in Punjab, India. Another Tughlaq's court poet Amir Khusrau in his Tughlaq Nama neglects any mention of Tughlaq's arrival in India from a foreign land, presuming he was born in India. His own court poet states that Tughluq described himself frankly as a man of no importance ("awara mard") in his early life and career, something that all of his audience knew. Tughlaq Nama declares Tughlaq to have been a minor chief of humble origins. Ferishta (an Iranian historian of the Deccan), based on inquiries at Lahore, wrote that the knowledgeable historians and the books of India had neglected to mention any clear statement on the origin of the dynasty, but wrote that there was a rural founding myth that Tughlaq's father was a Turkic slave of Balban who made an alliance with a Jatt chieftain of Punjab and that Tughlaq was a result of the marriage with a Jatt mother of Punjab. However there is no contemporary sources corroborate this statement. The historian Fouzia Ahmed points out that as per the Tughlaq Nama, Tughlaq was not a Balbanid slave because he was not part of the old Turkic nobility, as his family was of humble origins which was newly emergent only during Alai rule. Instead, in the Tughlaq Nama Tughlaq expressed his loyalty to the ethnically heterogenous Alai regime as his benefactor through which he first entered military service but makes no mention of Balban because his father was never part of Balban's old Sultanate household. However, this genealogical link with the Punjab paved the way for several other linkages, such his brother's marriage with the daughter of a Punjabi Bhatti chief, and the patronization of the sufi shrine of Baba Farid at Pakpattan. The Sultans held the family of Punjabi Sufi poet Baba Farid in reverence because the home of the dynasty of Dipalpur was close to Pakpattan, and Sultan Muhammad Shah married his daughter to the grandson of Baba Farid. The link with the region was also exemplified in the support of the Punjabi Khokhar tribes to Ghazi Malik, who played the central role in his rise to the monarchy. His own court poet, Amir Khusro, wrote a war ballad known as the Vaar in the Punjabi language for the Sultan describing the introduction to his rise to the throne against Khusrau Shah. Later leading Tughlaq Sultans continued to merge the symbols of the Baba Farid shrine