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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRUTH?

major significance that one of the most important scientifically
proven facts is so carefully hidden from people's eyes.
The fundamental reason why people easily accept all scien-
tific facts, yet are so afraid to accept this one, is that learning the
truth about matter will basically change the way everyone looks
at life. Those who believe that matter and the self are absolute be-
ings will discover one day that everything they have worked for
and protected based on this idea – their spouses, their children,
their wealth, even their own personalities – is an illusion. People
are very afraid of this reality and pretend not to understand it
even if they do. They try with determination to disprove the
facts, which are easy enough for even a primary school child to
understand. The reason behind this opposition is that they are
afraid to lose what this world offers.
For someone who is attached to his possessions, his chil-
dren, or the transient offerings of this world, the illusory nature
of matter is cause for great fear. At the moment such a person un-
derstands this, he will have died before his natural death, and he
will have surrendered his possessions and his soul. In the verse,
"If He did ask you for it (all your wealth) and put you under pres-
sure, you would be tight-fisted and it would bring out your
malevolence." (Surah Muhammad: 37), Allah reveals how
human beings will behave with meanness and rancor when He
demands their possessions from them.
But when a person learns the real nature of matter, he will
understand that his soul and his possessions already belong to
Allah. If he knows that there is nothing to give or to resist giving,
he will submit himself and all he possesses to Allah before he

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