Abdur Rahman Baba Foundation (ARBF) is a self-funded organization, Initiated by one of his grandson Advocate Salman Ali Khan by attributing one of the renowned person from their ancestors a legendary Pashto Sufi Poet and spiritual person "Abdur Rahman Baba" and by supporting the conscious class of society specially Orphans, widows, poor, disabled and neglected persons in all working
areas without any discrimination against s*x, race, caste, color, religion and social origin. The basic object behind the establishment of Abdur Rahman Baba Foundation (ARBF) was to empower the deprived and un-accessed class of the society and to make all possible efforts to bring them in the mainstream of life. The Pashtun Sufi master Saidu Baba said "if the Pashtuns were ever asked to pray on a book other than the Quran, they would undoubtedly go for Rahman Baba's work." Abdur Rahman Baba (1653–1711) (Pashto: عبدالرحمان بابا), or Rahmān Bābā( رحمان بابا), was a Pashtun poet from Peshawar in the Mughal Empire(modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). He, along with his contemporary Khushal Khan Khattak, is considered one of the most popular poets among the Pashtuns in Pakistan, Afghanistan and amongst all Pushtons living in the world
Rahman Baba was a member of the Ghoryakhel Mohmand sub-tribe of the Pashtuns, a group which migrated from the Hindu Kush mountains to the Peshawar valley, from the 13th to the 16th century. Rahman Baba family were village Maliks (chieftains), However, Rahman Baba was more likely to have been a simple, though learned man. As he himself claimed: "Though the wealthy drink water from a golden cup, I prefer this clay bowl of mine
Abdur Rahman Baba died in 1715 CE, and his tomb is housed in a large domed shrine, or mazar, on the southern outskirts of Peshawar (Ring Road Hazar Khwani). The site of his grave is a popular place for poets and mystics to collect to recite his popular poetry. In April each year, there is a larger gathering to celebrate his anniversary. A collection of Rahman's poetry, called the Dīwān ("anthology") of Rahman Baba, contains 343 poems, most of which are written in his native Pashto. The Dīwān of Rahman Baba was in wide circulation by 1728. There are over 25 original hand-written manuscripts of the Dīwān scattered in various libraries worldwide, including ten in the Pashto Academy in Peshawar, four in the British Library, three in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, as well as copies in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the University Library Aligath. The first printed version was collected by the Anglican Missionary T.P.
