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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

Any reference to the fact that we cannot make contact with orig-
inal matter, and that time is a perception, arouses great fear in a ma-
terialist because these are the only notions he relies on as absolutes.
In a sense, he takes these as idols to worship; because he believes in
the deception that he has been created by matter and time, through
evolution. (Allah is beyond this.)
When he feels that he cannot get to the essence of the universe he
lives in, nor the world, his own body, other people, other material-
ist philosophers whose ideas he is influenced by—in short, to any-
thing—he feels overwhelmed by the horror of it all. Everything he
depends on and believes in suddenly vanishes. He feels the despair
which he, essentially, will experience on the Day of Judgment in its
real sense as informed in the verse "On that Day they will offer
their submission to Allah and the things they invented will aban-
don them." (Surat an-Nahl: 87)
From then on, this materialist tries to convince himself that he's
really confronting external, original matter, and makes up "evi-
dence." He hits his fist on the wall, kicks stones, shouts, and yells.
But he can never escape from the reality.
Just as materialists want to dismiss this reality from their minds,
they also want other people to discard it. They realize that if the true
nature of matter becomes known to people in general, the primi-
tiveness of their own philosophy and the ignorance of their world-
view will be laid bare for all to see. No ground will be left on which
they can rationalize their views. These fears explain why they are so
disturbed by the facts related here.
Allah states that the fears of the unbelievers will be intensified in
the Hereafter. On the Day of Judgment, they will be addressed thus:
On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who
associated others with Allah, 'Where are the partner-gods, for
whom you made such claims?' (Surat al-An'am: 22)
In the Hereafter, unbelievers will bear witness to their posses-
sions, children and close friends leaving them and vanishing. They

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