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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

they can do nothing. Throughout human history, materialist
thought has always existed. Being assured of themselves and their

philosophy, materialists ignorantly revolted against Allah Who cre-
ated them. Unreasonably and unscientifically, they maintained that
matter is eternal, that none of it could possibly have had a Creator.
(Surely Allah is beyond that) While denying Allah out of their arro-
gance, they took refuge in the lie that matter had absolute existence.
So confident were they of this philosophy that they believed that no
arguments could ever disprove it.
That is why this book's facts regarding the real nature of matter
so surprised these people. What we've related here destroyed the
very basis of their philosophy and left no grounds for further dis-
cussion. Matter, on which they based all their thoughts, lives, arro-
gance, and denial, suddenly vanished.
One of the attributes of Allah is His plotting against the unbe-
lievers. This is stated in the verse; "They were plotting and Allah
was plotting, but Allah is the Best of Plotters." (Surat al-Anfal: 30)
Allah entrapped materialists by making them assume that they
are in direct contact with the original of matter and in so doing, hu-

miliated them in a way never seen before. Materialists deemed they
knew the originals of their possessions, status, rank, the society they
belonged to, the whole world and everything else of which they ac-
tually experienced only the copies. Moreover, by relying on these,
they ignorantly grew arrogant against Allah. By displaying the
greatest unreason and being boastful, they revolted against Him
and added to their unbelief. While so doing, they relied on matter.
Yet so lacking are they in understanding that they fail to realize that
Allah compasses them round about. Allah announces the state to
which the unbelievers are led as a result of their thick-headedness:

Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who
are unbelievers. (Surat at-Tur: 42)

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