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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

that man is not simply a collection of flesh and bone, enables us
to grasp the fact that we are also possessed of consciousness and
a soul. It is our Almighty Lord Who creates this soul and conscious-
ness in man, who is in turn a servant belonging to Allah. Our
Almighty Lord, Allah, is therefore the sole Entity with dominion
over the Earth and the heavens.
This fact will awaken enormous amazement in the face of the
might and dominion of Allah and the perfection in His creation.
Allah creates the boundless universe, with its countless flawless
details, both materially on the outside and also separately in the
brain of every human being. All the details in the universe are
flawlessly and constantly brought into being as phantoms within
the human brain. So perfect and flawless is this creation of Allah’s
that it appears exceedingly realistic and convincing right down to
the tiniest details, even though it is obvious that it actually consists
of a dream.
There are no flaws or defects in our Lord’s creation. People
who fail to use their reasoning powers are taken in by this flawless-
ness and imagine that they have direct experience of matter, and
never doubt, even for a single moment, that the images

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