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truth which people personally experience and observe throughout
their lives. Whoever evades it should know that it is definitely not
possible to escape from the world inside the brain. Therefore those
who resist the Qur'an in the belief that matter is absolute will even-
tually come face to face with the truth that the things they value con-
sist of a mere perception when they think about this very important
scientific knowledge. In this way, things which have made them am-
bitious, things which have frightened them and things which have
caused them to feel pride will naturally lose their meaning.
In the same way, people whose words are respected and who are
accepted as leaders are nothing but the result of a perception which
Allah has created in the minds of others, so that unconditionally fol-
lowing Satan, his manifestations in human form or people who are
under his influence, is no different from the deception we have re-
ferred to above of supposing that one has direct experience of the
material world.
A person may go for years without realising these important

truths concerning the real nature of matter. Many people may not
have considered that they see the people surrounding them, nature
and the entire universe within their brains and that they can never
directly experience the originals of what exists outside. However, a
few seconds' sincere thought with a collected mind is enough to
change a person's entire view of life and rescue him from such fixed
ideas.
For example, think about this book which you hold in your hand,
the things which are written in this book and the pages you turn one
by one. Every one of these consists of perceptions reaching your
brain through the medium of your senses. Reconsider: the book
which you think you see consists only of electrical signals reaching
your brain and the hand which turns the pages is one whose real na-