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able to see a being which is absolute. As it is revealed in the Qur'an, human
beings cannot see Allah but Allah sees them.
Eyesight cannot perceive Him but He perceives eyesight... (Surat al-An'am:
103)
Certainly, we human beings cannot see the Being of Allah with our
eyes but we know that He completely encompasses our inside, our outside,
our views and our thoughts. For this reason, Allah reveals Himself in the
Qur'an as "controlling hearing and sight" (Surah Yunus: 31) We cannot say
one word, we cannot even take one breath without Allah's knowing it.
Therefore, Allah knows everything we do. This is revealed in the Qur'an:

Allah - Him from Whom nothing is hidden, either on earth or in heaven.
(Surah Al 'Imran: 5)
As we imagine we have direct experience of the original of matter and
watch the copy world in our brains, as we live our lives in other words, the
closest being to us is Allah Himself. The secret is concealed in this reality: "It
was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul
makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein." (Surah
Qaf: 16) Allah has encompassed man and He is "infinitely close" to him.
Allah informs men that He is "infinitely close" to them with the verse:
"When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them)"
(Surat al-Baqara, 186). Another verse relates the same fact: "We told you that
your Lord encompasses mankind." (Surat al-Isra, 60).
Man is misled by thinking that the being that is closest to him is him-
self. Allah, in truth, is closer to us even more than ourselves. He has revealed
this fact in the verse "Why do you not intervene when it (the soul) comes
up to the throat, under your very eyes. We are nearer to him than you, but
you do not see it." (Surat al-Waqia, 83-85). As we learn from this verse, some
people live unaware of this phenomenal fact, because they do not see it with
their own eyes.
Some people are unaware of this great fact. They accept that Allah cre-
ated them, but think that the work they do belongs to them. However, every
action performed by a human being is created with the permission of Allah.
For example, a person who writes a book writes it with the permission of
Allah; every sentence, every idea, and every paragraph is composed
because Allah wishes it. Allah reveals this very important principle in sever-
al verses; one of these verses is, "... Allah created both you and what you