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Harun Yahya

A similar example is given by Friedrich Engels, the mentor of Politzer and along with Marx, the founder
of dialectic materialism. He wrote that "if the cakes we eat were mere perceptions, they would not stop our
hunger." 200
There are similar examples in the books of famous materialists such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others

along with impetuous sentences such as, "You understand the existence of matter when you are slapped in the
face."
The disordered comprehension that engenders such examples arises from materialists' interpreting the
explanation "We cannot reach the original of matter" as involving the sense of sight only. They think that per-

ception is limited to sight, and that touching can get us directly to the essence of matter. A bus knocking a
man down makes people say, "Look, it hit him! Therefore, he confronted the original." They don't under-
stand that all the perceptions experienced during a crash—hard metal, the force of collision, pain—are in fact
formed in the brain.

The Example of Dreams

The fact is, whichever of the five senses we take as a starting point, we can't ever actually reach the orig-

inal of the external world that exists outside. A significant evidence of this is the way we imagine the exis-
tence of things that in fact do not exist in our dreams. In dreams, we can experience very realistic events. We
can fall down the stairs and break a leg, have a serious car accident, get stuck under a bus, or eat a heavy

meal and feel satiated. Events similar to those experienced in daily life are experienced in dreams too, with
the same persuasiveness and rousing the same emotions.
A person who dreams of being knocked down by a bus can open his eyes in a hospital—again in his
dream—and realize that he is disabled. But all this would remain a dream. Also, he can dream of dying in a
car crash, that angels of death retrieve his soul, and his life in the Hereafter begins.

The images, sounds, feeling of hardness, pain, light, colours—all the feelings pertaining to the event he
experiences in his dream—are perceived very sharply. They seem as natural as the ones in real life. The cake
he eats in his dream satiates him, although it is a mere perception, because feeling satisfied is a perception

too. At that moment, however, this person is lying in his bed. There are really no stairs, no traffic, no buses,
no cake, because the dreamer experiences perceptions and feelings that don't exist in the external world. The
fact that our dreams give us events with no physical, external correlates clearly reveals that the "world out
there" is one whose true essence we can never know. We can learn the true nature of that world only from the
revelation of Almighty God, Who created it.

Those who believe in the materialist philosophy, the Marxists in particular, are enraged when informed
of this reality. They quote examples from the superficial, ignorant reasoning of Marx, Engels, or Lenin and
else make emotional declarations.

However, they should realize that they can make these declarations in a dream as well. They can dream
of reading Das Kapital, participating in meetings, and even feel the pain of getting involved in a fistfight.
When asked—in their dream—they will think that what they see is absolute reality, just as they assume that
everything they see while awake is absolutely real. But they should know that everything they experience—
be it in a dream or in their daily lives—consists of only perceptions whose "real" source they can never reach.

The Example of a Shared Nervous System

Let us consider Politzer's car crash example: If the injured victim's nerves travelling from his five senses
to his brain, were connected in parallel to another person's—Politzer's, for instance—then at the instant the
bus hit that person, Politzer, sitting at his home at that same time, would feel the impact too. Politzer would
experience all the sensations experienced by the person undergoing the accident, just as the same song will

issue from two different loudspeakers connected to the same tape recorder. Politzer will hear the braking of
the bus, feel its impact on his body, see the sights of a broken arm and spreading blood, suffer the aching frac-
tures, experience entering the operation room, the hardness of the plaster cast, and the feebleness of his heal-

ing arm.

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