Luminaries Honored as 13th Universal Sufi Festival 2016 Held in Dhaka

Speakers today expressed their commitment to continue their efforts in respective fields as part of service to humanity. They also lauded the initiative undertaken by the organizers of 'Universal Sufi Festival' to honor the enlightened personalities of the country.

The distinguished personalities were speaking on the occasion of   Universal Sufi Festival 2016  at national press club premises in the capital.  " Enlightened souls, introspective utterances" as it's theme, the '13th Universal Sufi Festival 2016′ was held today where ten luminaries were rewarded in different categories for their contribution in their respective field.

Allama Sufi Syed Zafar Shaha, founder of the organization presided over the function.

The categories and 10 Role models receiving  the Ennoble Awards  include :   Ekushe Award to  leading sociologist Anupam Shen PhD. , vice-canceller of Premier University, for promoting Education,  Freedom Fighter Award to famous actor Raesul Islam Asad for remarkable contribution in Liberation War,  Digital Technology Award to eminent technologist Mustafa Jabbar for contribution in  Digital Technology,  Maizbhanderi Dedicated Sufi Award to Syed Abu Ashraf Mohammed Gaziul Haque the Sajjada Nashin of Comilla Ashraf Nagar Dorbar Sharif,  Social Welfare Award to Chittagong Urban Development Authority (CDA) chairman Abdus Salam for social welfare,  Author and Religious Research Award to Hadrath Khwaja Fariduddin Ahmed Chisty the Sajjada Nashin of Chisty Nagar Dorbar Sharif of Comilla ,  Health Service Award to Dr. Mohammed Delwar Hosain; divisional head of the National Kidney & Urology Hospital, Dhaka for contribution  ,  Maizbhandari Sufi Singer Award to National artist Jaane Alam ,  Comparative Religious Study Award to Prominent Islamic author & researcher Mustaq Ahmed  and Sufi Lyricist Award to Noted lyricist and composer Shah Baul Alam Sharkar .

The festival also features Blood Donation programme  in association with Bangladesh Red Crescent Society at 10 am, Multimedia Presentation at 2 pm and Introspective Sufi dialogue at 3 pm.  A number of Prominent Sufi Shaykh, Olama and Renowned  personnel apart from people of different sects and religions attended the festival.

Round Table Discussion on Character Assassination

Press Release/ 19-03-2016/ Ajmer Rajasthan /:-The 3rd GPM Session took off with the burning topic of character assassination attempt as a deep sea of all evil in the world.

Former Vice Chancellor Kanta Ahuja of Jaipur University inaugrated the session by lighting the lamp. 

DL Tripati Vice president PUCL spoke on the various laws that is in favour of women in our country and women must speak out against the culprits to seek justice.

 Sabah Khan, Ragini Chaturvedi, Dr Sandeep Awasti,  Hasan Chishty,  Bakshish Singh, Shubhash Jain, Prerna Arora, Major Marfathiya and BRahmakumari Yogini participated in the session this morning.

The discussion on verbal abuse and emotional abuse in relationships was discussed which  is on the rise, and the psychological damage it inflicts can be crippling. Sometimes with no hitting  involved yet the subtle put-downs, the physical avoidance, the mocking is  emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is a behavior and language designed to degrade or humiliate someone by attacking their self-value or personality. There are many women who are victims of emotional abuse said Gulsha Begum President Global Peace Mission

Dr Ravi Bhatnagar expressed his concern on how the law is misused by women most times with frivolous lawsuits against the men. He stressed that Character Assassination and Abuse is not on any one gender rather it's experienced with both genders. 

Dr Pam Erickson highlighted on the need of imparting  sex education to bring awareness among the youth to bring about a change in the future generations. 

Dr Sandeep Awasti highlighted the importance of events within our country and how women raped  will have to struggle for action against the culprits. The system is too laid back or too much under pressure from higher authorities to not register most cases. Sadly this is the state of affairs in our country. 

However the discussion was concluded by ms Begum on the solutions for all the unrest in the world was to turn towards spirituality. She said Spirituality teaches us to be the most powerful tool which allows us to negate all the unrest within us and in turn a better world is possible. The world cannot change unless each one takes to strict moral and virtues which alone can bring peace inside and outside. spirituality teaches us patience and tolerance in a world where one is assaulted mentally or physically. spirituality teaches us to seek justice from the universe when every other worldly system fails to give justice. Silience and faith is the greatest weapon in the world.

The participants were honoured and the session was concluded with high tea. 

3rd GPM session on character assassination with Domestic Violence Rape and Abuse in Ajmer

Press Release/ 16-03-2016 / Ajmer India :

3rd GPM session on character Assasination with Domestic Violence Rape and Abuse will be held at the Al Ikhlas gallery Foysagar Road Ajmer on the 19th March at 9.30 am

Spokesperson for Global Peace Mission and Divine Abode Foundation said that this is a burning topic in our country today. He further said the session will focus on how one can deal with Character Assasination in different walks of life.

Ms Gulsha Begum President Global Peace Mission said that every where there is a need to address these issues , be it marriage, workplace, society, schools, college, politics , films etc the disease of maligning another person is common and sometimes it leads to suicide.

The aim of the session is to deal with such abuse and assault with solutions for peace inside and outside.

Ragini Chaturvedi, Prof TK Mathur, DL Tripati, Kanta Ahuja , Madhu Khanna, Dr Ravi Bhatnagar, Sabah khan, Dr Sandip Awasti, Major Marfathiya, Subhash Jain, Pramila Singh, Pam Erickson, Vinod Erickson, Hasan Chishty are the few distinguished speakers who will participate in the conference.

The event organised by kamaluddin charitable trust and Divine Abode Foundation in association with national human rights council for women.

Understanding Sama

Sama is a form of mysticism which burst out when the mystic has completed the stage of ascetism piety and detachment from the material world in the spiritual path and originally it was composed by the mystic in a state of haal in the truly irfani way that is gnostic stage. They arrived to this stage after subjugation of their animal passion so you may add a good 7 years or 10 years to reach to this level. Please know there is a deep secret hidden in the man's heart. When the mystic comes to a higher level he expresses himself thru his inner creativity without his knowledge. Some begin to sing on their own in a state of trance, some create art in a state of trance , in some case the body takes to automatically doing strange yoga poses etc.

Over time this sama in the form of qawwali, whirling, art, yoga became a form of art . Most are aware of this as Sufi music or Sufi art or Yoga or Geometric patterns. Most don't know the origin of how these form of sama came into existence. People assume by just listening to qawwali or by whirling or doing yoga which one learns thru their teacher is highly spiritual and you get connected to the Divine when the sama reaches the highest level. All this is false. The true essence of sama is when you have walked the path. You will your self perform these sama be it music art or yoga on your own without a teacher or a guide or any basic knowledge of it. You will be surprised at your own creativity.

Today every one is singing qawwali or whirling as a form of music and dance. Of course it's nothing more than music and dance. Origin of the sama is not what we see today. If some one else is singing or whirling or creating art work or doing yoga on his own I cannot become one with the Divine as its his creativity bursting out from within. It's his hidden wisdom busting as his mystical secret knowledge, which is theoretically known as sama.

Any form of music or creativity or Sama comes out of a mystic after the second stage. It begins in the third stage onwards and remains with him until he reaches a state of haal. Listening to others singing qawwali is nothing more than practiced music by the performer. If you sing or dance or do strange activities which is highly creative than you have reached the stage of self development and closer to the secrets of the universe