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sion to God. In some verses of the Qur’an, God reveals that there will be no fear or sorrow for believers.
One verse reads:

Those who say, "Our Lord is God," and then go straight will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (Surat
al-Ahqaf: 13)
A person who knows that throughout his whole life everything that has happened, and every sound he
has heard, are images created by God in his brain will, instead of becoming fearful and vainly filled with anx-

iety and panic, trust in the endless mercy and compassion of the Creator who made him and these images.

The Environment That Will Come To Be When The Real Nature Of

Matter Is Not Kept Secret

Those who know that they have no connection with the actual material things, and that they are in
the presence only of images that God presents to them, will change their whole way of living, their view
of life and their values. This will be a change that will be useful both from the personal and social point

of view, because someone who sees this truth will live without difficulty according to the high moral
qualities that God has revealed in the Qur’an.
For those who do not regard the world as important and who understand that matter is an illusion, it
is spiritual things that deserve to be given importance. Someone who knows that God is listening to him

and watching him at every moment, and is aware that he will render an account of his every action in the
hereafter, will naturally live a morally virtuous life. He will be very careful about what God has com-
manded and what He has forbidden. Everyone in society will be filled with love and respect for one an-
other, and everyone will compete with one another in the performance of good and noble deeds. People

will change the values according to which they judge others. Material things will lose their value and
therefore, people will be judged not according to their standing and position in society but according to
their moral character and their piety. No one will pursue those things whose source is illusion; everyone
will seek after truth. Everyone will act without worrying about what others will think; the only question

in their minds will be whether or not God will be pleased with what they do. In the place of the feelings
of pride, arrogance and self-satisfaction that come from possessions, property, standing and position,
there will be a sense of the understanding of humility and dependence. Therefore, people will willingly
live according to those examples of good moral qualities spoken of in the Qur’an. Eventually, these

changes will put an end to many problems of today's societies.
In place of angry, aggressive people, anxious even about small profit, there will be those who know
that everything they see is an illusion. They will be well aware that reactions of anger and loud shouting
make them look foolish. Well-being and trust will prevail in individuals and societies and everyone will

be pleased with his life and possessions. These, then, are some of the blessings that this hidden reality
will bring to individuals and societies. Knowing, considering and living according to this reality will
bring many more goodnesses to human beings. Those who wish to attain these goodnesses should con-
sider this reality well and endeavor to understand it. In one verse, God says,

Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees clearly, does so to his own benefit.
Whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment... (Surat al-An'am: 104)

Knowing The Real Nature Of Matter Is The End Of Materialism

The philosophy of materialism is the worldview that is most threatened by the fact that the material
world is an impression shown to our spirits, and that we cannot know whether or not anything exists
outside our minds. In order to understand this better, we must look at the general definition of material-
ism. Materialism is defined in materialist writings as:

Materialism accepts the eternity and endlessness of the world, that it is not created by God and is infinite in

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