مولانا ماہر القادری اپنے عہد کے بڑے شاعر،ادیب اور نقاد تھے۔انہوں نے ادب میں اسلامی فکر کوفروغ دیا۔ہر صنف سخن میں طبع آزمائی کی۔ مولانا ماہرالقادری نے رومانی،سیاسی،ملی،مذہبی،اور معاشرتی موضوعات پر مختلف اصناف سخن میں بے شمار نظمیں لکھیں۔ تعمیری ادب تخلیق کرنا ان کامقصد زندگی تھا۔ زیر تبصرہ کلیات ماہر القادری کا سارا کلام خواہ وہ مطبوعہ ہو یا غیر مطبوعہ یکجا کیاگیا ہے۔ ماہرالقادری کا وہ کلام جو حمد اورنعت پر مبنی ہے اس سارے کلام کو اس کلیات کے شروع میں جگہ دی گئی ہے اس کے بعد ماہر کے بقیہ کلام کو پیش کیا گیا ہے، بالکل اخیر میں ان کا فارسی کلام بھی موجود ہے۔ کلیات کی ترتیب کافی عمدہ ہے۔

Mahirul Quadri is known as a fine prose writer and a poet who invested in strengthening the classical tradition of Urdu poetry. He was born Manzoor Hussain on 30 July, 1906, at a place called Kaiser Kalan in Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh. He passed his matriculation examination from Aligarh Muslim University and joined a well-known journal called Medina published from Bijnaur. He also got involved with the editing of several other newspapers and journals. He also lived in Bombay for some time where he wrote lyrics for films. Following the Partition of India, he migrated to Pakistan and started published a journal called Faaraan from Karachi which came to acquire a healthy reputation for itself within no time.

Mahirul Quadri wrote in various genres and came to be recognised as a respectable poet, reviewer, critic, biographer, and novelist. He published more than twenty books that have been read with interest over the time. Some of his works are: Aatish-e-Khamosh, Shiraaza, Mehsoosat-e-Mahir, Naghmaat-e-Mahir, Jazbaat-e-Mahir, Karvan-e-Hijaz, Zakhm-o-Marham, Yaad-e-Raftagaan, Firdaus, Tilism-e-Hayaat.

He died of heart failure while participating in a mushaira in Jeddah on 12 May, 1978.