Already during its music study in Berlin (1966-71) Hassan Dycks interest in the Indian-eastern music tradition began. After a stay in India where he studied with Ustad Vilayat Khan and played with the Delhi Symphony Orchestra, he combined western music with elements from the mirror-image-ritual tradition of the east. Embracing Islam in 1979 he followed the teaching of the great Sufi Master Sheikh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani , the leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order , (his lineage go back to the 11th century Sufi Abdul Qadir Jilani and the 13th century Anatolian mystic Jalaluddin Rumi). After a stay in Damascus from 1979 till 1985 learning directly from the great Master, he returned with him to Cyprus and established later a center devoted to Sufism in Germany .
Since 1986 he is the leader of the main Sufi Naqshbandi center of Europe till now . Sheikh Hassan also directs - in collaboration with different musicians- concerts , Dhikrs and Hadra for a large audience all over Europe. During his tours with the "Muhabbat Caravan" he tells especially tales of sufi wisdom, accompanied by his violoncello of "Amore" also called "Campanulla". This "widened" violoncello offers a broad series of consonances and is remarkably adapted for the presentation of the ethnic spiritual music. The music comes mainly from the inspiration and the improvisation with a special attention to the noises, vibrations and frequencies. The Sufi tales are presented with much humor without losing the perspicacity and the depth of Sufi wisdom.
Sheikh Hassan is an authentic example of the Sufi mystic and his tradition. In an accessible and relaxed way, full with humour it reveals us the internal beauties of Islam. Sufis are the mystics of Islam. Their internal search requires an intensive purification. Born in the heart of the Master the sufi music moves towards the heart of people to touch them delicately and wake up in them a desire for the love of the Divine:... The Sufi Path of the Love. According to the conditions of place, time and the public of the moment, a special atmosphere almost magic is created because, like the great Sufi Saint Jalaludin Rumi once said:: "The listener is the performer, and the performer is the listener "