Painting Of "Rahman Baba Praying", Kashmir, Dated 4th Jumadi I, 1213/14th October 1798. Painting Details:- Hazrat Ilyas and Hazrat Khizr seated beside a pond with 'Abd al-Rahman praying in the foreground. The image of His Holiness Elias and His Holiness Khidr and 'Abd al-Rahman praying. Abdur Rahman Baba or Rahman Baba born on 1653 at Bahder Kalay, Hazarkhwani, and Peshawar was a Pashtun poet from Peshawar in the Mughal Empire (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan). He is considered one of the most popular poets among the Pashtuns in Pakistan and Afghanistan. His poetry expresses a peaceful mystical side of local culture which is becoming increasingly threatened by less tolerant interpretations of Islam. Rahman Baba was a member of the Ghoryakhel Mohmand sub-tribe of the Pashtuns, a group which migrated from the Hindu Kush mountains to the Peshawar valley, from the 13th to the 16th century. He grew up in a small pocket of Mohmand settlers on the outskirts ...
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