Bari Aleig was a great intellectual, a renowned journalist and a moving spirit behind the great Progressive Writers' Movement in Urdu Literature. He is considered to be a socialist by a group of critics and friends. His personality and works have been however misinterpreted on account of his support of socialism and socialist revolution in Russia. It has been attempted to show in this paper that on account of his personal circumstances, he championed the cause of socialism because he thought it was in tune with the true spirit of his religion, Islam. Hence his ideology and personal life history have been re-visited in this article to prove that he understood the true spirit of Islam and did not think that there was any opposition between it and socialism. This is the main reason why he was a staunch socialist, without being an atheist. In fact, he was at heart a devout Muslim and a great believer in his religion, Islam.