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just to deny God, God, in turn, has prepared an environment where their false
idols will be taken out of their hands and where they themselves will be caught
in the traps they have set. God reveals how throughout history He has
responded to the traps set by deniers.

... they were planning and God was planning, but God is the Best of
Planners. (Surat al-Anfal: 30)

By giving people the impression that they are in contact with the source of
matter, God has made materialists fall into a trap and has humiliated them in
a way that has not been seen before. They have regarded as absolute being
things composed of illusion-their possessions and property, positions and

titles, the society in which they live, in fact, the whole world. And by trusting
in these things, they exalt themselves before God. In their own arrogant minds
they rebel and go forward in their denials. While doing this, their only strength
lies in matter. But they have fallen into such a lack of understanding that they
never think that God encompasses and surrounds them. In the Koran, God
reveals the final condition that deniers will reach as a result of their lack of
understanding:

Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who
disbelieve. (Surat at-Tur: 42)

Materialists have not yet realized that they are moving step by step
towards the greatest defeat in their history. For example, when they have
discovered that all images are perceptions in the brain, they have not been able

to take into account that this will cause the foundation of their belief to
collapse. When a materialist scientist, at the end of his researches, discovers
that things are not really what he had believed them to be, and that he actually
deals with images formed in the mind, he has given a blow to materialist belief
with his own hands. In one verse, God reveals that deniers will unconsciously
fall into the trap that they themselves have set:

And likewise in every city We set up its greatest wrongdoers to plot in
it. They plot against themselves alone, but they are not aware of it.
(Surat al-An'am: 123)

No doubt, the realization of this fact is the most horrible thing that could
happen to a materialist. The fact that he merely has experience of copy images

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