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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

Muhammad: 37), Allah reveals how human beings will behave with
meanness when He demands their possessions from them.
But when a person learns the real nature of matter, he will un-
derstand 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 dies. For sin-
cere believers, this is a beautiful and honorable thing and a way to
draw nearer to Allah. Those who do not believe or whose faith is
weak cannot recognize this beauty and stubbornly reject this reality.

The Environment that will Come to be When the
Real Nature of Matter is not Kept Secret
Those who know that they have no connection with the actual
material things, and that they are in the presence only of images that
Allah presents to them, will change their whole way of living, their
view of life and their values. This will be a change that will be use-
ful both from the personal and social point of view, because some-
one who sees this truth will live without difficulty according to the
high moral qualities that Allah has revealed in the Qur'an.
For those who do not regard the world as important and who un-

derstand that we cannot have direct experience of the original mat-
ter, it is spiritual things that deserve to be given importance. Some-
one who knows that Allah is listening to him and watching him at
every moment, and is aware that he will render an account of his
every action in the Hereafter, will naturally live a morally virtuous
life. He will be very careful about what Allah has commanded and
what He has forbidden. Everyone in society will be filled with love
and respect for one another, and everyone will compete with one
another in the performance of good and noble deeds. People will
change the values according to which they judge others. Material
things will lose their value and therefore, people will be judged not
according to their standing and position in society but according to

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