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Yaas Bihari (یاس بیهاری) Full name : Syed Mohammad Ilyas Firdausi, Born in 1886 AD ( 25th Zilqaad 1305 Hijra) at Bihar sharif, Nalanda India His father Syed Amin Ahmed Firdausi( Janab Huzoor) was famous nineteenth century sufi master and Sajjada nasheen of Bihar sharif khanqah-e- Firdausia, a descendant of makhdumulmulk Sheikh Sharfuddin maneri. He was Physician, Persian writer and Poet of modern Urdu literature in Bihar as well as a freedom fighter and companion of Mahatma Gandhi during Indias freedom movement in Nawada and Bihar. Yaas Bihari is his poetic titular name and his fame in Nawada was as Hakim Ilyas as he practiced Medicine in Nawada town for more than fifty years.

Hahas translated from Persian to fluent Urdu the First Sixty letters of the famous persian book on Theosophy titled as Hundred Lettrs ( Maktoobat-e-sadee)

A collection of his urdu poetry remains unpublished but preserved in Maner sharif within the collection of Prof Syed Shah Muradullah Firdousi maneri, author of ( Asaar-e-Maner)

A phD thesis on the literary works of Yaas Bihari Syed Mohammad Ilyas Firdausi exists in Department of Urdu, Patna University. He died on 14 th September 1960 in Bihar Sharif and buried at a corner near the southern gate of Biharsharif larger graveyard named as Bardi dargah beside the shrine of great Sufi master makhdumulmulk Sheikh Sharfuddin maneri.