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This is no astonishing situation. The inability to understand-that is,
interpret the world and events with decent reasoning-is a trait com-
mon to unbelievers. In the Qur'an, Allah particularly states that they
are "a people without understanding." (Surat al-Ma'ida: 58)

Materialists Have Fallen into the Biggest Trap in History
The panicky atmosphere sweeping materialist circles in Turkey, of which

we've mentioned only a few examples here, shows that materialists face utter
defeat. Modern science has proven that we cannot reach the original of matter,
and put this forward in a clear, straightforward, forceful way. Materialists see
that the material world, on which they base their entire philosophy, lies beyond
a perceptual boundary they can never cross. In the face of this fact, they can
do nothing. Throughout human history, materialist thought has always existed.
Being assured of themselves and their philosophy, materialists revolted against
Allah Who created them. They maintained that matter is eternal, that none of
it could possibly have had a Creator. While denying Allah out of their arro-
gance, they took refuge in matter alone, with which they held themselves to
be in direct contact. So confident were they of this philosophy that they
believed that no arguments could ever disprove it.
That is why this book's facts regarding the real nature of matter so surprised
these people. What we've related here destroyed the very basis of their philoso-
phy and left no grounds for further discussion. Matter, on which they based all
their thoughts, lives, arrogance, and denial, suddenly vanished. No human being
has ever seen matter as it "really" is, so no philosophy can be based upon it.
One of the attributes of Allah is His plotting against the unbelievers.
This is stated in the verse; "They plot and plan, and Allah too plans;
but the best of planners is Allah." (Surat al-Anfal: 30)

Allah entrapped materialists by making them assume that matter is an
absolute existence and in so doing, humiliated them in a way never seen
before. Materialists deemed their possessions, status, rank, the society they
belong to, the whole world to be absolute. Moreover, by relying on these, they
grew arrogant against Allah. By being boastful, they revolted against Him and
added to their unbelief. While so doing, they relied on a total conviction in the
absoluteness of matter. Yet so lacking are they in understanding that they fail
to realize that Allah compasses them round about. Allah announces the state to
which the unbelievers are led as a result of their thick-headedness:

Or do they intend a plot [against you]? But those who defy Allah are
themselves involved in a Plot! (Surat at-Tur: 42)

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