About Ameen-e-millat

Ameen Mian Qaudri is the present caretaker (Sajjada Nasheen) of the Khankah-e-Marehra Sharif[clarification needed] of the Barkatiya Silsila. Quadri is the son of the famous Sufi Ahsanululema of Marehra in western Uttar Pradesh, India. Quadri is a professor in the Urdu department of Aligarh Muslim University. He has been ranked 44th in the list of 500 most Influential Muslims of the world by the Amman, Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in collaboration with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University, Washington DC.[1]

He is Patron in Chief of MSO of India, a students organization of Muslim Students & Youths of India.MSO of India has More than Ten Lac [10,00,000] active members.

Roots

The propounder of traditional Islam in India, Imam Ahmed Raza Khan, has his roots in Khankah-e-Marehra Sharif of Etah district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Marehra has been important to millions of Sunni Muslims around the world from the time of Mughal emperor Jehangir. This Khankah has produced many Sufi personalities.

The English-language daily, Hindustan Times, Uttar Pradesh Edition on 6 August'06 in its Special article about Indian Muslims, described Syed Ameen Mian Qaudri as the main leader of Ahle Sunnah. His silsila is known as Barkatiya Silsila which has lineage from Qadri silasila of Baghdad. It is said that his silsila has following of around two million people in India and abroad. He has presided many large gatherings in India and abroad.

He has worked for the educational uplift of the Muslims of India, and started a chain of educational institutions in India with the prefix Al-Barkaat.[3]

Usha Sanyal has written of the role of his family in spreading Islam in her book Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan and His Movement, 1870-1920. 2nd edition. New York and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Disciples of His Khankah-e-Barkatiya

 Ahmad Raza’s discipleship to Sayyid Shah Al-e Rasul, a Sayyid and Pir of the Barkatiyya family based in a small town of Marahra near Aligarh, was of great importance to his life.

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