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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

This being is the soul.
It is the soul that sees, hears, feels, perceives and interprets the
copies in the brain of the matter existing on the outside.
The intelligent being reading these lines is not an assortment of

atoms and molecules and the chemical reactions between them, but
a soul.

The Real Absolute Being

We are brought face to face with a very significant question:
Since we know nothing about the original of the material world and
we only deal with the copy images in our brain, then what is the
source of these images?
Who continuously makes our soul watch the stars, the Earth, the
plants, the people, our body and everything else that we see?
Very evidently, there exists a supreme Creator Who has created
the entire material universe, and Who ceaselessly continues His Cre-
ation. This Creator displays a magnificent Creation, and surely He
has eternal power and might.
This Creator describes Himself, the universe and the reason of
our existence for us through the Book He has sent down.
This Creator is Allah, and His book is the Qur'an.
The fact is, the heavens and the Earth—that is, the universe—are
not stable. Their presence is made possible only by Allah's Creation,
and that they will disappear when He ends this Creation. This is re-
vealed in a verse as follows:

Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and earth, preventing
them from vanishing away. And if they vanished no one could
then keep hold of them. Certainly He is Most Forbearing, Ever-
Forgiving. (Surah Fatir: 41)
As we mentioned at the beginning, some people have no genuine
understanding of Allah and so, as a result of terrible ignorance, they
imagine Him as a being present somewhere in the heavens and not re-

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