Pir Roshan Biography | Poet

Bayazid Ansari (Pashto), also known as Pir Roshan or Pir Rokhan (Pashto : , "the enlightened Pir "; Persian) (1525 – 1581/1585), was a Pashtun warrior, poet, Sufi master and intellectual from the Ormur tribe. Pir Roshan wrote mostly in Pashto, but also in Persian and Arabic, while his first language was Ormuri. Pir Roshan is known for founding the 16th-century Roshaniyya movement which gained many followers in the Pashtun region. Pir Roshan wrote the Pashto book Khayr al-Bayan to present his philosophical ideas.