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{{Infobox religious biography|religion=[[Islam]]
|honorific_prefix =
|name = Shamas Faqeer R.A.
|image = [[File:Shamas Faqeer.jpg|Shamas Faqeer.jpg]]
|caption =
|title = Shamas Faqir.
|birth_name = Mohammad Sidiq Bhat
|birth_date = 1843
|birth_place = [[Habba Kadal]] [[Srinagar]]
|death_date = 1901
|death_place =
|death_cause =
|resting_place = Krishpore, Khan Saheb, [[Budgam]], [[Kashmir]].
|other_names = Shamas Seab,
|ethnicity = [[Kashmiris]]
|era = 19th century
|region = [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|occupation =
|denomination = [[Ishq]], (Sufi)
|jurisprudence =
|creed =
|movement =
|main_interests = [[Sufism]], Tasawuf
|notable_ideas =
|notable_works = Sufi poetry
|alma_mater =
|Sufi_order = [[Qadiriyya]].
|awards =
|influences =
|influenced =
}}

'''Shamas Faqir''' ( ''' شمس فقیر''') was a [[Kashmir]]i [[Sufism|Sufi]] poet. He belonged to the [[Qadiriyya]] silsila of Sufism.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

'''Shamas Faqir''' was born Mohammad Sidiq Bhat in 1843, to a poor family in Chinkral Mohalla, [[Srinagar]], Kashmir.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} He didn't receive formal education, but became apprenticed to Niama Saeb, a Kashmiri Sufi poet. He became a disciple of Souch Maliar, Abdul Rehman of Burzalla, Atiq-Ullah of Gulab Bagh, Mohammad Jammal and Rasool Saeb.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

When aged 25 he left for [[Amritsar]], in the Indian [[Punjab]], where he became a disciple of another Sufi Saint.{{who|date=March 2019}} After his return from Amritsar he lived in [[Anantnag]], Kashmir, where he married. He returned to his ancestral home in [[Srinagar]] for some time, subsequently meditating for six months in a cave at Qazi Bagh in the Budgam district of Kashmir. Following this he lived in Krishpore.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

Many of his poems are on the theme of a mystic's quest for the primal cause of the universe.{{elucidate|date=March 2019}} Shamas Faqir's poems used the Kashmiri idiom of his time, and also words from Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} His poem ''Merajnama'' recounts Mohammed's spiritual journey to God.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

Shamas Faqir died in 1901, and was buried at Krishpore in Kashmir. He had two sons and a daughter.<ref>Kashir Sufi Shayiree, Volume 1 Published by Jammu & Kashmir Academy Of Art Culture And Languages, Srinagar 1985 pages 460-461.</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Aziz, Afaq (2002), ''Kulliyyat-e Shams Faqir'' (''Complete Works of Shams Faqir''), Srinagar: Nund Rishi Cultural Society
*Mamoon, Khalil & Shafi Shauq (2006), ''Kashmiri Sufi Shairi'' (''Kashmiri Sufi Poetry''), Srinagar: All India Urdu Munch
*Habib, Aamir (2015), "''The Mystics and the Idea of Kashmiri Composite Culture: A Study of Prakash Ram Bhat and Shams Faqir'', M.Phil. diss., Jamia Millia Islamia

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