Since Pir Nureddin Jerrahi, twenty sheikhs have knelt upon the blessed blue sheepskin seat at the principal dergah in Karagümrük and followed Islamic principles in order to bind themselves to the Beloved. Nineteen of these sheikhs, along with Pir Nureddin and his family, are entombed in the dergah. The nineteenth, Hajji Sheikh Muzaffer Özak Âșkî al-Jerrahi, came to America and initiated a branch of the order in the West. Sheikh Muzaffer’s greatest dream was to share with humanity the secrets within the invocation of Divine Unity. He passed away into the realm of pre-eternity in Istanbul on 12 February 1985, his head bowed in prayer, his lips and heart humming the invocation of Unity, Lailahailla’Llah, one final time.
