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Khuda Bakhsh Sheikh

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Khuda Bakhsh (or Bux) Sheikh (Urdu: خُدا بخش شیخ‎, Hindi: ख़ुदा बख़्श शेख़) was a noted Urdu writer and poet from the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. He has written poetry in Arabic, Urdu and Persian.

He was a follower of a Sufi master Waris Ali Shah. His book Tohmat-ul-Asfiya is the biography of Waris Ali Shah. In 1877 he collected Waris Shah's sayings in a book titled Malfuzat-i-Haji Waris 'Ali Shah.

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Khuda Bakhsh Sheikh Wikipedia