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destroyed by a fly and cannot create even a fly's wing, to claim

godhood. 28

As stressed by Bediüzzaman, it is beyond reason and logic to

believe that lifeless matter created the universe and life by itself. It is

impossible to say that a man of such belief has wisdom and faculty of

reason. Indeed, Prophet Abraham expressed the foolish attitude of

those who prostrate themselves before idols carved of wood:

He said, 'Then do you worship instead of Allah that which

does not benefit you at all or harm you? Shame on you

and what you worship instead of Allah. Then will you not

use reason?' 29

False Religions Formed by the Materialist and Evolutionist

Outlook on Life

The foregoing exposition should have given a clear conception of

the ambition of materialists to raise masses of people who deny Allah

and His religion and produce a type of man who assumes he is not

accountable to anyone. At the root of materialist philosophy lies the

desire for a society that rejects not only the existence of Allah but

Word, p. 551.
28 The Risale-i-Nur Collection, Letters, The Fifteenth Letter, p. 56.
29 Surah al-Anbiya’, 21:66-67.

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