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navigation, search Abdul Hameed Masho Gagar.ماشوگاگر Died circa
1732 Residence about 14 km from Peshawar City on Kohat Road
Ethnicity Pashtun Known for Pashto Poetry Religion Islam  Abdul
Hameed Mashokhel (Pashto: عبدالحميد ماشوخېل‎ - also known as
Abdul Hamid Baba), was a Pashtun poet and Sufi figure.[1]
Abdul Hameed Masho Gagar was born in the second half of the 17th
century at Mashu Gagar, a small village controlled by the
Kudrizi branch of the Mohmand clan, a Pashtun tribe. Hameed
travelled to Peshawar, where he undertook his education, and
became a priest. At this point, Hameed was a man of considerable
stature among intellectuals, and students from a number of
surrounding districts came to receive instruction from him.[2]
Hameed's poetry was written primarily in the Pashto language.
His poems generally had a moral to them, and were often tinged
with tones of contempt for the world and its lack of virtue. The
morals of his poems were bas