So he said, 'O God when nought exists but you then why is there all this fuss?'
God did not provide him with an answer...
so I will.
'Mojood' means...
The Secret of 'La Ilaha Illa Hoo'
In reality, there is no existence except His [God's].
Even Ghalib [a famous poet in the East] did not understand this.
He wrote poetry on this.
He wrote a stanza on 'La Mojood Illa Hoo'
'When nought exists but you...'
'When...'
'When nought exists but you, O God then why is there all this fuss?'
He was of the impression he has profound spiritual knowledge.
Ghalib was of the impression...
He belonged to the Qadri Sufi Order
and he believed that he had profound spiritual knowledge.
He wrote a couplet about himself:
''The intricate matters of Sufism, and your elucidation, Ghalib,
We’d have assumed you a Friend of God, were you not a drunkard.''
He missed the mark because he drank too much.
Otherwise, his expressions and his explanations of the intricate matters of Sufism...
he could have easily attained sainthood.
But he failed because of alcohol.
So he wrote: 'O God when nought exists but you then why is there all this fuss?'
God did not provide him with an answer...
so I will.
'Mojood' means...
that he existed prior to the primordial times.
Only he is 'mojood (in existence)'.
You think everything in your surrounding has an existence when in reality, absolutely everything will perish one day.
Nothing [of this world] will remain forever.
[Your life in this world] is transitory.
One day, I spoke to the Devil.
I said, 'You show people mirages, facades, don't you? None of it is real but you just make them believe it is, right?'
'That is deception,' I said.
He was silent for a few moments and then said, 'No,'
'if [what I show them] is a deception then the creation of God is also a deception'.
'I show people a facade - they see what is not really there...
but what did God say in the Qur'an?
''Life of this world is nothing but deception''
It is just a facade.
Life of this world...
'illa mata al ghuroor (nothing but deception)'
The word 'ghuroor' - we use it in Urdu to mean false pride, arrogance, etc.
Right?
Thanks to the ignorance of our religious scholars.
What is the actual meaning of 'ghuroor'?
Deception.
'Mata ul ghuroor' [literally means] 'fake currency'.
So, that which shall not remain forever is not reality - it is not real.
You are born, then you die. End of story.
Ponder on this, the personalities that have departed this world…
we are told by others that, ‘so and so existed’, so we assume, ‘fair enough, they may have existed’,
however, if we are not told of the departed's existence, we wouldn’t know and to us, they didn’t exist.
So when nothing existed [to us]…
So, when a personality did exist, the people of his era saw him and knew his existence and when he departed, they said he had gone.
In the way that the Sun rose, but when it set Abraham rejected it.
The Moon appeared but then when it set Abraham rejected the Moon too.
In the same way, there’s you, your body, it exists today but shall perish tomorrow.
And what perishes is not true existence.
And what is immortal, that in reality is existence.
What is immortal, in reality, is existence.
Who is immortal?
Only God.
So those who are infused within God are known as ‘Baqa Billah’ (Immortal within God).
One who obtains union with God becomes immortal within God.
[Question from viewer] 'What is being negated and what is being affirmed [in La Ilaha Illa Mojood]?'
Absolutely everything is being negated...
Except for God, everything else is being negated.
Because everything has been created by God
and what God has created perishes
while God himself is immortal.
That which perishes does not truly exist.
The only one who truly exists is the one who existed before the primordial times.
You did not exist before the primordial times - neither your soul nor your body.
Your 'existence' is a mirage.