Yousaf Saleem Chishti (Urdu: پروفیسر یوسف سلیّم چشتی 1895 – 1984), popularly known as Yusuf Salim Chishti,[1] was a Pakistani scholar and writer.
He recorded conversations in his diaries but in 1955 most of them were destroyed by an upsurge in Ravi, at Lahore.
He is famous for his commentaries on Allama Muhammad Iqbal's works[4] and these commentaries are particularly known to be grounded in philosophy and comparative religion, as he was particularly knowledgeable in Hinduism, as "during his stay in Lahore, he met Lala Lajpat Roy Lahori and on his advice studied Vedas and Shastras from a Hindu pundit.
Later, Swami Prakash Anand taught him Upanishads, Gita and Hindu philosophy of mysticism.
"[5] He has written many books and his major subject was Iqbal and his poetry.