Nothing Really Exists

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Shaykh Muhammad Nazhim Adil al-Haqqani (q.s.) gave the following swuhbah, on the 01^st January 1997. 

Is it possible for an ant to understand a bee?  Is it possible for a cat to understand a dog?  If a cat is not a dog, he cannot know the real position of a dog.  A dog will understand a dog, a cat will understand a cat.  Everyone understands their own level.  An ant cannot understand a man.  All it knows, is that if it lands under the foot of a man, it will be finished.  It knows we are a great creature which moves, but it cannot give any description.  Only a man can know about another man.  A man cannot even know about a woman, just like a woman cannot know everything about a man, because they are different beings.  So how could it be possible for mankind to understand the Creator?  Only another creator could do that.  But there cannot be two creators; it is impossible.  The greatness of the Creator is that He Knows everything, every detail of His creatures. 

One divided by infinity is zero.  That means nothing is in existence.  Every part of your body can be divided to the point of zero.  Infinity multiplied by zero is zero.  What we are seeing is in reality nothing, reflections.  We look into the mirror, and we think it is us, but in reality, it is just our image, our reflection.  Every part which is in existence can come to a point where it cannot be divided anymore. 

The Creator, in His Endless Oceans of Wisdom and His Will Creates countless universes, worlds, servants, creatures. He Calls them to come into existence, and they appear.  If He Tells them to go, they will disappear in His Endless Oceans.  No one can refuse His Will.  Man must know that they are nothing.  When we admit this, we will lose the pride which prevents us from being in the service of our Lord.  People do not even have the simplest knowledge about the Creator today, even though they do not even have any real existence.  That image in the mirror is not us.  The people in the photograph do not exist, even if it looks like it.  Everything we see is an image: nothing. 

On the Night Journey, Allah (s.w.t.) Tells Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) that He would Make him a mirror of Him, a Pure Reflection of Divine Attributes.  That is why we recite the tahlil.  We want to be part of that, our perfected selves.  A television would be nothing without a screen; without it nothing can be seen.  If we were to change the material of the screen, it also would not show anything.  In the same way, Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) is the only one who can serve this purpose.  Without the Creation of him, nothing could be in existence.  That is the status of the Prophet (s.a.w.).