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The things that caused people difficulty and anxiety in their lives actually happen in the brain.
Someone who realizes this fact will show patience in the things that happen to him. He will
know that God has created everything for a good purpose and will trust in Him.

person who is wounded or loses his arm in a skirmish loses the apparition of
the arm in his brain and all his feeling of pain is a perception formed in the
brain. The threatening, spiteful and aggressive things said to him by his
enemies are composed of sounds formed in the brain.

As a result, events which produce difficulties, worries and fear are
illusions occurring in the brain. A person who sees what these illusions really
are does not feel anxious because of the difficulties in which he finds himself,
nor does he complain about them. Even if he were confronted by the most
aggressive and dangerous enemy, he would know that he is face to face with
illusions in his brain and would not be overcome by fear or hopelessness. He
knows that each one of these things is an apparition formed by God and that

He created them for a purpose. No matter what he encounters, he is at peace
in his trust and submission to God. In some verses of the Koran, God reveals

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