Page 274 - The Evolution Deceit

This is most probably the biggest defeat in
history. As they grew more arrogant, material-
ists were tricked and suffered a serious defeat in
the struggle they attempted to wage against
Allah by bringing up something monstrous against
Him. The verse: "Thus have We placed leaders in every
town, its wicked men, to plot therein: but they only plot
against their own souls, and they do not perceive it," indi-
cates how lacking in awareness these people who ignorantly
revolt against our Creator are, and what their fate will be. (Surat
al- An'am: 123). In another verse the same fact is related:
Fain would they deceive Allah and those who believe, but they only
deceive themselves, and do not realise it! (Surat al-Baqarah, 9)
While the unbelievers try to plot, they do not realise a very important
fact, which is stressed by the words "they only deceive themselves, and do
not realise it!". This is the fact that everything they experience is a piece of
copy image they deal with in their minds, and they have experience of the
copies of all the plots they devise in their brains just like every other act they
perform. Their folly has made them forget that they are all alone with Allah
and, are thus entrapped in their own devious plans.
No less than those unbelievers who lived in the past, those living today
face a reality that will shake their devious plans to their very foundations.
With the statement that "…feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan" (Surat
an-Nisa, 76), Allah says that these plots were doomed to end with failure the
day they were hatched. He gives good tidings to believers with the assertion
that "…not the least harm will their cunning do you." (Surat 'Ali Imran, 120)
In another verse Allah says: "As for the unbelievers, their deeds are
like a mirage in sandy deserts, which the man parched with thirst mis-
takes for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing."
(Surat an-Nur, 39). Materialism, too, becomes a "mirage" for the rebellious,
just as stated in this verse; when they have recourse to it, they find it to be
nothing but an illusion. Allah has deceived them with such a mirage, and
shown them this whole collection of images as if they experienced their
originals. All those professors, astronomers, biologists, physicists, and all
others regardless of their rank and position are simply deceived like chil-
dren, and are humiliated because they unwisely took matter as their god.