Page 134 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

t this point in the book it has been explained that we can never
reach the original matter, thought to be an absolute existent, and
that every person experiences merely copy images in his brain.
A And it has been shown how important this reality has been for
the increase of fear and love toward God, the spread of spirituality and good
morals and the collapse of materialism.
There is another concept similar to matter that materialists have

considered eternal and absolute—time. But like matter, time is also a
perception and is not eternal; there is a moment when it was created. This fact,
which has now been established by scientific proofs, was revealed in several
verses of the Koran.

Time Is A Concept That Is Formed From The Comparison
Of One Moment With Another

Time is a concept that depends totally on our perceptions and the
comparison we make between our perceptions. For example, at this moment
you are reading this book. Suppose that, before reading this book, you were
eating something in the kitchen. You think that there is a period between the
time when you were eating in the kitchen and this moment, and you call it
"time". In fact, the moment you were eating in the kitchen is a piece of
information in your memory, and you compare this moment with the
information in your memory and call it time. If you do not make this

We think that a
lapse of time has
occurred between
the moment the
telephone rings
and when we hear
the voice of a
friend, and we call
this interval
"time". Time is a
perception that
arises from making
a comparison
between what we
experience at one
particular moment
and the past.

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