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DARWINISM REFUTED

we say "what I have just seen was a dream." So, how can we prove that
what we see at any given moment is not a dream? We could be assuming
that the moment in which we are living is real just because we haven't yet
woken up. It is possible that we will discover this fact when we are woken
up from this "waking dream" which takes longer than dreams we see
everyday. We do not have any evidence that proves otherwise.
Many Islamic scholars have also proclaimed that the life around us is
only a dream, and that only when we are awakened from that dream with
"a big awakening," will people be able to understand that they live in a
dreamlike world. A great Islamic scholar, Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi,
referred to as Sheikh Akbar (The greatest Sheikh) due to his superior
knowledge, likens the world to our dreams by quoting a saying of the
Prophet Muhammad (saas):
The Prophet Muhammad [saas] said that, "people are asleep and wake up
when they die." This is to say that the objects seen in the world when alive
are similar to those seen when asleep while dreaming... 395
In a verse of the Qur’an, people are told to say on the Judgment Day
when they are resurrected from the dead:
They will say, "Alas for us! Who has raised us from our sleeping-
place? This is what the All-Merciful promised us. The Messengers
were telling the truth." (Surah Ya Sin: 52)
As demonstrated in the verse, people wake up on the Judgment Day
as if waking from a dream. Like someone woken from the middle of a
dream in deep sleep, such people will similarly ask who has woken them
up. As Allah reveals in the verse, the world around us is like a dream and
everybody will be woken up from this dream, and will begin to see images
of the afterlife, which is the real life.

Who Is the Perceiver?
We can never have direct experience of the "external world" that
many people think they inhabit. Here, however, arises a question of
primary importance: If we cannot reach the original of any physical object
we know of, what about our brain itself? Since our brain is a part of the
material world just like our arms, our legs, or any other object, we can
never reach its original either.

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