“Say it plainly: That God, by God, I see”

Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, March 2008

Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, 12/10/1926 – 10/10/2008

Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, in the first segment from one of his last public interviews, conducted in March, 2008.

Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the N'imatullahi Sufi Order for over 50 years, in a final interview conducted in March 2008 as part of a prospective documentary film on the subject of mystical experience. Dr. Nurbakhsh states the limitation of discourse as it relates to inner experience and the peripheral place of religious piety. He is asked about many seemingly pertinent or interesting topics, returning these with insistence on the non-intellectual, immediate experience in Love - of the Truth.

Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Order passed away from this world on October 10, 2008, in Oxford, England.

“From everything we were or were not, we are free, with Love
The heart remained tied to your passion, with Love
Love alone, was the goal of our journey
Free from all other we rested, with Love.”
-- Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

Early on the morning of October 10, 2008 the Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Nur 'Ali Shah), surrendered his soul to the Beloved.

For more than fifty years, as the Master of the Order and guide to the Nimatullahi darvishes, he illuminated our path and our hearts with the light he radiated, with the love he had for all creation, with his passionate dedication to the Beloved and service to all, with his spiritual charisma and his loving guidance.

"In truth, all was He and will be He - not I."

Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, passed away on Friday, October 10th 2008. Leaving Tehran in 1979, and after travelling widely in the United States, he settled in England in 1986 and never returned to Iran where the Order continues to thrive despite official attempts to deny the spirit of Iranian Sufis. He himself personified the Sufi life, serving humanity in humility and love. In addition to his role as a Sufi master, he was a pioneer in developing and establishing modern psychiatric practice and facilities in his native Iran.

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Remembering the Master

This entry is for remembrances of Agha Jan, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, by those who's lives and being were touched with his presence.

Please, feel free to leave others with your feelings, thoughts and reminiscences, comforts and memorials.

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Love’s fire, for a lifetime, burned my heart and soul
until the Beloved taught me the way of the lover.

Love’s jealousy gave me no chance to cry out;
it sewed my lips to keep me from speaking.

Like a moth, out of passion I circled Him so much
that He burned like the candle, kindling me for every assembly.

He stored me for years in the heart of time
so that in this age I could amplify the whisperings of Love.

I am a slave of the master of the holy fire;
from myself He bought me.

Then sold me for the price of the tavern’s wine.

Nurbakhsh, with the breath of the Beloved,
drunkenly said,

“Love’s fire, for a lifetime,
burned my heart and soul.”

--Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

Read at the funeral of Nur 'Ali Shah, Dr Javad Nurbakhsh by Reza 'Ali Shah, Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh