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The Little Man in the Tower
On close inspection, Imam Rabbani is stressing that the world we see,
and all beings "in the sphere of imagination," were created at the level of
perceptions. Outside that, all there is, is the Being of Allah.
As we have seen, the technical facts we’ve arrived at by means of
modern physics and physiology were noted hundreds of years ago by
Islamic scholars. They confirm one truth: that matter is an illusion. What
truly exists is Allah, Who created matter from nothing.
Materialism: A Hypothetical View of the
Life of This World That Is Regarded as
Real
Once it is understood, the truth explained here will entirely change
people's views of the world.
The great majority lives unaware of this great secret. They imagine that
everything they see with their eyes, hold in their hands and refer to as
"matter" has an absolute, objective existence. People falling into this error
hold one of two viewpoints:
1) Materialism: Some who hold that matter exists absolutely falsely
maintain that apart from matter, nothing exists. The name of this
superstitious belief is materialism in philosophical terms. Its adherents
ignorantly deny the clear existence of Allah, as well as the existence of the
soul and life after death.
2) Semi-materialism: Others who believe in the absolute existence of
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