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ism, they find its philosophy to be nothing but deceptive. God has deceived them with such a mirage, and
beguiled them into perceiving matter as an absolute. All those eminent professors, astronomers, biologists,
physicists and all others, regardless of their rank and post, are simply deceived and humiliated because they

took matter as their god. Assuming matter, whose essence they can never reach, to be absolute, they based
their philosophy and ideology on it, grew involved in serious discussions, adopting a so-called "intellectual"
discourse. They deemed themselves wise enough to argue about the truth of the universe and, more seri-
ously to interpret God with their limited intelligence. God explains their situation in the following verse:

And [the unbelievers] plotted and planned, and God too planned, and the best of planners is God. (Surah Al
'Imran: 54)
One may possibly escape from some plots in the world; but God's plan against the unbelievers is so firm

that there is no avoiding it. No matter what they do or to whom they appeal, never can they find any helper
other than God. As God informs in the Qur'an, "they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a
help." (Surat an-Nisa': 173)
Materialists never expected to fall into such a trap. Having all the means of the twenty-first century at
their disposal, they believed they could grow obstinate in their denial and drag others into disbelief. This

ever-lasting mentality of unbelievers and their end are described as follows in the Qur'an:
They plotted and planned, but We too planned, even while they perceived it not. Then see what was the
end of their plot! - this, that We destroyed them and their people, all [of them]. (Surat an-Naml: 50-51)

This, in another sense, is what the fact stated in the verses comes to mean: Materialists are now told that
everything they own is actually in their brains, and therefore, everything they possess has been rendered
valueless. As they witness their possessions, factories, gold, money, children, spouses, friends, rank and sta-
tus, and even their own bodies—all of which they deem absolute—slipping away from them hands, in a

sense, they are destroyed. They come face to face with the fact that God, not matter, is the only absolute.
Realizing this truth is doubtless the worst possible thing for the materialists. That matter in which they
place such faith, is separated from them by an impenetrable frontier is, in their own words, tantamount to

"death before dying" in this world.
This leaves them all alone with God. With the verse, "Leave Me alone, [to deal] with the [creature]
whom I created [bare and] alone!" God has called our attention to the fact that each human being is, in truth,
all alone in His presence. (Surat al-Muddaththir: 11) This remarkable fact is repeated in many other verses:

"And behold! You come to Us bare and alone as We created you for the first time: you have left behind you
all [the favours] which We bestowed on you..." (Surat al-An'am: 94)
And each one of them will come unto Him on the Day of Resurrection, alone. (Surah Maryam: 95)

This, in another sense, is what the fact stated in the verses comes to mean: Those who take matter as their
god have come from God and returned to Him. They have submitted themselves to God, whether they want
to or not. Now they wait for the Day of Judgement, when each one of them will be called to account, how-

ever unwilling they may be to understand it.

The Importance of the Subject

It is of the utmost importance to understand correctly the secret beyond matter explained in this chapter.
Mountains, plains, flowers, people, seas—briefly everything we see and everything that God informs us
in the Qur'an that exists and that He created out of nothing is created and does indeed exist. However,
people cannot see, feel or hear the real nature of these beings through their sense organs. What they see and

feel are only their copies that appear in their brains. This is a scientific fact taught at all schools of medicine.
The same applies to the book you are reading now; you can not see nor touch the real nature of it. The light
coming from the original book is converted by some cells in your eyes into electrical signals, which are then

conveyed to the visual centre in the back of your brain. This is where the view of this book is created. In other
words, you are not reading a book which is before your eyes through your eyes; in fact, this book is created
in the visual centre in the back of your brain. The book you are reading right now is a "copy of the book"

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