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has been created by matter and time (through evolution). (Surely Allah is
beyond that.)
When he feels that he only experiences the perceptions of the universe
he thinks he is living in, the world, his own body, other people, other mate-
rialist philosophers whose ideas he is influenced by, and in short, every-
thing, he feels overwhelmed by the horror of it all. Everything he depends
on, believes in, and takes recourse to vanishes suddenly. He feels a desper-
ateness which he, essentially, will experience on Judgment Day in its real
sense as told about the unbelievers in the verse: "That Day they shall open-
ly show their submission to Allah; and all their inventions shall leave
them in the lurch." (Surat an-Nahl, 87)
From then on, this materialist tries to convince himself of the lie that he
can reach the original of matter, and makes up "evidence" to this end; he hits
the wall with his fist, kicks stones, shouts, yells, but can never escape from
the reality.
Just as they want to dismiss this reality from their minds, they also
want other people to discard it. They are also aware that if the true nature of
matter is known by people in general, the primitiveness of their own philos-
ophy and the ignorance of their worldview will be exposed for all to see,
and there will be no grounds left on which they can rationalise their views.
These fears are the reason why they are so disturbed by the fact related here.
Allah states that the fears of the unbelievers will be intensified in the
hereafter. On Judgement Day, they will be addressed thus:
One day We shall gather them all together: We shall say to those who
ascribed partners to Us: "Where are the partners whom you invented and
talked about?" (Surat al-Anaam, 22)
Thereupon, unbelievers will bear witness to the disappearance of pos-
sessions, children and close circle whom they had assumed to be real and
ascribed as partners to Allah: "Behold! how they lie against their own
souls! But the (lie) which they invented will leave them in the lurch."
(Surat al-Anaam, 24).

The Gain of Believers
While the reality that we do not have direct contact with the original
matter and that time is a perception alarms materialists, just the opposite
holds true for true believers. People of faith become very glad when they