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spoken of in the Koran. Eventually, these changes will put an end to many
problems of today's societies.
In place of angry, aggressive people, anxious even about small profit,

there will be those who know that they have experience of an illusion of
everything they see. They will be well aware that reactions of anger and loud
shouting make them look foolish. Well-being and trust will prevail in
individuals and societies and everyone will be pleased with his life and
possessions. These, then, are some of the blessings that this hidden reality will
bring to individuals and societies. Knowing, considering and living according
to this reality will bring many more goodnesses to human beings. Those who
wish to attain these goodnesses should consider this reality well and endeavor
to understand it. In one verse, God says,

Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees clearly,

does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment...
(Surat al-An'am: 104)

Knowing The Real Nature Of Matter Is The End Of

Materialism

The philosophy of materialism is the worldview that is most threatened
by the fact that we never have direct experience of the original material world.
In order to understand this better, we must look at the general definition of
materialism. The wicked philosophy of materialism is defined in materialist
writings as:

Materialism accepts the eternity and endlessness of the world, that it is not
created by God and is infinite in time and space. 36
In the 8th volume of the Larousse Encyclopedia, materialist philosophy is
defined as follows:

Materialism is a doctrine which does not accept the existence of any other
substance than matter. It is the opposite of idealism which says that the
essence and substance of reality is created by spirit.
As we can see in this brief definition, materialist philosophy regards matter
as the only absolute existent and believes that, apart from matter, no thought or
thing exists. Materialist philosophy does not accept the existence of spirit but
regards human consciousness as a product of the activities of the brain. (We

considered the invalidity of this materialist claim in the section entitled, "One of

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