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Just as they want to dismiss this reality from their minds, they also want

other people to discard it. They are also aware that if people in general
know the true nature of matter, the primitive nature of their own philoso-
phy and the ignorance of their worldview will be bared for all to see, and
there will be no ground left on which they can found their views. These
fears are the reasons why they are so disturbed at the facts related here.
Allah states that the fears of the unbelievers will be intensified in the
hereafter. On the day of judgement, they will be addressed thus:
One day shall We gather them all together. We shall say to those who
ascribed partners (to Us): "Where are the partners whom you (invented
and) talked about?" (Surat al-An'am: 22)
After that, unbelievers will witness their possessions, children and their
intimates, whom they had assumed to be real and had ascribed as partners
to Allah, leaving them and vanishing. Allah informs us of this in the verse
"Behold! How they lie against their own selves! But the (lie) which
they invented left them in the lurch." (Surat al-An'am: 24).

THE GAIN OF BELIEVERS
While the fact that matter and time are perceptions alarms materialists,
the opposite holds true for believers. People of faith become very glad
when they perceive the secret behind matter, because this reality is the key
to all questions. With this key, all secrets are unlocked. One comes easily
to understand many issues that one previously had difficulty in under-

standing.
As said before, the questions of death, paradise, hell, the hereafter,
changing dimensions, and questions such as "Where is Allah?" "What was
before Allah?" "Who created Allah?" "How long will life in the grave last?"
"Where are heaven and hell?" and "Where do heaven and hell currently
exist?" are easily answered. It will be understood with what kind of order
Allah created the entire universe from out of nothing, so much so that, with
this secret, the questions of "when?" and "where?" become meaning-
less because there are no time and no space left. When spacelessness is
grasped, it will be understood that hell, heaven and earth are all actually

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