How to show back button on the RootViewController of the UINavigationController?

I don't believe it's possible to pop the root view controller off the navigation stack, but you can fake it with a UIButton added as the custom view of a UIBarButtonItem:

UIButton *b = [[UIButton alloc]initWithButtonType:UIButtonTypeCustom];[b setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"BackImage.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];[b addTarget:self action:@selector(back:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];self.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithCustomView:b];

A suitable PSD of iOS UI elements can be found here.

Faizan,

Helium3 comment makes sense.

I suppose that your button is needed to dismiss the controller presented modally, is it true? Correct if I'm wrong.

If so, you could just create a new UIBarButtonItem and set is a left (or right) button for the UINavigationController navigationItem. To not break encapsulation create it in the viewDidLoad method for your SurahTableViewController controller.

- (void)viewDidLoad{    [super viewDidLoad];    // make attention to memory leak if you don't use ARC!!!    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Close"           style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered             target:self             action:@selector(close:)];}-(void)close:(id)sender{    // to dismiss use dismissViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)flag completion:(void (^)(void))completion    // dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: is deprecated    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{ NSLog(@"controller dismissed"); }];}

Since the SurahTableViewController is a root view controller in a navigation controller you can't go back to the root because you're already there. Since you've presented it modally from something else, you need to put a button on the nav bar that has an IBAction which calls:

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];