Khizr-i-Rah

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The "Khizr-i-Rah" ("The Guide of the Path") is a poem in Urdu written in 1922 by Sir Muhammad Iqbal{{cite book|author=Iftikhar Dadi|title=Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbrqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA74|date=2010-05-15|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-9596-2|page=74}} and published in his 1924 collection Bang-i-dara.{{cite book|author=Iqbal Singh Sevea|title=The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrItm_F6wncC&pg=PA23|date=2012-06-29|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-00886-1|page=23}} It deals with the subject of the political future of Muslims. The poem is an imaginary conversation between Iqbal and Khizr (The Guide). Iqbal, while sitting alone one night, sees Khizr appear before him who asks him about the cause of his loneliness and restlessness.{{cite journal |last1=Irfan |first1=Omar |title=Khiżr-i Rāh: The Pre-Eminent Guide to Action in Muhammad Iqbal's Thought |journal=Islamic Studies |date=2004 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=39–50 |jstor=20837324}} Iqbal tells him about many things he has failed to understand in life and Khizr explains to him the secrets of those things. The three main topics of the conversation were "the secret of life", "the Governments" and the "downfall of Muslims".

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