Page 43 - The Little Man in the Tower

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Many, if not almost all, people are unaware of this momentous truth. Yet
even if others are unaware of it, that’s no excuse for us to be—because we
also see the "others" in question as images in our brains. We experience
these images, and are responsible for understanding what we see. Even if
everyone we hear around us tells us, "This world is real, not a perception,"
that still changes nothing. In a dream, you may hear thousands of people
shouting with one voice, "This world is real, not a perception". Yet that
dream will soon come to an end. All those people will suddenly disappear.
Beyond being perceptions, none of them ever existed in the first place.

Real life, too, will also come to an end one day—with death. Everything
we see (including those who have told us "this is the original of the world")
will vanish, to be replaced by an entirely new reality—that is, the world of
the Hereafter. Allah reveals this fact in the Qur'an, as He describes the
predicament of those who make the shadowy entities and goals in this world
their whole purpose in living—or else look for assistance from these things,
thus turning them into idols:

… [W]hen Our messengers come to them to take them in death,
saying, "Where are those you called upon besides Allah?" they will
say, "They have forsaken us," testifying against themselves that
they were unbelievers. (Surat al-A‘raf: 37)

Those who object to the facts set out here are materialists, ones who
falsely believe that matter is the absolute reality and that the human mind is
only another form of matter. Generally speaking, materialists are unwilling
to think about and discuss the obvious truth explained here, that we can
never make direct contact with matter. Often they become quite frustrated
with the idea. Back in the eighteenth century, materialists were incensed
when the British philosopher and clergyman George Berkeley

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