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INTRODUCTION

n the early 20 century, scientists discovered something new: that matter was not as we had
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imagined it to be. Matter was not solid. Matter had no colors. It gave off no smells, sounds or
I image. Matter was simply energy. The chair you sit in, the table you lean on, the house you live

in, your dogs, the people around you, buildings, space, stars—in short, the whole material world ex-
ists as a form of energy.
In the face of this unexpected discovery, all philosophies constructed on the basis of matter
therefore suffered a scientific collapse. Science revealed the proof of something inside the human

body but not belonging to it, something that perceived the entire physical world, but was not itself
physical: the human soul.
The soul could not be explained in any way in terms of materialist claims. Darwinism, which
produced countless fictitious tales regarding the imaginary evolution of species, remained silent in

the face of the existence of the soul. Because the soul was not matter, it was a metaphysical concept.
And metaphysics was something that materialists were completely unable to accept, because meta-
physics did away with all the unconscious events, coincidences and random processes that they had
deified. Metaphysics submitted evidence of a conscious creation, in other words, of the existence of

Allah. That, in any case, was why materialists had been denying the existence of the soul ever since
the days of Ancient Greece.
This struggle, which had persisted since Ancient Greece right up to the present, now became
meaningless because there is an entity that makes a human being human, that lets you say, “This is

me.” That, in other words, is your soul: It exists, and it belongs to Allah. Science definitively proved
that the human soul observed all things as they were presented to it and that there could be no ref-
erence to any reality beyond these perceived images. To put it another way, it openly declared that
the only absolute Entity was Allah.

This proof by science is of importance in convincing minds that deify materialist philosophy. In
fact, though, all who possess reflection and intellect are aware that they possess a sublime soul. Any-
one who can reason at all will understand that it is the soul that rejoices, thinks, decides, judges, ex-
periences joy and excitement, loves, shows compassion, gets anxious, enjoys the taste of an apple,

takes pleasure from listening to music, builds planes, raises skyscrapers and constructs laboratories
in which it examines itself.
If human beings are possessed of souls, they cannot have been created haphazardly. There is a
purpose behind their presence in this world. All people bear a soul that belongs to Allah and are be-

ing tested in this lifetime, after which they will be held responsible for all their thoughts and deeds.
There is no randomness or aimlessness in life. There are no chance events, as Darwinists maintain.
Everything has been created by the will of Allah to become part of the tests to which we are sub-
jected. In this life, which will end in death, the only thing that will be left behind is the body. The

soul, on the other hand, will live for all eternity in the Hereafter, which is its true abode.

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