Mahir ul Qadri

{{Short description|Writer, poet and novelist}}

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| name = Mahirul Qadri

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| birth_name = Manzoor Hussain

| birth_date = 30 July 1906

| birth_place = Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, British India

| death_date = 12 May 1978 (aged 71)

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| language = Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, English

| nationality = Pakistani/British Indian

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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 Debai on 30 July 1906, in Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh India.{{Cite web|url=http://beta.dawn.com/news/972513/mahir-ul-qadri-a-movement-unto-himself|title=Mahir-ul-Qadri â€" a movement unto himself|date=10 May 2010|website=DAWN.COM}}{{Cite web|url=https://oracleopinions.com/2018/04/18/mahirul-qadri-one-man-army-against-progressive-left/|title=Mahirul Qadri: One man army against progressive left|date=18 April 2018|access-date=17 February 2021|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512173750/https://oracleopinions.com/2018/04/18/mahirul-qadri-one-man-army-against-progressive-left/|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://thecompanion.in/mahirul-qadri-a-poet-and-a-movement-unto-himself/#:~:text=Mahirul%20Qadri%20whose%20real%20name,Bulandshahar%20district%20of%20Uttar%20Pradesh.&text=Mahirul%20Qadri%20was%20the%20ace,against%20the%20progressive%20writers%20movement.|title = Mahirul Qadri : A Poet and a Movement Unto Himself|date = 18 April 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.urdupoint.com/poetry/mahir-ul-qadri.html|title=Mahir Ul Qadri Poetry - Urdu Shayari, Ghazals, Nazams & Poems|website=UrduPoint}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.darsaal.com/poetry/mahirul-qadri.html|title=Mahirul Qadri Poetry - Best Mahirul Qadri Shayari, Sad Ghazals, Love Nazams, Romantic Poetry|website=Darsaal}}