Page 177 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

We created man and We know what his own self whispers
to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (Surah
Qaf, 16)

If someone believes that he has direct experience of the phys-
ical world and imagines that his own body is made up of matter
alone, he falls into a serious error and fails to grasp this great truth.
He imagines that Allah is up in the sky or somewhere else far re-
moved from us (Surely He is beyond any such misconception) and
fails to realize that Allah is actually closer to him than even his own
body. However, once he realizes that he can never have direct con-
tact with the outside world and must experience everything in his
mind alone, then everything—the external world, his car, the Sun
and stars he imagines to be so far away from him—will become as
a garment that enfolds him, all on the same plane. Allah has com-
pletely enfolded him and is infinitely close to him—as He has re-
vealed in the Qur’an:
If My servants ask you about Me, I am near. . . (Surat al-
Baqara, 186)

It is essential that people live in this knowledge. Someone
who is unaware of it will imagine that this transitory world, to
which he has been sent solely for a test, is in fact the true life. He
imagines that all his passions, expectations and pleasures need to
be directed towards this world. A firm belief that one can experi-
ence matter directly may cause one to turn away from belief in
Allah and to forget that we will be called into His Presence in the
Hereafter. By imagining this world to be absolute and striving to
obtain its imaginary delights, one may suffer terrible disappoint-
ment in the Hereafter. Allah has warned people of the truth of this:
What! Are they in doubt about the meeting with their
Lord? What! Does He not encompass all things? (Surah
Fussilat, 54)

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