With great honour, we received this video of Head of the Sufi Center Rabbania- Hajrath Shaykh Eshref Effendi An-Naqshabendi from the European Center for Sufism, Sufi Land, Germany.

Shaykh Effendi meet with Rahe Vander Silsial's Grand Shaykh Allama Sufi Syed Jafar Sadek Shah while visiting Chattogram Darbar Sharif, Chattogram in Bangladesh. That time both of them visited Ruhingan Champ and supplied humanitarian aids to the distressed Rhuhingan People arranged by Shaykh Effendi and his followers from Germany.

Later on, Allama Sufi Syed Jafar Sadek Shah and Shaykh Eshref Effendi conjointly arranged another "Gift of Love" distribution ceremony. It was to serve food stuffs to Bangladeshi less fortunate Sufi Community, affected by Covid-19 in last year.

In 1995, Sufi Master Sheikh Esref Efendi met the last Grandsheikh of the Naqshbandi silsila, Grandsheikh Nazim al Rabbani. He began to study Nazim's teachings and accepted him as his teacher and joined the Naqshbandiyya. The silsila (or golden chain) of the Naqshbandi tradition can be traced back through all grandsheikhs to holy Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), as the last and final messenger of Allah, hence the seal of the prophets. Grandsheikh Nazim Al Rabbani is a descendant of the bloodline of Mohammed himself. He authorized Sheikh Eşref Efendi in 1996 to serve as a spiritual guide and adviser in the tradition of the Naqshbandi tariqa.

As is custom in the tradition, Efendi began delivering sohbets (spiritual addresses) in Berlin and quickly a community of people gathered around him. In 1998 he took off to Bosnia with some of his students to offer reconstructing and humanitarian aid after the war in Bosnia. In a joint effort they helped with the reconstruction of the burial site of Sari Saltuk (also known as Baba Sari Saltik or Saltuk Baba), a 13th-century saint.

Today he is known as Sheikh Eşref Efendi and founder of the Sufi Centre Berlin (Europäische Mitte für interspirituelle Begegnungen = European Center for Inter-spiritual Encounters). He has also initiated the launch of Sufi Centres in Radolfzell/Bodensee (Lake Constance), Cologne, Eigeltingen/Reute and Ludwigshafen. His events and sohbets (spiritual addresses) are visited by people from all over Europe, people of various cultures, traditions and beliefs. Due to the growing interest Efendi's influence has also spread to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Slovenia.

We received this video for the 18th Universal Sufi Festival, held on March 21, 2021 in Bangladesh.

Motto of the Festival is:
ENLIGHTENED SOULS' INTROSPECTIVE UTTERANCE.

We the USF 2021 organising body is warmly thanking and obliged to him for the support and virtual presence by this overseas video message at the 18th Universal Sufi Festival on behalf of the Key-Person:

Our beloved Sufi Master-
Rahe Vander Silsila's Grand Shaykh Allama SUFI SYED JAFAR SADEK Shah
Sajjadanashin, Chattogram Darbar Sharif
Initiator, Holy Prophet's Day (August 29)
Organizer, Universal Sufi Festival
Founder, Rahe Vander Ennoble Award

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