Qadir Yar

Qadir Yar (1802–1892), born Qadar Baksh, was a Muslim Sandhu Jat[1][2] and a poet of the Punjabi language.

[3] Qadir Yar was born in the village Machhike, in Gujranwala District in Punjab (now in Pakistan) during the rule of the Sikh Empire.

[4] He was the court poet of the Lahore Sikh Darbar, during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

[5] Qadir Yar started his literary career with Mehraj Nama (1832), the longest poem composed by him and containing 1014 couplets.

The poem gives a fictional account of Prophet Muhammad's journey through the seven skies.