The Rafai Silsila

The Rafai Silsila, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

The Qadri-Qadeeri silsila is a sufi order or tariqah which was started Bahr-ul-Uloom Hazrat Moulana Maulvi Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri Hasrat (1870–1962), the former Dean and Professor of Theology of the Osmania University, Hyderabad and a famous Sufi of southern India widely known as Bahr-ul-Uloom (Ocean of Knowledge).The Qadeeri silsila is actually an offshoot of the Qadri spiritual order or the Qadri tariqah.
A ṭarīqah is a group of murīdīn (singular murīd), Arabic for desirous, desiring the knowledge of knowing God and loving God (also called a faqīr Arabic: فقير‎, another Arabic word that means poor or needy, usually used as al-Faqīr ilá l-Lāh, "the needy to God's knowledge (الفقير إلى الله)).
Nearly every ṭarīqah is named after its founder, and when the order is referred it is in a nisbah formed from the founder's name. For example, the "Rifai order", named after Shaykh Ahmad ar-Rifai, is called the "Rifaiyyah", the "Qādirī order", named after Shaykh `Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, is called the "Qādiriyyah".Often ṭuruq are offshoots of another ṭarīqah, for example,The Qadeeri silsila (or chain) is a sub division or an offshoot of the Qadri tariqah, started by Bahr-ul-Uloom Hazrat Moulana Maulvi Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri Hasrat. Almost all the sufi orders trace their path to Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani. The Qadeeri silsila also traces its path from Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri to Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani.
There are many Spiritual Chains from Hazrat Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri that lead to Hazrat Ghous-ul-Azam Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, but the main chain has been mentioned below.