Page 185 - Allah is Known through Reason

firmation is also imagery, which is experienced in the mind.
These people also experience the same events in their dreams. For
instance, Senel may also see in his dream that he speaks on the telephone
and then have this conversation confirmed by the person to whom he
spoke. Pekunlu may in his dream feel himself facing "a serious threat" and
advising people to read century-old books of Lenin. However, no matter
what they do, these materialists can never deny that the events they have
experienced and the people they have talked to in their dreams are noth-
ing but perceptions.
Who, then, will confirm whether the images in the brain have
correlates or not? The shadow beings in the brain? Without doubt, it is
impossible for materialists to find a source of information that can yield
data concerning the outside of the brain and confirm it.
Conceding that all perceptions are formed in the brain, but assuming
that one can step "out" of this and have the perceptions confirmed by the
real external world, reveals that the intellectual capacity of the person is
limited and that his reasoning is distorted.
However, any person with a normal level of understanding and rea-
soning can easily grasp these facts. Every unbiased person knows, in rela-
tion to all that we have said, that it is not possible for him to test the exis-
tence of the external world with his senses. Yet, it appears that blind adher-
ence to materialism distorts the reasoning capacity of people. For this rea-
son, contemporary materialists display severe logical flaws in their reason-
ing just like their mentors who tried to "prove" the existence of matter by
kicking stones or eating cakes.
It also has to be said that this is not an astonishing situation, because
inability to understand is a common trait of all unbelievers. In the Qur'an,
Allah particularly states that they are "a people without understanding"
(Surat al-Ma'idah: 58)

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