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76 KNOWING THE TRUTH

AISHA: That's exciting!

AHMED: And besides being amazing, once more we learn our own
strength is to no avail and we are witnesses to the power of Allah.

MURAD: What you said is very true, Ahmed. People like you
who've come to know the truth, understand that Allah has placed the
whole three-dimensional universe with its color, shadow and light into a
dark space of a few cubic centimeters in the brain, must think about Allah,
fear Him and take refuge in Him.

IBRAHIM: I understand too that our brain is also a perception. There
can be only one thing that does the perceiving, and that is the soul that
Allah has created and given to us. It's clear that the soul is a special
existence different from an impression. I don't know how I could have
thought before now that all these activities were performed by the brain.

MURAD: A characteristic of the soul is to be affected by the
impressions it sees. Impressions lead to the formation of sensations like
satisfaction, pain, happiness and fear in the soul. These impressions are
created in a way to affect the soul and the soul is created to be affected by
them. In this way, each of us finds ourselves in our own world. It's a place
of testing. So, what we call the world appears to be a group of particular
impressions perceived by the soul.

AISHA: If the soul is the only existence that perceives impressions,
there must be a supreme existence apart from the soul that causes us to
see these impressions. Moreover, there must be a fundamental purpose in
our being made to see these impressions.

MURAD: Yes, actually we can understand it without protracting the
discussion too much. As you also know, it's Allah Who is the Possessor of
supreme knowledge and Who causes us to see everything. He
uninterruptedly impresses these images in our souls. In this way, Allah