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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

too have been unable to find a
solution. The fact is, however, that
all the technical and scientific facts in-
dicate that human beings possess a soul
that perceives, sees and feels. What scien-
tists look for in the brain—the “seeing entity”
in other words—is the soul. Everything belong-
ing to what we consider to be the “outside world”
consists of images displayed to the soul.
This insight totally does away with materialism,
in which some scientists have such a strong belief. For
materialists, who claim that everything consists of mater-
ial entities, the existence of the soul is totally unaccept-
able. For that reason, the question of “Who does the per-
ceiving?” will always remain unanswerable for material-
ists.
It is Allah Who gives human beings their souls. It is
Allah Who causes that soul to hear, see and feel. It is
Almighty Allah Who creates a perfectly clear, flawlessly
detailed and extraordinarily vivid world for us solely as
an illusion, Who gives the soul the impression that it is re-
ally experiencing all these things, and Who creates all
things out of nothing.
Allah has told man of the truth of this in verses:

That is the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible,
the Almighty, the Most Merciful. He Who has cre-
ated all things in the best possible way. He com-
menced the creation of man from clay; then pro-
duced his seed from an extract of base fluid. Then
[He] formed him and breathed His Spirit into him
and gave you hearing, sight and hearts. What lit-
tle thanks you show! (Surat as-Sajda, 6-9)

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