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No doubt, realising this truth is the worst possible situation for materi-
alists. The fact that everything they possess is only an illusion is tanta-
mount, in their own words, to "death before dying" in this world.

This fact leaves them alone with Allah. With the verse, "Leave Me
alone, (to deal) with the (creature) whom I created (bare and)
alone", Allah calls us to attend to the fact that each human being is, in
truth, all alone in His presence. (Surat al- Muddaththir: 11). This remark-
able 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: 6)
And each one of them will come to Him on the Day of Resurrection, alone.
(Surah Maryam: 19)
This, on another level, is what the verses indicate: those who take mat-
ter as their god have come from Allah and returned to Him. They have sub-
mitted their wills to Allah whether they want or not. Now they wait for the
day of judgement when everyone of them will be called to account, how-
ever unwilling they may be to understand it.

CONCLUSION
The subject we have explained so far is one of the greatest truths that
you will ever be told in your lifetime. Proving that the whole material
world is in reality a "shadow being", this subject is the key to compre-
hending the being of Allah and His creation and of understanding that He
is the only absolute being.
The person who understands this subject realises that the world is not
the sort of place it is thought by most people to be. The world is not an
absolute place with a true existence as supposed by those who wander
aimlessly about the streets, get into fights in pubs, show off in luxurious
cafes, brag about their property, or who dedicate their lives to hollow aims.
The world is only a collection of perceptions, an illusion. All of the peo-
ple we have cited above are only shadow beings who watch these per-
ceptions in their minds; yet, they are not aware of this.
This concept is very important for it undermines the materialist phi-

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