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The basic mistake of those who deny Allah is shared by many others
who don't actually deny His existence, but have wrong perceptions of
Him. These people, constituting the majority of society, do not deny cre-
ation, but have superstitious beliefs about Allah, most believing that Allah

is only "up in the sky." They tacitly and falsely imagine that Allah is off
behind some very distant planet and only occasionally interferes with
worldly affairs. Or perhaps He doesn't intervene at all: He created the uni-
verse, and then left it to itself, leaving us humans to determine our fates
for ourselves.
Still others have heard the fact that Allah is "everywhere," as revealed
in the Qur'an, but cannot understand exactly what this means.
Superstitiously, they think that Allah surrounds all matter like radio waves
or like an invisible, intangible gas. (Allah is certainly beyond that.)
However, this and other notions that cannot clarify "where" Allah is
(and perhaps deny Him accordingly) are all based on a common mistake:
They hold a groundless prejudice that moves them to wrong opinions
about Allah.
What is this prejudice? It concerns the existence and nature of matter.
Most people have been conditioned to assume that the material universe
we see is itself the true reality. Modern science, however, demolishes this
position and discloses a very important and imposing truth. In the follow-
ing pages, we will explain this great reality to which the Qur'an points.

The World of Electrical Signals

All the information we have about the world is conveyed to us by our
five senses. Thus, the world we know consists of what our eyes see, our
hands feel, our nose smells, our tongue tastes, and our ears hear. We never
believe that the external world can be other than what our senses present
to us, since we've depended on those senses since the day we were born.
Yet modern research in many different fields of science points to a very
different understanding, creating serious doubt about the "outside" world
that we perceive with our senses.
For this new understanding, the starting point is that everything we per-

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