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children, their wealth, even their own personalities - is an illusion. People
are very afraid of this reality and pretend not to understand it even if they
do. They try with determination to disprove the facts, which are simple
enough for even a primary school child to understand. The reason behind
this opposition is that they are afraid to lose what this world offers.
For someone who is attached to his possessions, his children, or the
transient offerings of this world, the illusory nature of matter is cause for
great fear. At the moment such a person understands this, he will have died
before his natural death, and he will have surrendered his possessions and
his soul. In the verse, "If He did ask you for it (all your wealth) and put
you under pressure, you would be tight-fisted and it would bring out
your malevolence." (Surah Muhammad: 37), Allah reveals how human
beings will behave with meanness and rancor when He demands their pos-
sessions from them.
But when a person learns the real nature of matter, he will understand
that his soul and his possessions already belong to Allah. If he knows that
there is nothing to give or to resist giving, he will submit himself and all he
possesses to Allah before he dies. For sincere believers, this is a beautiful
and honorable thing and a way to draw nearer to Allah. Those who do not
believe or whose faith is weak cannot recognize this beauty and stubbornly
reject this reality.

The Environment that Will Come to be When the

Real Nature of Matter is not Kept Secret
Those who know that they have no connection with the actual material
things, and that they are in the presence only of images that Allah presents
to them, will change their whole way of living, their view of life and their
values. This will be a change that will be useful both from the personal and
social point of view, because someone who sees this truth will live without
difficulty according to the high moral qualities that Allah has revealed in the
Qur'an.
For those who do not regard the world as important and who under-
stand that matter is an illusion, it is spiritual things that deserve to be given
importance. Someone who knows that Allah is listening to him and watch-
ing him at every moment, and is aware that he will render an account of his
every action in the hereafter, will naturally live a morally virtuous life. He