Page 172 - The Truth of the Life of This World

As they witness their possessions, factories,
gold, money, children, spouses, friends, rank And behold! You
and status, and even their own bodies - all of come to Us bare and
which they deem absolute - slipping away alone as We created
from them hands, in a sense, they are you for the first
destroyed. They come face to face with the time: you have left
fact that Allah, not matter, is the only absolute. behind you all (the
Realizing this truth is doubtless the worst favours) which We
possible thing for the materialists. That matter bestowed on you…
in which they place such faith, is separated (Surat al-An'am: 94)
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 Allah. With the verse, "Leave Me alone,
[to deal] with the [creature] whom I created [bare and] alone!" Allah
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 Allah and returned to
Him. They have submitted themselves to Allah, whether they want to or not.
Now they wait for the Day of Judgement, when each one of them will be
called to account, however 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 Allah informs us
in the Qur'an that exists and that He created out of nothing is creat-
ed and does indeed exist. However, people cannot see, feel or hear the

170 The Secret Beyond Matter