Zahid Abrol



Vijay Kumar Abrol, better known by his pen name Zahid Abrol, is an Indian Urdu poet who did the first Urdu translation of the 12th century Sufi-poet Baba Farid's shlokas and shabads.

Poetic career
Andha Khuda was his first collection published in 1978 followed by Ek Saf-ha Purnam in 1986. His later publication is the poetic translated version – Faridnama – exhibits the original Gurmukhi version, its Roman transcript, Urdu translation in verse in Urdu and Devnagari scripts in a well produced volume and has won accolades from experts. This way he has reproduced tributes paid to Sheikh Baba Farid's poetry in all the three languages.

Publications

 * Andha Khuda – Jalandhar, Deepak Publishers - (1978)
 * Ek Saf-ha Purnam – Hoshiarpur, Charvak Publications - (1986)
 * Faridnama - Poetical Translation of Shiekh Farid's Punjabi Verses in Urdu and Hindi Scripts -[Delhi, Ajanta Books International, ISBN 978-81-202-0587-1 – (2003)
 * Darya Darya Sahil Sahil - Urdu Ghazals in Urdu and Hindi separately - (2014/2015)
 * Khwabon Ke Ped Taley - Urdu Nazams in Urdu and Hindi separately - (2016)
 * A Three-Step Journey - Poetic translations of Zahid Abrol's selected Urdu Poetry into English by Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma - (2016).