Farīd is the author of a small collection of poems in early Panjābī that is preserved in the Sikh scriptures. This collection, the Ādi Grant̲h̲ (AG) , was compiled in the Gurmukhi script by the fifth Sikh guru, Arjan, in 1013/1604. It comprises four short hymns (shabad) and 112 couplets (shalok) composed mostly in the common mediaeval Indian metrical form known as dohā and its close variants (AG , 488, 794, 1377-84, translated in Macauliffe, 6:391-414; Talib, 97-124). There has been some dispute about whether the