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PART VII: MATTER
PART VII: MATTER
AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD
AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD

THE SECRET BEYOND

MATTER

T hose who contemplate their surroundings conscientiously and wisely
realize that everything in the universe-both living and non-living-must
have been created. So the question becomes, "Who is the Creator of
all these things?"
It is evident that the creation that reveals itself in every aspect of the uni-
verse cannot be an outgrowth of the universe itself. For example, no insect
could have created itself, nor could the solar system have created or organized
itself. Neither could plants, humans, bacteria, red-blood cells, nor butterflies
have created themselves. As this book explains throughout, any possibility that
all these could have originated "by chance" is unimaginable.
Therefore, we arrive at the following conclusion: Everything that we see has
been created, but nothing we see can itself be a "creator." The Creator is dif-
ferent from-and superior to-all that we see, a Superior Power Who is invisible
to our eyes, but Whose existence and attributes are revealed in everything that
He creates.
This is where those who deny Allah's existence are led astray. They are con-
ditioned not to believe in Allah's existence unless they see Him with their own
eyes, forced to conceal the actuality of creation manifested all throughout the
universe, and to claim that the universe and all the living things it contains have
not been created. In order to do so, they resort to falsehoods. As explained ear-
lier, evolutionary theory is one key example of their lies and vain endeavours
to this end.
The basic mistake of those who deny Allah is shared by many others who
don't actually deny His existence, but have wrong perceptions of Him. These
people, constituting the majority of society, do not deny creation, but have
superstitious beliefs about Allah, most believing that Allah is only "up in the
sky." They tacitly and falsely imagine that Allah is off behind some very distant
planet and only occasionally interferes with worldly affairs. Or perhaps He
doesn't intervene at all: He created the universe, and then left it to itself, leav-
ing us humans to determine our fates for ourselves.
Still others have heard the fact that Allah is "everywhere," as revealed in the

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