What is Ilyas Qadri?
{{Infobox religious biography|pre-nominals=|movement=[[Islamic]]|module={{Infobox person |embed=yes | television = [[Madani Channel]]}}|background=Green|religion=Islam|website={{plainlist| * https://www.ilyasqadri.com * https://www.dawateislami.net }}|notable_works=[[Faizan-e-Sunnat]]|influenced=[[Mushtaq Qadri]]|influences=[[Mohammed al-Ghazali]], [[Abdul Qadir Gilani]], [[Imam Ahmad Raza Khan]], [[Maulana Ziauddin Madani]], [[Muhammad Waqaruddin Qadri]]|known_for=Founder of [[Dawat-e-Islami]]|nationality=[[Pakistani]]|name=Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri|birth_place=[[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]]|birth_date={{birth date and age |df=yes|1950|7|12}}|birth_name=Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri|othername=|native_name_lang=ur|native_name={{Nastaliq|مُحَمَّدٌ الْىاسِ عَطَّارِ قَادِرَى}}|caption=|alt=|image=Ilyas qadri.jpeg|module2={{Infobox YouTube |embed = yes | name = Maulana Ilyas Attar Qadri | logo = | logo_caption = | channel_name = | channel_url = | channel_direct_url = MaulanaIlyasQadri | channel_display_name = Maulana Ilyas Qadri | years_active = 2013 — Present | subscribers = 657 thousand | subscriber_date = 20 August 2021 | views = 62 million | view_date = 20 August 2021 | silver_button = yes | silver_year = | gold_button = | gold_year = | diamond_year = }}}} '''Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri''' ({{lang-ur|مُحَمَّدٌ الْىاسِ عَطَّارِ قَادِرَى}}; born 12 July 1950) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar. He belongs to the Rizvi Qadri [[Sufism|Sufi]] order. Qadri is a widely-respected sheikh with a significant global following which is supported by the Madani TV Channel. In 1981, the Sheikh founded Dawat-e-Islami, a Sunni Barelwi revivalist movement with hundreds of thousands of followers in Pakistan and over 180 other countries. It centres on the propagation of Islamic knowledge and manages two main activities: the Jamia-tul-Madina chain of religious school