Mahir ul Qadri

Mahirul Qadri (Urdu ماہر القادری) whose real name was Manzoor Hussain was a writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in village Kesar Kalan Tahsil Pilibhit on 30 July 1906, in Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh India.^[1][2] He studied at Aligarh Muslim University. In 1947 he migrated to Karachi Pakistan. He affixed his poetic pen-name Mahir with Qadri due to his spiritual links with the Qadiriyya order of Sufism. This great poet and writer died while participating in a mushaira in Jeddah on 12 May, 1978^[3][4][5]

Poetic Career[]

At the age of 13, he began his poetic career. His first ghazal was published in Bulandshahr Gazette in 1924. Later Mahir-ul-Qadri went to Hyderabad, Deccan, where for 10 years he held key literary positions. He was associated with men like Kishen Pershad Kaul and Nawab Moazzam Jah^[6]

Books[]

Mahirul Qadari published more than twenty books. Some of his works are.

• Durr e Yateem^[7]
• Aatish-e-Khamosh, ^[8]
• Shiraaza,
• Mehsoosat-e-Mahir,
• Naghmaat-e-Mahir,
• Jazbaat-e-Mahir,
• Karvan-e-Hijaz,
• Zakhm-o-Marham,
• Yaad-e-Raftagaan,
• Firdaus,
• Tilism-e-Hayaat.

See also[]

• Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

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