Page 99 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

When people understand what matter is, they strongly sense that
everything by which they are bound to the life of this world—their desires,
passions and everything that makes them forget God and the Day of
Judgment—are deceptive and vain. Learning the true nature of matter is what
saves people from the desires of this world. It directs them with pure hearts

and sincerity towards God and saves them from the error of associating others
with Him.
This is a century in which people display arrogance, conceit and every
kind of inhuman and amoral behavior. However, when they realize that they
themselves, and those whom they look up to, are just shadow beings, their
arrogance and conceit will be replaced by humility and gentleness.
All these developments will be the means by which we will achieve a

secure and comfortable society, in which people can live without meanness,
selfishness and pitiless competition.
Certainly, there will be one important result that will come from an
awareness of the fact that we have no contact with the original matter: The
collapse of materialist philosophy.
Now, we shall discuss in detail why the fact that matter is not absolute is
one of the most important discoveries in history.

The Truth About Matter Shows That God Is The One
Absolute Being

One of the most important things implied by this fact is that God is the
One Absolute Being. Some people, under the influence of materialist
philosophy, think that matter is absolute being. Some of these people believe
that God exists, but when they talk about the existence of God, and where He
is, they display their ignorance. For example, if they are asked "Where is
God?", they will ignorantly answer, "Show me your intelligence; you cannot.
So, God is a reality like intelligence, but you cannot see it." Others assume in

their own minds (God is surely beyond that) that God has an illusory existence
like that of radio waves. According to their false view, they themselves and the
things they possess are absolute existence and God's existence encompasses
this material existence like radio waves. However, what is illusory is they
themselves and the things they possess. The One Absolute Being is God.

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