Divergent sufi orders are but branches of a single tree of loving-kindness. If one order denies or repudiates another, it only repudiates itself. What follows is the sisilah or chain of the Nimatuallhi Sufi Order – the initiatory succession of sufi masters whose esoteric teaching is transmitted and continued today by our current master, Reza ‘Ali Shah (Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh).
- Reza ‘Ali Shah (Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh)
- Nur ‘Ali Shah II (Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh)
- Munis ‘Ali Shah
- Sadiq ‘Ali Shah
- Wafa ‘Ali Shah
- Munawwar ‘Ali Shah
- Rahmat ‘Ali Shah
- Mast ‘Ali Shah
- Majdhub ‘Ali Shah
- Husayn ‘Ali Shah
- Nur ‘Ali Shah
- Ma’sum ‘Ali Shah Deccani
- Rida ‘Ali Shah Deccani
- Shams al-Din Deccani
- Mir Mahmud Deccani
- Mir Shah Shams al-Din Muhammad III
- Mir Kamal al-Din Atiyyatullah II
- Mir Shah Shams al-Din Muhammad II
- Shah Habib al-Din Muhibbullah II
- Mir Shah Shams al-Din Muhammad I
- Mir Shah Burhan al-Din Khalilullah II
- Shah Kamal al-Din Atiyyatullah
- Shah Habib al-Din Muhibbullah I
- Shah Khalilullah I
- Nur al-Din Shah Nimatullah Wali
- Abdullah Yafi
- Salih Barbari
- Najm al-Din Kamal Kufi
- Abu’l Sa’ud al-Andalusi
- Abu’l-Barakat
- Abu’l-Fadl al-Baghdadi
- Ahmad al-Ghazali
- Abu Bakr Nassaj al-Tusi
- Abu’l-Qasim ‘Ali al-Gurgani
- Abu Uthman al-Maghribi
- Abu Ali ‘Katib
- Abu ‘Ali Rudbari
- Abu’l-Qasim al-Junayd
- Sari al-Saqati
- Ma’ruf al-Karkhi
- Da’ud al-Ta’i
- Habib al-‘Ajami
- Hasan al-Basri
- Ali