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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]]<ref>{{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}}</ref> and published in his 1924 collection ''[[The Call of the Marching Bell|Bang-i-dara]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It deals with the subject of the political future of Muslims. The poem is an imaginary conversation between Iqbal and [[Khidr|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.<ref name="Omar">{{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}}</ref> Iqbal tells him about many things he has failed to understand in life and Khizr explains to him the secrets of those things.<ref name="Omar"/> The three main topics of the conversation were "the secret of life", "the Governments" and the "downfall of Muslims".

[[File:Iqbal and son Javid in 1930.jpg|right|220x220px]]

== See also ==
* [[Index of Muhammad Iqbal–related articles]]
==References==
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