Fariduddin Ganjshakar the shrine jam packed. Baba Farid, as he is commonly known, has his poetry included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the most sacred scripture of Sikhism, which includes 123 (or 134) hymns composed by Farid. Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the 5th guru of Sikhism, included these hymns himself in the Adi Granth, the predecessor of the Guru Granth Sahib. The town of Faridkot in Punjab, India is named after him. In 1989, on the 800th Birth Anniversary of Baba Farid, Pakistan Post Office issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honor. Fariduddin Ganjshakar Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar (c. 4 April
Guru Granth Sahib in 1708, Baba Deep Singh and Bhai Mani Singh prepared many copies of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib for distribution. The text consists of 1,430 "angs" (pages) and 6,000 "śabads" (line compositions), which are poetically rendered and set to a rhythmic ancient north Indian classical form of music. The bulk of the scripture is divided into sixty "rāags", with each Granth rāga subdivided according to length and author. The hymns in the scripture are arranged primarily by the "rāgas" in which they are read. The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhī script, in various languages, including Lahnda (Western