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]
- Laws of Ṣalāĥ
- Priceless Diamonds
- Cure for Anger
- I want to rectify myself
- Method of becoming Pious
- Cure for Sins
- Test of the Grave
- Shocks of the Deceased
- Heedlessness
- The Four Donkeys of Satan
- Calls of the River
- Deserted Palace
- Bones of the Kings
- Sweet Words
- Khūdkushī kā ‘ilāj
- Ẓulm kā Ānjām
- Solution for Conflicts
- Miracles of Imām Ḥussaīn
- Rafīq-ul-Ḥarāmaīn
- Blessings of Ramadan
- Antidote to Suicide
- Luminous Face
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