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, , 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