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Harun Yahya

This is no astonishing situation. The inability to understand—that is, interpret the world and events with
decent reasoning—is a trait common to unbelievers. In the Qur'an, God 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 ex-
amples 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 ma-
terial 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 God Who created
them. They maintained that matter is eternal, that none of it could possibly have had a Creator. While deny-
ing God out of their arrogance, they took refuge in matter alone, with which they held themselves to be in di-
rect 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 philosophy 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 God is His plotting against the unbelievers. This is stated in the verse; "They plot
and plan, and God too plans; but the best of planners is God." (Surat al-Anfal: 30)
God 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
God. 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 real-

ize that God compasses them round about. God announces the state to which the unbelievers are led as a re-
sult of their thick-headedness:
Or do they intend a plot [against you]? But those who defy God are themselves involved in a Plot! (Surat at-
Tur: 42)

Theirs is most probably the biggest intellectual defeat in history. While growing arrogant of their own ac-
cord, materialists have been tricked and suffered a serious defeat in their war against God by bringing up
something monstrous against Him. The verse "Thus have We placed leaders in every town, its wicked men,

to plot [and burrow] therein: but they only plot against their own souls, and they perceive it not" (Surat al-
An'am: 123) announces how unconscious these people who revolt against our Creator are, and how they will
end up. In another verse the same fact is related as:
Fain would they deceive God and those who believe, but they only deceive themselves, and realise (it) not!
(Surat al-Baqara: 9)

While trying to plot, unbelievers do not realize the very important fact that everything they experience is
really experienced in their brains, and all the plots they devise are simply formed in their brains, just like

every other act they perform. Their folly has let them forget that they are all alone with God and, hence, are
trapped in their own devious plans.
Just like those unbelievers of bygone days, those living today face a reality that will shatter the basis of
their devious plans. With the verse "...feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan" (Surat an-Nisa': 76), God has
stated that these plots were doomed to end with failure the day they were hatched, and gave the good tid-

ings to believers with the verse "...not the least harm will their cunning do to you." (Surah Al 'Imran: 120)
In another verse God states: "But the Unbelievers, their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts, which
the man parched with thirst mistakes for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing."

(Surat an-Nur: 39) Materialism, too, offers a mirage for the rebellious; when they have recourse to material-

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