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We live our whole life in our brains. People we see, flowers we smell, music we hear,
fruit we taste, the moisture we feel with our hands-all these are impressions that
become "reality" in the brain. But no colors, voices or pictures exist there. We live in
an environment of electrical impulses. This is no theory, but the scientific explanation
of how we perceive the outside world.

ham (pbuh) worshipping idols they had made with their own hands,
or some among the people of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) worshipping
the Golden Calf.
In fact, God has pointed to this lack of reason in the Qur'an. In
many verses, He reveals that some peoples' minds will be closed and
that they will be powerless to see the truth. Some of these verses are as
follows:
As for those who do not believe, it makes no difference to them
whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe.
God has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes is a
blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (Surat al-Baqara, 6-
7)
… They have hearts with which they do not understand. They have
eyes with which they do not see. They have ears with which they do
not hear. Such people are like cattle. No, they are even further astray!
They are the unaware. (Surat al-A'raf, 179)
Even if We opened up to them a door into heaven, and they spent the
day ascending through it, they would only say: "Our eyesight is
befuddled! Or rather we have been put under a spell!" (Surat al-Hijr,
14-15)

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