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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRUTH?

see everyday. We do not have any evidence that proves other-
wise.
Many Islamic scholars have also proclaimed that the life
around us is only a dream, and that only when we are awakened
from that dream with "a big awakening", will people be able to
understand that they live in a dreamlike world. A great Islamic
scholar, Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi, referred to as Sheikh Akbar
(The greatest Sheikh) due to his superior knowledge, likens the
world to our dreams by quoting a saying of the Prophet
Muhammad (saas):
The Prophet Muhammad [saas] said that "people are asleep and
wake up when they die." This is to say that the objects seen in the
world when alive are similar to those seen when asleep while dream-
ing... 5
In a verse of the Qur'an, people are told to say on doomsday
when they are resurrected from the dead:
They will say, "Alas for us! Who has raised us from our
sleeping-place? This is what the All-Merciful promised

us. The Messengers were telling the truth." (Surah Ya
Sin: 52)
As the verse demonstrates, people wake up on doomsday as
if waking from a dream. Like someone woken from the middle of
a dream in deep sleep, such people will similarly ask who has
woken them up. As the verse points out, the world around us is
like a dream and everybody will be woken up from this dream,
and will begin to see images of the afterlife, which is the real life.

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