Ilyas Qadri

Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri Razvi Ziaee (Urdu: محمد الیاس قادری رضوی ضیائی‎), known as Attar ( عطار), is a Sufi Islamic preacher, Sunni Muslim scholar and founding leader of Dawat-e-Islami - a non-political religious organisation with presence in nearly two hundred countries of the world. He is based in Karachi, Pakistan. Attar is the author of Faizan-e-Sunnat.[1]

Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri
ابو بلال محمد اِلیاس عطّارؔ قادِری رَضَوی
TitleAttar, Ameer e Ahlesunnat
Personal
Born
Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri

(1950-07-12) 12 July 1950[1]
Karachi, Pakistan
ReligionIslam
NationalityPakistani
MovementIslamic
Notable work(s)Faizan-e-Sunnat
Known forFounder of Dawat-e-Islami
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Years active2013 — Present
Subscribers679 thousand[2]
Total views66.5 million[2]
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Updated: 18 September 2021.
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Family background

His forefathers were from the village of Kutyanah in Junagarh, India. His father served the Hanafi Memon Mosque in Sri Lanka in various capacities for many years. After the formation of Pakistan, his parents migrated to Pakistan. They first came to Hyderabad and then moved to Karachi.[3]

Biography

Ilyas Qadri was born on 12 July 1950[1] in a Memoni family in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a Sufi scholar of the Qadri Rizvi order and founder of Dawat-e-Islami,[4] a global organization of Sunnis spread over 195+ countries.[1][5][6][7][8]

Qadri studied for 22 years from Grand Mufti of Pakistan Muhammad Waqaruddin Qadri at Darl Uloom Amjadia, Karachi.[9]

Qadri is a leader and a founder of the Qadiri-yya, Rizviyya, Attariyya branch of the Qadriyya Sufi order.[1][10]He has authored 30 books, including Faizane-Sunnat.[1][10]His most remarkable quote is, “I Must Strive to Reform Myself and the People of the Entire World.”[1][10]

Dawat-e-Islami

Dawat-e-Islami has contributed towards the promotion of Islamic education. It has established madrasas where children and adults learn and memorize the Quran, and Jamia-tul-Madina where the dars-e-nizami curriculum is taught.

Dawat-e-Islami has departments including Islamic Jurisprudence, Madani Channel, Madrasa tul Madinah, Jamia-tul-Madina, Departments of Mosque Service, Madani Inamat and Madani Qafila.[3]

Sufism

Qadri became a murid of Ziauddin Madani, a disciple of Ahmad Raza Khan. Fadlur Rahman and Waqar-ud Din authorized him in Sufism. Shariful- Haq Amjadi authorized him in all the four major Sufi orders, Qadiriyyah, Chishtiyyah, Naqshbandiyyah, and Suhrawardiyya. Amjadi also gave him ijazah to transmit ahadith.[3]

Shajara Mubaraka


  1. Muhammad
  2. Ali ibn Abi Talib
  3. Hasan ibn Ali
  4. Husayn ibn Ali
  5. Zayn al-Abidin
  6. Muhammad al-Baqir
  7. Ja'far al-Sadiq
  8. Musa al-Kazim
  9. Ali ar-Rida
  10. Maruf Karkhi
  11. Sirri Saqti
  12. Junayd al-Baghdadi
  13. Abu Bakr Shibli
  14. Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi
  15. Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi
  16. Mohammad Yousaf Abu al-Farah Tartusi
  17. Abu al-Hasan Hankari
  18. Abu Sa'id al-Mubarak Makhzoomi
  19. Abdul-Qadir Gilani
  20. Abdul Razzaq Gilani
  21. Sayyed Abu Saleh Abdullah Nasar
  22. Syed Muhyiddin Abu Nasar
  23. Syed Ali Baghdadi
  24. Mir Syed Musa Qadri
  25. Mir Syed Hassan Baghdadi
  26. Syed Ahmad Jeelani
  27. Bahal deen Shatari Junaidi
  28. Ibrahim Eiriji
  29. Nizam Deen Qadari Bhakari
  30. Qazi Zia deen
  31. Syed Sheikh Jamal al Aulia
  32. Allama Syed Ahmad Kalpawi
  33. Mr Syed Fazal Ullah Kalpawi
  34. Syed Shah Barkat Ullah Marharwi
  35. Syed Shah Aal Muhammad Marharvi
  36. Syed Shah Hamza Aini Qadri Marharvi
  37. Syed Aal Ahmad Ashay Mian Harharvi
  38. Hazrat Shah Aale Rasool Marehrwi
  39. Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
  40. Maulana Ziauddin Madani
  41. Ilyas Qadri

Publications

Along with Faizan-e-Sunnat, his publications include:[9][12][13]

See also

References
  1. The 500 Most Influential Muslims (PDF) (2020 ed.). Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. p. 109. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. "About Maulana Ilyas Qadri". YouTube.
  3. Attar - The Life and the Journey. UK: Maktaba tul Madinah. 2010.
  4. Afzal, Madiha (16 March 2018). Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society and the State. ISBN 9789353050054. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. Correspondent, A. (21 October 2002). "Da'awat moot concludes". DAWN.COM.
  6. Kamran Yousaf (12 September 2011). "Dawat-e-Islami comes under military's radar". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  7. N. K. Singh (2009). global encyclopedia of Islamic mystics and mysticism. India: Global Vision Publishing House, India. p. 270. ISBN 978-81-8220-673-1.
  8. Dunya, Sindhi (7 February 2018), "Muhammad Ilyas Qadri: The Notable Islamic Cleric of Sindh", Sindhi Dunya, archived from the original on 7 December 2018, retrieved 6 December 2018
  9. "Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri". The Muslim 500.
  10. "Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri". The Muslim 500. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  11. https://www.schoolofsufiteaching.org/school/silsilah.html
  12. "Sheikh-e-Tariqat, Ameer-e-Ahle-Sunnat Hazrat-e-Allama Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri Razavi Ziaye دامت برتھم العالیہ". 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  13. "Books by Muhammad Ilyas 'Attar Qadri Razavi (Author of Faizan e Sunnat)". www.goodreads.com.
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