Abdul Hamid Baba Masho Gagar

Abdul Hameed Mashogagar (; died 1732), also known as Abdul Hamid Baba, was a Pashtun poet and Sufi figure.

Biography Abdul Hameed baba Mashogagar was born in the second half of the 17th century (1664-1724 onward) at Mashogagar, a small village near Badaber Peshawar, 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.

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 based on Sufism, as a large proportion of other Muslim poetry was. "the Saadi of the Pascho language"

Hameed's major works, Love's Fascination, The King and the Beggar and Pearls and Corals have all been translated into English.