Man’s reality is nothing other than the connection, relation, nexus, and total indigence that he has in relation with God.

In other words, man is nothing but a sign, symbol and indicator of absolute being. It is by virtue of this relation with God that he comes to know himself and the world and gains some semblance of peace.... But when he stops seeing himself to be a sign and name of God and begins to carve out for himself a portion of reality – all his own – he becomes oblivious and totally blind to his true self and the world.

This “self-subsisting” reality then becomes a mirage for him and fools him. If he deliberates upon this mirage and by doing so gets closer and closer to it, he finds only nothingness. This “nothing” is the sign of the displeasure of God and His anger. It is that very hidden hand which says no and stops the uninitiated from entering the mysteries. What remains then for those false claimants and pretenders who wish to storm the inner realm in this fashion but that they should end up in a debilitating nihilism and scepticism....

Man in his distance from the Divine Presence... refers and relates that which has its roots in his own soul to the environment – something which actually lies on the level of his veiled “reality”. Consequently, even though he himself is the veil and covering for the outer world, he sees the outer to be a veil and impediment for himself. Hence instead of first attempting to change his own state and soul, he neglects (his inner self) and goes about trying to change his environment.