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From then on, this materialist tries to convince himself that he's really con-
fronting external, original matter, and makes up "evidence." He hits his fist on
the wall, kicks stones, shouts, and yells. But he can never escape from the real-
ity.
Just as materialists want to dismiss this reality from their minds, they also
want other people to discard it. They realize that if the true nature of matter
becomes known to people in general, the primitiveness of their own philosophy
and the ignorance of their worldview will be laid bare for all to see. No ground
will be left on which they can rationalize their views. These fears explain why
they are so disturbed by the facts related here.
Allah states that the fears of the unbelievers will be intensified in the here-
after. On Judgement Day, they will be addressed thus:

One day shall We gather them all together: We shall say to those who
ascribed partners [to Us]: "Where are the partners whom you (invent-
ed and) talked about?" (Surat al-An'am: 22)
In the Hereafter, unbelievers will bear witness to their possessions,
children and close friends leaving them and vanishing. They had
assumed themselves to be in contact with their originals in the world
and flattered themselves as partners with Allah. Allah stated this fact

in the verse "Behold! how they lie against their own souls! But the (lie)
which they invented will leave them in the lurch." (Surat al-An'am: 24)

The Gain of Believers

The facts-that matter is not absolute and that time is a perception-alarm mate-
rialists, but for true believers, just the opposite holds true. People with faith in
Allah become very glad to have perceived the secret behind matter, because this
reality is the key to every question. With this, all secrets are unlocked, and one
can easily understand many issues that previously seemed hard to grasp.
As said before, the issues of death, Paradise, Hell, the Hereafter, and chang-
ing dimensions will be comprehended. Important questions such as, "Where is
Allah?," "What existed before Allah?," "Who created Allah?," "How long will the life
in cemetery last?," "Where are Paradise and Hell?," and "Do Paradise and Hell cur-
rently exist?" will be easily answered. Once it's understood that Allah created the
entire universe from nothingness, the questions of "When?," and "Where?" become
meaningless, because there will be no time or place left. When spacelessness is
comprehended, it can be understood that Hell, Paradise and Earth are all actual-
ly in the same location. If timelessness is understood, it will be understood that
everything takes place at one single moment: Nothing need be awaited, and time
does not go by, because everything has already happened and finished.

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