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Shamas Faqir (Kashmiri:شَمَس فَقیٖر) or Shams Faqīr^[1] was a KashmiriSufi poet. He belonged to the Qadiriyya silsila of Sufism.^{[citation needed]}

Although there are no authentic biographical records,^[2] Mohammad Sidiq Bhat is believed to have been born in to a poor family in Chinkral Mohalla, Habba Kadal Srinagar, Kashmir.^[3] He didn't receive formal education, but became apprenticed to Mohammad Na‘īm (locally known as Nyam-Saeb), a Kashmiri Sufi poet. He became a disciple of Souch Maliar, Abdul Rehman of Barzulla, Atiq-Ullah of Gulab Bagh, Mohammad Jammal and Rasool Saeb.^[4]

When he was 25, he left for Amritsar, in the Indian Punjab, where he became a disciple of another Sufi Saint Rasūl Shāh Hākih-Tsr.^[5] 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 Qa