His mother died when he was 4 years old. When his father Khwaja Khuda Bakhsh died, he was orphaned around the age of 12. Then he was raised by his brother Khwaja Fakhr-ud-Din and grew up to be a scholar and writer. He has mastered Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Saraki, Sindhi and Braj Bhasha, and also writes poetry in Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian and Braj Bhasha. .



Nawab Sadeq Mohammad Khan V of Bahawalpur brought Khwaja Farid to his palace in Ahmad pur sharkia when he was 8 years old, and was taught by a scholar Khwaja Ghulam Farid was 28 years old.