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idols will be taken out of their hands and where they themselves will be caught in the traps they have set.
God reveals how throughout history He has responded to the traps set by deniers.
... they were planning and God was planning, but God is the Best of Planners. (Surat al-Anfal: 30)

By giving people the impression that they are in contact with the source of matter, God has made mate-
rialists fall into a trap and has humiliated them in a way that has not been seen before. They have regarded
as absolute being things composed of illusion—their possessions and property, positions and titles, the so-

ciety in which they live, in fact, the whole world. And by trusting in these things, they exalt themselves be-
fore God. In their arrogance they rebel and go forward in their denials. While doing this, their only strength
lies in matter. But they have fallen into such a lack of understanding that they never think that God encom-
passes and surrounds them. In the Qur’an, God reveals the final condition that deniers will reach as a result

of their lack of understanding:
Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who disbelieve. (Surat at-Tur: 42)

Materialists have not yet realized that they are moving step by step towards the greatest defeat in their
history. For example, when they have discovered that all images are perceptions in the brain, they have not
been able to take into account that this will cause the foundation of their belief to collapse. When a materi-
alist scientist, at the end of his researches, discovers that things are not really composed of material sub-

stance, as he had believed, he has given a blow to materialist belief with his own hands. In one verse, God
reveals that deniers will unconsciously fall into the trap that they themselves have set:
And likewise in every city We set up its greatest wrongdoers to plot in it. They plot against themselves alone,

but they are not aware of it. (Surat al-An'am: 123)
No doubt, the realization of this fact is the most horrible thing that could happen to a materialist. The
fact that everything he owns is composed of illusion is, in his own words, to be sentenced to a living death.

Together with this reality, only God and they are left. In this verse, God points out the fact that everyone
is totally alone in His presence.
Leave the person I created on his own to Me alone. (Surat al-Muddaththir: 11)

This remarkable fact is also revealed in many other verses:

You have come to Us all alone just as We created you at first, leaving behind you everything We bestowed on
you... (Surat al-An'am: 94)
Each of them will come to Him on the Day of Rising all alone. (Surah Maryam: 95)
In another verse, God reveals that deniers will be addressed with these words on

the Last Day:
On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who associated others

with God, "Where are the partner-gods, for whom you made such claims?" (Surat
al-An'am: 22)
After this, deniers will see the loss and destruction of all the things
they regarded as more important than God, things they thought existed in

the world such as possessions, children and all the things around
them. God reveals this truth in this verse:

See how they lie against themselves and how what they invented has
forsaken them! (Surat al-An'am: 24)
The 21st century is a turning point in which this reality will be
spread among all people and materialism will be wiped off the

face of the earth. Why people believed what they believed in the
past or held the opinions they held is not important. What is
important is that, after seeing the truth, they must not resist it

and not be too late to understand this truth which will be
completely understood at the time of death. We must not
forget that there is no escape from truth.

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