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Harun Yahya

A person who hugs his
child, embraces his spouse
and chats with this mother
thinks that these people
are more intimate with
him than anyone else.
However, God is closer to
a person than this friend,
spouse, children, or even
himself. As it is revealed in
the Qur’an, God is nearer
to a person than his jugu-
lar vein. (Surah Qaf: 16)

You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur’an or do any action without Our witnessing you

while you are occupied with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on earth or in heaven.
Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Surah Yunus: 61)
Certainly God, Who is Absolute Being, knows every aspect of the human beings which He has cre-

ated as illusions. This is a very simple thing for God. But some in their ignorance may find this hard to
understand. However, when we observe the impressions we think are the "external world", that is, as we
lead our lives, the closest being to us is not an impression, it is clearly God. The secret of the verse "We
created man and We know what his own self whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular

vein" (Surah Qaf: 16) is hidden in this fact. But when a person thinks that his body is composed of mat-
ter, he cannot conceive of this important reality; this is again because he thinks that the nearest thing to
him is his body. For example, if this person conceives of his existence as being his brain, he does not
admit the possibility that there is a being closer to him than his jugular vein. However, when he con-

ceives of the fact that there is no such thing as matter, and that everything is a facsimile that he experi-
ences in his mind, then concepts such as outside, inside, far and near have no meaning. His jugular vein,
his brain, hands, feet, his house and his car that he thought were outside himself, even the sun, the moon
and the stars that he thought were so far away, are all on the same plane. God has encompassed him all

around and is eternally near to him.
That God is eternally near to human beings is also revealed in this verse: "If My servants ask you
about Me, I am near (to them)..." (Surat al-Baqara: 186) In another verse the same reality is expressed,
"Surely your Lord encompasses mankind round about." (The Qur’an, 17: 60). In spite of this, people

continue to err by thinking that the nearest thing to themselves is themselves. However, God is closer to
us even than we are to ourselves. The fact that God is the nearest Being to a human being is emphasized
again in these verses: "Why then, when death reaches his throat and you are at that moment looking
on—and We are nearer him than you but you cannot see" (Surat al-Waqi'a: 83-85) Indeed, a person on

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