Page 251 - Communism in Ambush

flawed conceptions? One reason is that never in their lives have they
realized a very important reality. And not being aware of it, they be-
lieve that their entire lives are limited by the material world.
Therefore, their entire relation to the world is dominated by ambi-
tion. In the following pages, we will reveal this important reality, of
which godless people are unaware.

The Real Face of Matter
We are about to demonstrate a reality that invalidates the roots of
materialist thought: not a philosophy or ideology; but a technical re-
ality that everyone inhabits whether he knows it or not, which has
been proved by various branches of science. If approached with care
and sincerity, without prejudice, it is very easy to understand. This
reality can be summarized like this: “ “All material existence that form
us and our environment is a totality of conception. The concept of
what we call “matter” is like a dream, conceivable only as an image
in our minds. We can never have any connection with its original that
exists outside us.”
The “reality behind matter” is not formerly unknown and only
newly discovered. Throughout history, God has sent apostles and
other deeply aware, thoughtful people to proclaim this reality, which
is alluded to in a number of verses of the Qur’an and plays a key role
in interpreting still other verses. Texts containing portions of these
individuals’ proclamations have come down to us today; while vari-
ous degenerated forms of the true religion—whose original revela-
tions have been distorted—have sought to preserve this reality as a
mystical secret.
One can find this reality in surviving texts of Zoroastrianism,
Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism and Christianity. Ancient Greek
philosophers such as Pythagoras and Plato (especially in his
Allegory of the Cave), the Eleatic school of philosophy, and a number
of the thinkers who followed them all expounded one aspect of this
question. In later periods, it has been related and taught by people
who, under the influence of differing viewpoints and various inter-