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who don't actually deny His existence, but have wrong perceptions of Him.
These people, constituting the majority of society in some countries, do not
deny creation openly, but have superstitious beliefs about Allah, most
believing that He is only "up in the sky." They tacitly and falsely imagine
that Allah is off behind some very distant planet and only occasionally
interferes with worldly affairs. Or perhaps He doesn't intervene at all: He
created the universe, and then left it to itself, leaving humans to determine
their fates for themselves. (Surely Allah is beyond that.)
Still others are aware of the fact that Allah is "everywhere," as
revealed in the Qur’an, but cannot fully understand what this means.
Superstitiously, they think that Allah surrounds all matter like radio
waves or like an invisible, intangible gas. (Allah is certainly beyond that.)
However, this and other notions that cannot clarify "where" Allah is
(and unwisely deny His apparent existence perhaps because of this) are all
based on a common mistake: They hold a groundless prejudice that moves
them to wrong opinions about Allah.
What is this prejudice? It concerns the existence and nature of matter.
Some people have been so conditioned to the mistaken ideas about the
true nature of matter that they may have never thought about it
thoroughly. Modern science, however, demolishes this prejudice about
the nature of matter and discloses a very important and imposing truth. In
the following pages, we will explain this great reality pointed to in the
Qur'an.

The World of Electrical Signals
All the information we have about the world is conveyed to us by our
five senses. Thus, the world we know consists of what our eyes see, our
hands feel, our nose smells, our tongue tastes, and our ears hear. Many
people never think that the external world can be other than what our
senses present to us, since we've depended on those senses since the day
we were born.
Yet modern research in many different fields of science points to a
very different understanding, leading to serious doubt about the "outside"
world that we perceive with our senses.
For this new understanding, the starting point is that everything we
perceive as external is only a response formed by electrical signals in our

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