Page 100 - Loyalty Described in the Qur'an

LOYALTY DESCRIBED IN THE QUR'AN
or when you turn on a hi-fi you always hear a hissing sound before the
music starts. However, the sounds that are the products of the human
body's technology are extremely sharp and clear. A human ear never
perceives a sound accompanied by a hissing sound or with atmos-

pherics as does a hi-fi; rather, it perceives sound exactly as it is, sharp
and clear. This is the way it has been since the creation of man.
So far, no man-made visual or recording apparatus has been as sen-
sitive and successful in perceiving sensory data as are the eye and the
ear. However, as far as seeing and hearing are concerned, a far greater
truth lies beyond all this.

To Whom Does the Consciousness that Sees and Hears
within the Brain Belong?

Who watches an alluring world in the brain, listens to symphonies
and the twittering of birds, and smells the rose?
The stimulations coming from a person's eyes, ears, and nose travel
to the brain as electro-chemical nerve impulses. In biology, physiology,

and biochemistry books, you can find many details about how this
image forms in the brain. However, you will never come across the
most important fact: Who perceives these electro-chemical nerve im-
pulses as images, sounds, odors, and sensory events in the brain?
There is a consciousness in the brain that perceives all this without
feeling any need for an eye, an ear, and a nose. To whom does this con-
sciousness belong? Of course it does not belong to the nerves, the fat

layer, and neurons comprising the brain. This is why Darwinist-mate-
rialists, who believe that everything is comprised of matter, cannot an-
swer these questions.
For this consciousness is the spirit created by Allah, which needs

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