Introduction to Qadri Shattari Silsila
Mausoleum of Wali Baba at Kondhali, Maharashtra Qadri Shattari Sufi order is the branch of Shattari Sufi order observed in South Asia, headed by Sayyad Mushtaque Husain Ali Mast Qadri Shattari. The spiritual Chain of this Tarika is a transmission (‘’silsila’’) transfer from Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) through Imam Ali including Hazrat Bayazid Bastami Rahmatullah alaih (753-845 CE). The Shattari order is so a branch of the Tayfoori Khan wada. Shaykh Sirajuddin Abdullah Shattar (wisal. 1406 CE), heir of Shaykh Shahāb ad-Dīn Suharwardy (Founder of Suharwardi Silsila) established the Silsila. Shaykh Shattar was the disciple of Hazrat Bayazid Bustami (seventh in the spiritual lineage) and received Ijazah from the 14 Sufi orders. His teacher Shaykh Muhammad Taifur appreciated the rigors he encountered in obtaining this station (MAQAM) and gave him the honorific ‘Shattar’. Originating in Persia, Shaykh Abdullah Shattar deli