
Fadlur Rahman and Waqar-ud Din authorized him in Sufism. Qadri became a murid of Ziauddin Madani, a disciple of Ahmad Raza Khan. ĭawat-e-Islami has departments including Islamic Jurisprudence, Madani Channel, Madrasa tul Madinah, Jamia-tul-Madina, Departments of Mosque Service, Madani Inamat and Madani Qafila. 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. His most remarkable quote is, “I Must Strive to Reform Myself and the People of the Entire World.” Dawat-e-Islami ĭawat-e-Islami has contributed towards the promotion of Islamic education. He has authored 30 books, including Faizane-Sunnat.

Qadri is a leader and a founder of the Qadiri-yya, Rizviyya, Attariyya branch of the Qadriyya Sufi order. Qadri studied for 22 years from Grand Mufti of Pakistan Muhammad Waqaruddin Qadri at Darl Uloom Amjadia, Karachi. He is a Sufi scholar of the Qadri Rizvi order and founder of Dawat-e-Islami, a global organization of Sunnis spread over 195+ countries. Ilyas Qadri was born on 12 July 1950 in a Memoni family in Karachi, Pakistan. They first came to Hyderabad and then moved to Karachi.

After the formation of Pakistan, his parents migrated to Pakistan.

His father served the Hanafi Memon Mosque in Sri Lanka in various capacities for many years. His forefathers were from the village of Kutyanah in Junagarh, India.
