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Sheikh Nazim

Don’t ever say, “I can do this,” but say, “With my Lords power I may do it and if He is
supporting me I may stand up, and if He helps me I will be successful.” In this way you should
say and do everything. You must know that you are nothing. You are absolutely nothing. If you
say, “I can do,” or “I am able to do” you should be ashamed of youself. Who are you? You are
nothing! How can you claim this? Astagfirullah!

Even if one of you was granted the whole power of mankind, you would still be nothing.
Furthermore if you were granted the power of all creatures, and all heavenly beings, still you
would be nothing and you should not say, “I can do.” Even if you were given the power of
billions of Angels, (of which Gibril (alai) is only one, and he has six hundred wings, two of
which there is no space to spread between the East and the West!) still you should be ashamed
to say, “I have some power.” It is still nothing. Why are you proud? For what reason are you
claiming to be a powerful one? Is it because of your clothes, or cars or your dollars, marks, or
your property?” Why are you then proud? Pride is the worst characteristic of the ego. You are
competing with Allah, when you say, “I am powerful also.” Who are you!?

On the other hand to know that you are weak and that you are nothing gives to you honour.
Even if you were to say, “O my Lord, I am not powerful enough, even to be obedient to You,”
or to say, “I am so weak to be your servant, O my Lord, therefore forgive me,” gives you
honour. If a servant does nothing else but is apologetic and asks only for forgiveness, that gives
that servant much more honour, than if he was claiming to worship Allah, and is proud of his
worship and servant hood. Only humility can carry you away from difficulties, miseries,
problems and troubles. If you are humble, forgiveness reaches to you and blessings too. You do
not find water springs at the top of mountains, but you may find them at the bottom of a valley.

Every harmful thing is comes from pride, and every goodness is grows from humility. We are
such little ones, not only if taken individually, but even collectively. If we imagine the size of this
universe, or even if we use the power of our imagination and imagine it to be billions of times
bigger, still it would be so small, and it will mean nothing, in front of the Greatness of Allah
Almighty. His Greatness is beyond measure. This cannot be reached by numbers, or any other
scale of measure.

When we raise our hands, we must say, “O our Lord, we are so small, and you are so great.”
“You are the Greatest, and your Greatness has no end.” If it ends then He will be on the level of
His creatures. Nothing at all of any space, distance, size or even the smallest spot of what is
created, can claim to be in existence, and say, “I am here.” Or, “I have such greatness.”

There is no room for creatures and creation, through the existence of Allah Almighty. His
existence covers everything so much so that all the creatures, atoms, galaxies and universes,
cannot claim to have a place, space, or room, through the existence of our Lord. No, this
cannot be so. There is no room for anything that exists from the creation, through His
existence. He is The First, and He is the Last. (Quran). Nothing can enter there to say, “I am
here.” He is Allah Almighty.

My Grandsheikh Abdullah (ral) said, “Our existence is like the existence through a mirror. You
may look and see yourself reflected there, inside this mirror, but that which you see, cannot
claim to have an existence. Your existence is like the existence of yourself reflected in the mirror.
Your existence is not there in the one you see in the mirror. It simply cannot be”

Therefore we say that we are indeed so small. This is because we claim an existence. Not only
do we claim this but we claim to be great ones too! Isn’t it enough for you to say only, “I am
here.” You are also saying that you are a Lord, and that you don’t want to say that you are a
servant. Come to servanthood. Lordship is for the One Who’s existence is from pre-eternal up
to eternal. Come and declare that you are servant to that One Who’s existence is eternal, and
say, “O our Lord, we are your servants.”

His Divine Existence is from eternal to pre-eternal, and His kingdom, existence and sovereignty
are never ending, it is up to eternity. Allahu Akbar! Everything you see, touch and ask to keep
through eternity is nothing! Allahu Akbar! His greatness covers from pre-eternity, up to eternity,
and His greatness is eternal and for all time. Who are you? You are nothing. Don’t claim to be
something. The something that you claim to be means nothing. Don’t claim. Admit your
nothingness, and try to make your ego to admit its nothingness, nothingless nothing! When you
do this you should reach to perfection and satisfaction, perfect perfection, and perfect peace.

This is the highest point of what Rasoolullah (sal), the seal of prophets, was trying to teach
people. Allah’s existence is from eternal up to pre-eternal. There is no one except Him. In
existence there is only Allah. There is nothing else. Wahid un Ahad (the Unique, the One).
There is no existence except for Him. What are we? We are nothing. As for him who is
declaring an existence for himself, he is making partnership to Allah (shirk).

As we are not counted as ones who are in existence, Allah does not care about our making
partnership anyway. This is because basically, there is nothing other than Him. But Allah
Almighty likes His servants to keep good manners. For this reason, shariah, and the high orders
of tariqats came in order to take away this claim from the world, so that man doesn’t say, “I am
present and You are not, I am existing and You don’t exist”. Just a hundred years ago not one
of us was here, and after one hundred years from now, not one of those who are here today,
will be here anymore. There is nothing, and here is nothing and what appears between two
nothings, is also nothing.

Leave your mind, self and everything, until the drop that is you joins the Ocean (fana’billah).
With your intention and good will, you may sacrifice your self, and your body. Don’t ask to be
something. Instead ask for everything.

The Truth appeared, and the creation came into existence. It didn’t even take the time of the
blink of an eye. Among the Awliya (saints), the time of this existence is like a flash of lightening,
and the appearance which we are in now is like that. It just came to be to finish and then no one
is in existence. This is why Allah Almighty will ask, ‘To whom belongs the kingdom today?’
(Quran). But no one will answer and He will answer Himself. “Allah, the Only one. ” Al Qahhar
(the dominator).

The One who dominates His servants through death, will answer Himself, through Himself. You
will not say the answer, because the one who used to say, “I am this one or that one”, would not
be there anymore. Dominated. They are listening, but they cannot answer, and even greater, is
that He doesn’t answer by saying, “It belongs to me.” But he says, “It Belongs to Allah, The
Only One, The Dominator” (Quran).

There is also a secret that someone who is representing Him, will answer. The one who He has
made to be His representative. The one, if not for whom, Allah would not have created the
creation. The scholars say that Allah gives this answer, but the way of answering shows that
there is someone who is answering, and who could this be. This is him whom he dressed with
His attributes, and made him to be in the Station of Mahmud. He is answering. We are very
sure as this must be.

If anything, even if it be an atom, was left alone, without the observation (Muracaba) of Allah, it
would not anymore exist. If the observation (Muracaba) of Allah Almighty is taken away from
this atom, it would disappear. This is because true existence is for Allah Almighty. Wa Lam Ya
Kullahu Kufuwan Ahad. None is like unto Him. (Quran)

There is no space for that someone to be like Him. Absolute existence is for Allah Almighty.
Who else should there be? There is no space for a second one. There is only Allah and no one
is with Him. Your claim that you are in existence is false, because Allah doesn’t accept that
someone is equal to Him. People have made their minds busy, with things that they are not in
need of.

Without an ocean one cannot swim, and without an ocean there can be no fish. Which of these
two is better? The one who asks this has no intelligence. An ocean is an ocean with all that is in
it, and the way to reach it is by the generosity of Allah Almighty. Standing in front of the mirror
of eternity, dressed by true existence, looking to your own reality, in the Ocean of Oneness. A
fish is saying, “I am the ocean,” and to say, “I’m here,” without an ocean, is a false claim.
Astagfirullah! May Allah grant us to understand.

These are very important points, which need to be understood. If you don’t understand this
point, you cannot be saved from the evil of your ego, or of Shaitan.

The End