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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The evildoers will see the Fire and realize they are going to fall in-
to it and find no way of escaping from it... (Surat al-Kahf: 53)

As may be seen, occurrences that are going to take place after our
death (from our point of view) are related as already experienced
and past events in the Qur'an. Allah is beyond the relative time
frame that we are confined in. Allah has willed these things in time-
lessness: people have already performed them and all these events
have been lived through and ended. It is imparted in the verse be-
low that every event, be it big or small, is within the knowledge of
Allah and recorded in a book:
You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur'an or do
any action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied
with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on
earth or in heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larg-
er, which is not in a Clear Book. (Surah Yunus: 61)

The Worry of the Materialists
The facts discussed in this chapter, namely the truth underlying
matter, timelessness, and spacelessness, are extremely clear indeed. As
expressed earlier, these are not some sort of philosophy or way of
thinking, but crystal-clear scientific truths, impossible to deny. On
this issue, rational and logical evidence admits no other alternatives:
The universe—with all the matter composing it and all the people liv-
ing on it—is an image, a collection of perceptions that are experienced
in our minds and whose original reality we cannot contact directly.
Materialists have a hard time in understanding this.
One main reason why materialists cannot comprehend this is
their subliminal fear of the implication they must face if they com-
prehend it. Lincoln Barnett tells of the fear and anxiety that even
"discerning" this subject inspires in materialist scientists:
Along with philosophers' reduction of all objective reality to a shad-
ow-world of perceptions, scientists became aware of the alarming
limitations of man's senses. 17

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