Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri Razavi

Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri was born on 12 July 1950 in a Memoni family in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a Sufi scholar of the Qadri Rizvi order and the founder of Dawat-e-Islami.

He studied for 22 years from Grand Mufti of Pakistan Muhammad Waqaruddin Qadri at Darl Uloom Amjadia, Karachi. He is a leader and a founder of the Qadiri-yya, Rizviyya, and Attariyya branches of the Qadriyya Sufi order. He has authored 30 books, including Faizane-Sunnat.