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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

Lord’s wisdom, might and artistry. However, people who mate-
rialist philosophy has deceived into believing that matter is the
sole absolute entity look for some other, equally material entity to
which they can ascribe all this perfection.
This arises from their failure to realize that they are living in-
side an illusion.
When matter is revealed as an illusion, we see clearly the ex-
istence of the soul. Allah is the only absolute Entity, Who pervades
and enfolds all things and is unfettered by space and time. He re-
veals this in another verse:

Eyesight cannot perceive Him, but He perceives eyesight. .
. . (Surat al-An‘am, 103)
Allah pervades our internal and external lives, our sight, our
thoughts and all our being. We can do nothing, not even breathe,
without His knowledge. Allah, the one absolute Entity, certainly
knows everything there is to know about the world that He has cre-
ated as an illusion, and about man, into whom He has breathed His
Own Spirit.
This is a very simple matter for Allah. As we live our lives,
and experience those perceptions we imagine to be “the external
world,” it is not the illusory objects and other people that
are closest to us, but rather our Lord.
In one verse Allah reveals that:

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