[1] He was born in 1925, in "Sayyidpura", Balia, Uttar Pradesh, India in the family of Maulana Abdul Latif who was himself a religious scholar.

He and other Pakistani Sunni scholars established Dawat e Islami and selected Ilyas Qadri[1][3] as its head.

[1][2] He was influential in establishing the World Islamic Mission which is an umbrella organisation for Sunni Barelvi in the United Kingdom and in Europe.

[2] Qadri was appointed the first Secretary General of World Islamic Mission with its head office located in Bradford, England.

Islamic scholar and present leader of WIM Qamaruzzaman Azmi stated, 'Allama Arshadul Qadri's work in England was to lay the proper foundations of Ahle Sunna wal Jam'aat which would give rise to an intellectually sound and spiritually based Islam in Europe'.