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Sufi's Durbar

Shah Sufi Syed Emdadul Haque spent most of his younger years as a banker. It was quite amazing that a scion of one of the country's most respected Sufi families decided to pursue a career in banking when most of his cousins and distant cousins chose to stay as a Pir, a Sufi, a healer and a custodian of an Amanat they inherited from their forefathers.

And when he finally quit his profession and returned to Maizbhandar at the insistence of his late father, Syed Emdadul Hoque, however, took a formidable task to change the perception of people about Sufism. Some three months ago I saw some of these revolutinary changes that the 85-year-old Sufi has undertaken in his later years.

He has found out that many of the tens of thousands of people who visit him every year are actually mental patients. Many would come to him complaining that they have been possesed by genies. One young man I spoke to at the Sufi's Durbar told us that he was completely taken over by an Arabian genie called Habshi Al Quraishi. He may be suffering from psychitroc problems. But it is difficult for a revered Sufi to bluntly tell a mental patient that all he needs is some sound medical treatment.

So every Saturday, when he sees them he prays for their healing. But he also has hired a dozen of volunteers to take their medical history. These volunteers are so smart that they have now prepared a printed medical form with all the matching symptoms. In the last three years, these volunteers have stockpiled some 20,000 medical histories, which cover almost every type of mental, psychological and psychiatric and bipolar problems afflicting the Bangladeshi people.

And he has hired top medical school trained mental doctors at his own expenses to prescribe medicines for these patients. They come for healing. Instead, what they get is first class treatment. I saw some of them hesitating to see the doctor because they think a physician can't exorcise a Genie. They need Doa, not Dawa. But since the doctor was recommended by the top Sufi himself, the fourth generation direct descendant of the Maizbhandari Sufi Order, they can't say no. Besides, seeing the doctor is completly free of cost.

The first doctor, the Sufi and his energetic son, Syed Irfanul Hoque, hired was a woman. She is all praise for the Sufi family and the revolutionary changes they have ushered in in rural Chittagong. She has since joined the UN. And her replacement is a Hindu called Jowher Datta, a young doctor with flourishing practice in Chittagong. Datta affectionstely called the Sufi, Babajaan, for the respect the old Sufi has gained from him. "What he has done is just amazing. If all the Pirs, clerics and priests would send mental patients to the doctors, it would have healed millions of people," he told me.

The volunteers who consult the visitors who come from all over the country are also increasingly encountering phenomena such as low sperm counts among Bangladeshi youngmen. A significant number of young couples come to Syed Emdadul Hoque seeking his blessings for conceiving child. Their number has risen so much so that the Sufi has since politely started asking the young husbands to do pathological test on their sperm count. He has found that many of these young men were in denials of their impotency. A polite order from the revered Pir has helped them come to terms with their infertility.

For me the two days spending at Maizbhandar was a massive eye-opener. Yes, we have seen some of the magnificent Sufi shrines in rural Chittagomg --their interior so oppulent that it will put to shame some of the real palaces. No doubt these spending spree draws derision from the hardliners and from the dominant Sunni groups in Bangladesh. But at the Durbar of the Syed Emdadul Hoque, I also encountered a full spectrum of the Bangladeshi society with all its demons and difficulties.

It was one of the most spiritual moments in my life!! Md Sabbir Hossen Sakib (talk) 07:43, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

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