad from Uri told early times that, yearly thousands of devotees attend annual Urs of Sufi Saint Baba Fareed-ud-Din Ganjshakar on a hill top in Hajipeer sector on the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri.
The shrine is situated on the hill top in Hajipeer sector, that is close to Line of Control and it takes several hours of journey for devotees to reach the shrine, people are mourning over its damage, said Irshad Khowja.
However a group of local residents of Garkote area said that Baba Fareed-ud-Din Ganjshakar was born in 1173 or 1188 AD at Kothewal village, in Multan in the Punjab region of the Chauhan dynasty.
According to them on July 8, of every year the Urs of Baba Fareed-ud Din is celebrated here with religious fervor and gaiety, people from all walks of life took special prayers and blessing from this Sufi saint. |
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