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experienced. Allah is unfettered by the relative time frame in
which we are confined. Allah has willed these things in time-
lessness: people have already performed them and all these
events have been lived through and are at an end.

97. How will resurrection come about?

Allah is All-powerful and He is the Creator of every being.
No doubt, Allah, Who brought everything into being out of
nothing, Who created man from a single drop of fluid, has the
power to create all of them once again in a similar way. Allah,
castigating the disbelievers, answers this question in the
Qur’an:

That (Hell) is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and
saying, ‘What, when we are bones and crumbled dust,
will we then be raised up as a new creation?’ Do they
not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth,
has the power to create the like of them, and has
appointed fixed terms for them of which there is no
doubt? But the wrongdoers still persist in unbelief.
(Surat al-Isra:’ 98-99)

98. Why isn’t the materialistic philosophy valid?

Materialist philosophy is a false system of thought that
holds that everything is composed of matter, that the universe
was not created, but has existed since time immemorial and
will continue to exist for all eternity.
However, the scientific developments of the last century
have proven that the claims of this philosophy are totally
invalid. First of all, it has been accepted by the scientific com-