Ilyas Qadri

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

(1950-07-12) 12 July 1950 (age 71)[1]
Karachi, Pakistan
ReligionIslam
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Notable work(s)Faizan-e-Sunnat
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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 the iconic Faizan-e-Sunnat. [1]

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[]

Maulana 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]

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

Maulana Ilyas 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.[citation needed]

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]

Publications[]

Along with Faizan-e-Sunnat, his publications include:[9][11][12]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g The 500 Most Influential Muslims (PDF) (2020 ed.). Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. p. 109. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "About Maulana Ilyas Qadri". YouTube.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c 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. ^ Jump up to: a b "Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri". The Muslim 500.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri". The Muslim 500. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  11. ^ "Sheikh-e-Tariqat, Ameer-e-Ahle-Sunnat Hazrat-e-Allama Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri Razavi Ziaye دامت برتھم العالیہ". web.archive.org. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Books by Muhammad Ilyas 'Attar Qadri Razavi (Author of Faizan e Sunnat)". www.goodreads.com.

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