Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order for over 50 years, joined the Beloved on Friday, October 10, 2008. May God bless his soul and raise his rank to those of His true lovers. Amin.
Through Love, I have reached a place
Where no trace of Love remains,
Where “I” and “we” and the painting of existence
Have all been forgotten and left behind…
- Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
Ya Haqq!
NOTE: This blog will be silent for 40 days.
What a blessed soul,
Blessings of peace to you dear brother and all those who were touched by his gracious presence during this time,
Love and light,
M
Asalaamu alaikum.
Please forgive me that the proper du’a that we say upon such news has never stuck in my mind and I cannot think of the words now. May Allah forgive him, show him mercy, expand his grave, and give peace to those who will miss him.
For you, dear brother, may Allah give you a peaceful heart and acceptance that your teacher’s work here on earth was done, and inshaAllah you will hold his hand in Paradise. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
I had no chance to know Master personally, but felt the power of Love through his speeches to dervishes and his poetry.
Real Masters never leave, they remain in other subtle dimensions, helping us out on the Path
Ya Haqq!
May Allah grant him a place near Him which is reserved for the Ones He loves. Ameen. And Thum Ameen to your dua.
Let me be naive but honest. I have not heard about him but many prayers for him… i will do a bit of googling to find out…
Ameen.
Salaam Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Thank you all for your prayers and kind comments :) And thank you, Zamayara, for your words of wisdom. You’re right, of course, our Master has not left us, but is alive in the lessons and writings and poetry he has left behind, and in the spiritual attention he has passed on to his most worthy successor, Shaykh Alireza Nurbakhsh, and through him to us. We are blessed beyond words. Truly he has but taken the final turn on the Path of Love, and only a little while before we all do.
Sadness dissipates,
Love shines forth
From the Bestower of Light
In his passing comes
This lesson: Serve creation
And fear nothing
God is ever with you
O darvish, open your
heart and behold
Him in yourself.
Ya Haqq!
i just heard about Dr. Nurbakhsh and came here to express my condolensces. what a beautiful gift he was and brought to this world.
love to you, dear brother.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji-oon”
Bismillah ar Rahman ir Raheem. May Allah swt open the widest window on Janeh for our dear brother Pir o Mursheed Dr. Nurbaksh. It is my / our dua that his sweetness, his hikma, his nur remains in the hearts of all seekers of truth on the sayr i suluk. Tonight, in our dhikr, hadra and muraqabah we will remember him and read Ya Seen for him. His contribution to modern Sufic literature/thought will last generations and our hearts and our homes are open to the lovers of the lover of Allah who seek peace in remembrance. May Allah swt protect his Secrets
ameen
ya haqq
Thank you for the news
Ah! the light of the moon is brighter now.
His face is reflected in a pool of silver….and the path goes on.
Zed
Assalamu alaikum
inna liLlahi wa inna ilaihi rajeoon.
May this dear respected Master be arriving at eternal love, Ameen
Wassalamu alaikum
Salaam Bhai,
Just like parents raise children to their physical and mental maturity, Auliyaullah raise people in their spirituality. A Shaykh is one’s spiritual father and even worldly separation from his Shaykh is unthinkable for a Mureed.
May Allah raise his position ever more. What would we have become if Allah hadn’t given us such people..
Beloved Papa Darvish,
Ameen to your Blessed Prayer.
May The Almighty Embrace his True lover and let the entire heaven be lighted up at this meeting of the Lover with His Beloved.
And may you continue to spread the sweet fragrance of your Master’s teachings of Love and Compassion.
Much love and prayers for you Papa :)
Inna allahi wa inna allahi rajiyun
From Allah we come and to Allah we return.
Blessed brother in Sufism and peace, may Allah grant you a high station and may your light of guidance be reflected in the hearts of your mureeds. May Allah (swt) accept the work you have done here and increase people’s remembrance.
Ameen
Imam Salim Chishti
New Lebanon, NY
Inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji3un
May God bless him and grant him Jannah.. Ameen
Inna allahi wa inna allahi rajiyun
Our Master is back to the Beloved. May our love accompany him during this journey.
His extrordinary light will continue to lead our souls.
Ya Haqq
Oh Ame apaise, rentre dans mon paradis, content et satisfait! I want but why should I cry when He thought us to always be joyfull? I am sure billions of angels is wellcoming Him. What a blessing to have Him as our Master, Guide, Gift, Teacher, Friend, Hope and Cure! We would love He never died but as He thought us Life is gained through death and we should die before we die. His lovely and always rejuvenating face, His enchanting rythmic voice, His sparkling and everlasting Being will always be in our mind feed each of our breath and remind us how lucky we are to have knowm Him. Please continue to guide us!
YA HAQQ!
Salaams Irving bhai
Allah bless his soul.
As the above commenter says, we feel sad but in truth he still lives on in his teachings. May Allah ease your own heart Irving too.
Abdur Rahman
He has joined his Beloved and made us all the richer for his time here.
Alhamdulillah, Ya Haqq.
Salam
May Allah bless the dear master. He will always be alive in my heart .
Thanks for being a light for us.
Ya Haqq
Innanillahi wa innailaihi rajiun.
Indeed we are from Allah,
and to Allah is the final ‘Home Cooming’.
Peace and blessings of Beloved the Most High be with the Shaykh of Love. May all his students and all who benefits from his teachings continue to receive his baraka behind the veils. May his station be raised to the degree of the saints and beyond.
May his passing be an opportunity of reflection for ‘who we really are, and where we are going?’
“O beloved seducer,
reflection of who’s
endearing ways
are you?
You are locked
in my heart,
and my eyes
under your feet.
We’re in your quest,
in who’s quest
are you?”
- Amir Khusro for Shaykh Javad Nurbaksh (1926 – 2008)
Dear uncle,
May God bless you!
Love you,
Roya
Ya hagh
we missed a kind father and real master,I am very sorry.I condolece his family especially MR.Alireza.
Mahani from Sweden
Salaam Dear Brothers and Sisters:
I was told today that Shaykh Alireza Nurbakhsh, the new Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, read these words at the burial service for his father:
All is unity.
We are manifestations of Unity
The Master is in us and we are in the Master.
Ya Pir! Just reading these blessed words caused me to weep anew, but not out of sorrow. Alhamdulillah! That we were given such a Master, the Qutb of the age, who was with us for so many years. May the example of Dr. Nurbakhsh’s life shine in each of our hearts, expressed in loving-kindness, humility, and service.
Ya Haqq!
As-salamu alaykum brother Irving. I offer my condolences to you. May Allah take your pir to the highest places in the jannah.
I have not written comments to your blog for a long time and you may have forgotten me. I used to use the nicknames Ugur and then Mustahsin.
Ma’as-salamah
He transformed the world with style.
He touched so many lives beyond words can express.
Hazra-e Peer is here, His light lives through His son, Dr. AliReza Nurbakhsh.
Innanillahi wa innailaihi rajiun.
Most beloved brother Irving,
I was drawn this evening, this full-moon night to visit your blog for the first time in quite awhile…. and there the news of Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh’s passing flowed over me, through me….
May the love & peace, the unity that he brought with him flower & flurish even more in his passing…
Love, all ways,
Abadi
Hoo
“In truth, all was He and will be He – not I.”
we all alive to His Love’s , and His Loves alive forever…
Ya Haqq
Ya Haqq
Thankyou all for you beautiful comments, the many petals that are part of this great beating HEART that is our Master. I feel his presence infusing everything. May all of us be able to apprehend and join this vastness.
Love
ameen
Our beloved Master showed us how to live. His Love and kindness was an example for us all. To be with him was to be without any need for anything, at peace and in love.
His family has shown so much strength and love at this difficult time. My heart goes out to all of them.
He is in all of those he touched.
His message is simple. Be nobody, love everyone and selflessly serve society. I hope I can honour his memory by becoming free of selfisness and like him giving love freely to all.
Ya Haqq
I am writing to extend my deepest sympathies to Dr. Safa Nurbakhsh and his family. I was so very sad to hear about Hazarate pir.
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
My sympathies to all who are so profoundly touched by this great loss. There is a beautiful and simple poem (I think by Tagor?) if I may, I’ll share with you:
On Death
It’s not that the light went out,
It’s turning the lamp off,
Because the new dawn came.
Hu!
Hu!
Hu!
Dearer brother Irving, may Allah bless you,
“‘He never die whose heart is liven in Love.’
This sentence is written down on the board of the world.” Hafiz
Ya Haqq!
May God further elevate his station!
To Him we belong and unto Him we return.
InshaAllah your spiritual link will remain.
Innalillahe wa’inna ilaihe raaji’oon.
May the secrets and mysteries of Shaykh Nurbakhsh be sanctified by the Divine Mother.
On Zamayara’s point:
“Real Masters never leave, they remain in other subtle dimensions, helping us out on the Path”
I can only say: indeed.
bismillah. inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.
the saints are on the footsteps of the prophets, who are on the footsteps of Muhammad. and to Allah everything returns. wa ilaika masir.
may Allah bless Muhammad, all the prophets, all the saints, all the ahli tariqat muhaqqiqin, all true believers and all believers.
al-Fatihah.
inna lillah wa inna ilayhi rajioon
my condolences brother Irving.
I’m sorry to hear that he is gone. May Allah grant Jannah to him and to all those who were touched by him.
Just visited after a long time and was struck by this sad news. Dr Nurbaksh has undoubtedly touched many hearts and has been a voice for traditional sufism in this confusing age. May God reward him according to his rank and allow his good work to continue.
Love.
Ya Haqq!
He has not died but has moved onto a higher level of existence with his Lord.
Peace and blessings be upon him. And may his family find solace in that he lived a pious life.
Ameen
Assalamualaikum Br. Darvish
It is truly painful to lose someone like Dr Nurbaksh who represented a rose of the Beloved to Mankind for many years. It was time for him to join the Beloved whom he was singing for, songs of love, through his teachings, for many years. His loss is more felt in the midst of the current world situation which is filled with hate, greed and evil.
I offer condolences to my self, you, and all peace loving people of the world for this lose.
Katib
Master was a devoted instrument of God. He tuned the inner beings of his darvishes to hear the higher octaves. We can honor him always by remembering his songs of love.
Ya Haqq. Mary
My love and prayers to all the followers and family of Dr. Nurbakhsh. It was a privilege and a blessing on my life to have spent time with him in Boston and Santa Fe, at least 35 years ago.
Yours in the Light,
Maraya Suzanne
To all the family and followers of Dr. Nurbaksh, my love and prayers are eternal, but in this world, I wish to send a simple correction to my last entry. It seems my mind plays tricks on me. I met Dr. Nurbaksh in Boston Massachusetts in 1980, and spent time with him in Santa Fe New Mexico in 1981. That is over 25 years ago and not as previously written “over 35 years” ago. Khuda Hafez
Yours in the Light,
Maraya Suzanne
to our dear master
you are in our mind. we never forget when we bothered you with our acts but you smiled and teach us kindly. we are always ashamed in front of you and we are so pleased that our master make us grow up, actually guide us to truth.
i always ask this question from myself :if i was not here,where was i????????????????????????????????????if you were not here , where were you????????????????????????????????????????????????
THANKS GOD