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| name = 'Bhai Sahib ''Bhai Nand Lal''Ji' <br> '''ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ''' <br> {{nq|''بھائی نند لال سنگھ''}}
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| pseudonym = '''''Goya'''''
| birth_name = Nand Lal
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| death_place = [[Multan]], [[Sikh Empire]] <small> (now [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]])</small>
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'''Bhai Nand Lal "Goya"''' ([[Persian language|Persian]]: {{nq|بھائی نند لال سنگھ}}, [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]: ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ) (1633–1713) was a 17th-century [[Sikhs|Sikh]] poet in the [[Punjab region]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YwNAwAAQBAJ&q=bhai+nand+lal+persian+oxford&pg=PA169|title=The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies|last1=Singh|first1=Pashaura|last2=Fenech|first2=Louis E.|date=2014-03-27|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780191004117|language=en|page=168}}</ref> He was one of the fifty-two poets of [[Guru Gobind Singh]]'s [[Durbar (court)|Darbar]] (court). Bhai Sahib lived in [[Multan]] and later became a courtier in Darbar of [[Guru Gobind Singh]]; the tenth [[Sikh]] Guru.

==Life==
He was provided education in [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], and [[Mathematics]] during his early years. At the age of 12 he started writing poetry in [[Persian language|Persian]] under the pen name '''Goya'''. At the age of 17 he lost his mother, and two years later his father. In 1652, he went to [[Multan]] and settled over there, and was married to a [[Sikh]] girl. Thereafter, he became inclined towards [[Sikhism]], met [[Guru Gobind Singh]] in 1682 and later became [[Amritdhari]]. In 1707, he finally left his job with Prince Muazzam and appeared before [[Guru Gobind Singh]]. He came to [[Multan]] again in 1712 after the death of [[Bahadur Shah I]] and started a school of [[Arabic]] and [[Persia]]n. He died in 1713 when in [[Multan]].

==Works==
Some of his major works include:
# Diwan-i-Goya
# Zindaginama
# Ganjnama
# Tankhahnama
# Jot Bigas
# Arz-ul-Alfaz
# Tausif-O-Sana
# Khatimat (poetry)
# Dastoor-ul-Insha
# Faiz-i-Nur

==See also==

* [[Bhai Gurdas]]
* [[Giani Sant Singh Maskeen]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.bhainandlal.com Bhai Nand Lal Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120420225547/http://bcsikhs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=500 Ghazals of Bhai Nand Lal with Explanation]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWIGVI3qINbg&v=WIGVI3qINbg&gl=US Bhai Nand Lal's Ghazals - Giani Sant Singh Maskeen (live)]

{{Sikhism}}
{{Persian literature}}

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[[Category:Indian Sikhs]]
[[Category:History of Sikhism]]
[[Category:History of Punjab]]
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[[Category:People from Ghazni Province]]
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->Anandpur Singh at 09:46, 19 October 2021