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An Understanding Of The Real Nature of Matter Will Lead
People To Faith

People who will come to realize that they have been watching images
shown to their spirits throughout their lives, will believe with certainty that it

is God Who created both their spirits and these uninterrupted images.
The reason why some people stubbornly refuse to accept the secret of
matter is their unwillingness to conceive of the magnitude of God's greatness
and to accept their own nothingness. But even if these people do not want to
accept it, there is an indisputable truth: Everything in heaven and on earth is
God's and a manifestation of God. The only absolute Being is God. The other
beings that God has created are not absolute beings but appearances. All the
'I',s , that is individuals, who observe the appearances that God has created are
all spirits from God.

When people grasp the great secret of this knowledge, they will attain
great clarity of consciousness and the haze enshrouding their spirits will lift.
Everyone who understands it will freely submit to God, love Him and fear
Him. In addition, human feelings of pride and self-satisfaction will be replaced
by humility and modesty. This is what God wants from human beings. Those
who understand this amazing fact will look at things from a different point of
view and start out on a totally different life. They will acknowledge God's

power appropriately, and distance themselves from the kind of person
described by this verse:
They do not measure God with His true measure. The whole earth will

be a mere handful for Him on the Day of Rising and the heavens folded
up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is exalted above the partners
they ascribe! (Surat az-Zumar: 67)

Understanding The Reality Of Matter Removes Worldly
Ambitions

What we have described so far is one of the most profound truths that you
have heard in your whole life. We have shown that the whole material world
is really a shadow, and that this is the key to understanding the existence of

God, His creation, and the fact that He is the one absolute Being. At the same
time, we have presented a scientifically undeniable demonstration both of how

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