Page 37 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

until we are woken up. Only then do we say "what I have just seen
was a dream." So, how can we prove that what we see at any given
moment is not a dream? We could be assuming that the moment in
which we are living is real just because we haven't yet woken up. It
is possible that we will discover this fact when we are woken up
from this "waking dream" which takes longer than dreams we see
everyday. We do not have any evidence that proves otherwise.
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 (may Allah
bless him and grant him peace):

The Prophet Muhammad [may Allah bless him and grant him
peace] 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 simi-
lar to those seen when asleep while dreaming... 5
In a verse of the Qur'an, people are told to say on the Day of-
Judgment when they are resurrected from the dead:
They will say, "Alas for us! Who has raised us from our resting-
place? This is what the All-Merciful promised us. The Messengers
were telling the truth." (Surah Ya Sin: 52)
As demonstrated in the verse, people wake up on the Day of
Judgment 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 Allah reveals in the verse, 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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