The aim of our association is for you to melt into your shaykh, to melt into the reality of your shaykh, to join in unity with your shaykh. This unity with your shaykh leads you to unity with the Prophet, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and he leads you to the Unity Oceans of Allâh Almighty, through him you finally leave your personality in His Unity Oceans, then you have finally accepted to be nothing. That is the real aim of sufi ways.
But these days everyone misunderstands. People think that being in the tarîqah will make them more and more important, more and more powerful. They want to prove their own existence, but tarîqah is really here to take everything from you, to bring you to the point of accepting that you are nothing. None of us were in existence here a hundred years ago, and in a hundred years from now none of us will still be in this form.
We are nothing. From one moment to another, we are nothing. This is because Allâh Almighty is continually recreating His Creation. Nothing exists uninterruptedly except Him. You must accept that you are nothing, you must accept the reality, you must not live in imagination, you must accept that you are nothing. But your ego never accepts that it is nothing, it fights from the beginning to the end, insistently desiring to be something. You never let yourself disappear into His Unity Oceans, you never allow yourself to be like a drop of rain falling from the sky which vanishes when reaching the ocean. It disappears but becomes an ocean. It belongs to the ocean – it has disappeared, but has now reached endless existence through His Unity Oceans.
-Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, may Allah bless his soul.
Reference: Heavenly Wisdom Page 11
