Page 197 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

it clear that this reality will exclude any possibility of materialism.
When we consider the scientific results that have been obtained, there is
no credibility in treating the fact that we perceive the outside world in our
brains as a philosophical speculation. It is not a philosophical speculation at
all, but a scientific fact clearly revealed by scientific discoveries. It is a fact

that everyone lives within, and which nobody can deny. Everyone, religious or
not, knows that unconditionally, and even if someone does reject it, that
rejection is meaningless.

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that appear in this book. However, what is being discussed here is not the same
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Throughout history, many scholars and thinkers have explained this
principle. Some of them, however, have been led astray by a false idea, and
have seen the things that God has created as totally non-existent. However, to
say that we see an illusion of matter formed inside our brains does not mean
that "none of the things we see exist." That is because all the things we see,
the mountains, meadows, flowers, people, seas, in short everything we see,
everything whose existence God has described in the Koran, has been
created and does exist. However, each and every one exists as an image.
Everything created by God exists whether we see it or not. It has in any
case been created, and as we have seen, it will continue to exist under the
memory of God from the moment it is created until the moment it dies. (For
further information see Eternity Has Already Begun by Harun Yahya).
As a result of this, the fact that we have experience of only an illusion of
matter formed in our minds does not mean it does not exist. But this fact does
tell us something about the true nature of matter i.e. that it is a perception.
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