Muhammad Ilyas Qadri

Ilyas Kutyana Alias Attar Qadri
Era	Modern era
Region	Islamic scholar
School	Hanafi
Main interests	Dawat-e-Islami

Ilyas Kutyana alias Attar Qadri is the leader of the Islamic missionary and revival movement Dawat-e-Islami, which he founded in 1981.

Early life

Ilyas Attar Qadri was born in Kutyana, India in the 1950s. His father, Abdul Rahman, migrated to Sindh, Pakistan when many Muslims were facing trouble in India. They stayed for a little while in Sindh and then moved to Karachi.

Abdul Rahman died while on the pilgrimage (hajj), when Qadri was only an infant. Ilyas Attar Qadri had a brother (Abdul Ghani) who helped Ilyas in his youth, and who died in a train accident. A short while after Abdul Ghani's death Ilyas Attar's mother died. These tragedies affected him very much. He expressed his grief in poetry.

The clouds of grief took over,
heart is restless Ya Rasool ALLAH
You are the cure of my grief Ya Rasool ALLAH
I was little,
father died, brother
passed away when I was young
Didn't even see the joys,
mother died Ya Rasool Allah
Say to the wind of dawn,
it move the grief of heart
The night of grief,
become the morning of spring Ya Rasool ALLAH
Because of the turnado,
the ship is shaken
Take care,
I'm going to drown,
o my soul Ya Rasool ALLAH.
(more or less translation from his poetry in Urdu).

Dawat-E-Islami

Dawat-e-Islami is a non-political, purely religious, international propagational movement. Its principle aim is to preach and guide Muslims to act upon the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet and filling their hearts with the love of The Holy Prophet.

Ilyas Attar Qaderi has given each Muslim a unique and beautiful purpose of his life, which should be the real purpose of anyone's life, and that is: "I must rectify myself and the people of this world".

In order to achieve this madani mission, Ameer-e-Ahle Sunnat has given all Muslims two very important and beautiful madani flowers/(phool). Therefore, he says that for the effort to correct ourselves, we have to act upon the Madani In'amat (Madani Inamat means "religious gifts". To make Islamic brothers and sisters and students strict upon the faraidh, wajibaat, sunan, desirable acts and to improve their manners and to save them from sins, Madani In`aamaat were created by Ilyas Attar Qaderi. Many Islamic brothers, sisters and students act upon the Madani In`aamaat and whilst taking account of their deeds of the day and fill in the pocket size card/booklet for their convinience, as a record for rectifying themselves), and for the effort to correct the whole world, we have to travel with the Madani Qafila (Madani Qafila means "carvan which travels from country to country, and city to city, in order to spread teachings of Qur'aan and sunnah and it is only for islamic brothers). This is the life-time madani (islamic) mission of each islamic brother and sister who is attached with Dawat-e-Islami.

Dawat-e-Islami Nationally & Internationally

Alhamduliallah (all praises be to Allah) Dawat-e-Islami is one of the largest Islamic movement growing not only in Pakistan but in other Muslim countries as well.