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believe in, they revolt against Allah who created them. The scenario

they formulate maintains that matter has no beginning or end and that

it could not possibly have a creator. Because of their arrogance, they

deny Allah and depend upon matter, which they deem to have real

existence. They have been so confident in this philosophy that they

thought it would never be possible to prove the contrary.

That is why the facts in this chapter regarding the real nature of

matter surprised these people so much. What has been presented

here destroys the very basis of their philosophy and leaves no ground

for further discussion. Matter, upon which they had based all their

thought and livelihood, their arrogance and denial, has vanished all of

a sudden. How can materialism exist when matter does not?

One of the attributes of Allah is His strategy against the

unbelievers:

"But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of

planners. 110

Allah entrapped the materialists by making them assume that

matter exists, and in doing so, humiliated them in a subtle way.

Materialists, sure that their possessions, status, society, the world and

everything else really existed, grew arrogant against Allah by relying

on these things. They revolted against Allah boastfully and increased

109 Surah an-Nur, 24:39.

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