Europe North America Oceania Shah Inayat Qadri[a] (Punjabi: [ʃaːɦ ɪnaː'jət qaːdɾi]; c. 1643 – 1728) was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi scholar, saint and philosopher of the Qadri Shattari silsila (lineage).

Qadiri and Shatari are Islamic surname for the members of the Qadiriyya and Shattariyya tariqahs, which are Sufi mystical order.

[5][6] Shah Inayat was born in Kasur in 1643 (circa), into a Muslim family belonging to the Arain tribe.

[citation needed] He used to work in Kasur, but because of the animosity of the city's ruler, Nawab Hussain Khan, he was forced to migrate to Lahore.

[8] Shah Inayat is remembered as a preacher, a religious scholar, a philosopher and a saint.