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The Little Man in the Tower

On closer inspection however, belief in the "giant human being" theory is
only a requirement of materialist philosophy. That is because there is no
other need to believe that we interact with the original of the body which we
see and touch. Why should we believe in such knowledge? Why accept the
existence of such a giant as real in the absence of any evidence, when
nobody has ever found any trace of such a thing?

Apart from a blind acceptance of materialist philosophy, there’s no
reason to believe in the existence of such an imaginary material person.

Matter Created in the Sphere of
Perceptions and Imagination

We’re now led to a most important truth: Since the only world we can deal
with is one of perceptions, all these perceptions must be created and displayed
to us by a Creator possessed of infinite knowledge, wisdom and power. That
Creator is Almighty Allah—the Lord of all the Worlds, in the words of the
Qur’an.

A clearer expression of this important truth is this: Allah has created from
nothing all that exists. Yet as Islamic scholars have written, all entities are
created in the sphere of "perceptions and imagination." Since Allah has
breathed into man His Spirit, man perceives part of these perceptions and
gives them such names as "the world," "the universe," "matter" and "objects."
In any case, it is Allah Who taught man these names. All of these perceptions,
created by Allah, submit to Him unconditionally and act in accordance with
His will. No entity is created independent of Allah. Only Allah is real.
Everything else is an illusion at the level of perceptions.

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