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philosophies which are based on foundations of futility, taken the

transformation of particles, which they regard as the result of

coincidence, to be the fundamental basis of all their principles

and have shown that divine works and creatures result from

those transformations. Anyone with a grain of intelligence would

know how unreasonable it is to attribute creatures adorned with

infinite examples of wisdom to something based on a

purposeless, meaningless coincidence, which is quite without

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order.

In the statement above Bediüzzaman draws attention to the fact

that it is sheer nonsense for a person to attribute divinity to himself

and stresses that as a feeble and helpless being, man's attributing his

own existence and that of the flawless universe to "coincidences" and

his denial of Allah's existence is a great ingratitude on his part.

Bediüzzaman remarks that there will be an extensive embrace of such

irreligious movements in our time and that people must be saved from

this religion of irreligion:

A tyrannical current born of naturalist and materialist philosophy

will gradually become strong and spread toward the end of

time... reaching such a degree that it denies God... It is clear

just what foolish buffoonery it is for impotent man, who can be

27 The Risale-i-Nur Collection, Words, The Twenty-fifth Word, pp. 386-387 and The Thirtieth

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