Page 16 - Knowing The Truth

The reality behind matter is not a newly discovered, formerly
unknown subject. It is alluded to in a number of verses of the Qur'an and
is an important secret in the interpretation of some other verses.
Throughout history, Allah has sent apostles, and deeply aware and
devoted believers, who proclaimed this reality to their societies.
Texts containing portions of their proclamations have come down to
us today. Various degenerated forms of the true religion whose original
revelations have been distorted wanted to preserve this reality as a secret.
Therefore, it is possible to find this reality in the texts that survive in
Judaism and Christianity. Ancient Greek philosophers such as
Pythagoras, the Eleatic school of philosophy, Plato (especially in his
Allegory of the Cave) and a number of thinkers who followed them have
all expounded some aspects of this question. In later periods, this subject
has been related and taught by people who, under the influence of
different points of view and with various interpretations, have thought
about it openly and arrived at the truth.
Those who adopted materialism, the philosophy that claims that
matter is the one absolute principle of existence, tried to cover up this
reality. However, the Irish theologian and philosopher Berkeley raised this
question again in the 18th century and, in so doing, changed the world of
ideas after him. After Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, the
materialists, especially Bertrand Russell, the spokesman of this school,
attempted to insult and slander Berkeley, because they were unable to give