Poet & writer
Qadir Yar
ਕਾਦਰ ਯਾਰقادر یار
Poet of Puran Bhagat, the legend of the prince of Sialkot, and of a ballad on Hari Singh Nalwa.
Qadir Yar was born around 1802 at Machhike near Gujranwala, a Sandhu Jat Muslim, and lived through the Sikh Empire.
He wrote a famous siharfi, an acrostic poem, on Puran Bhagat, the prince of Sialkot, and another on Raja Rasalu. He also wrote a var on Hari Singh Nalwa, praising the great Sikh general.
His Puran Bhagat is the version of the legend that the whole of the Punjab learned by heart.
