Page 807 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

Saying, "God creates everything as an image" is not
the same as saying, "These things do not exist." All
that God creates: people, buildings, lakes, the sky and
everything else, really exists. However, they all exist
as images, and we can only see them in our brains.

This scientist has seen the fact that the mater-
ial world is actually an "illusion" in the light of sci-
entific discoveries, and is only one of the

scientists who have done so. Those who reject
this evident scientific truth do so for ideologi-
cal reasons, not scientific ones. That is because
these scientists do not wish to accept this fact, knowing

as they do that it will completely undermine the mate-
rialism to which they are so stubbornly attached. In
fact, Dr. Wolf makes it clear that this reality will exclude
any possibility of materialism.

When we consider the scientific results that have
been obtained, there is no credibility in treating the
fact that we perceive the outside world in our brains
as a philosophical speculation. It is not a philosophi-

cal speculation at all, but a scientific fact clearly revealed by scientific discoveries. It is a fact that
everyone lives within, and which nobody can deny. Everyone, religious or not, knows that uncondition-
ally, and even if someone does reject it, that rejection is meaningless.

Objection: "Is the subject of the truth of matter the same as the idea of the unity of being (Wahdat al-
Wujud)?"

Reply: It is true that the idea of the unity of being is something that many Islamic scholars of the past
have discussed while considering some subjects that appear in this book. However, what is being dis-
cussed here is not exactly the same as the unity of being.
Throughout history, many scholars and thinkers have explained this principle. Some of them, how-

ever, have been led astray by a false idea, and have seen the things that God has created as totally non-ex-
istent. However, to say that matter is an illusion formed inside our brains does not mean that "none of the
things we see exist." That is because all the things we see, the mountains, meadows, flowers, people,
seas, in short everything we see, everything whose existence God has described in the Qur’an, has

been created and does exist. However, each and every one exists as an image.
Everything created by God exists whether we see it or not. It has in any case been created, and as we
have seen, it will continue to exist under the memory of God from the moment it is created until the mo-
ment it dies. (For further information see Eternity Has Already Begun by Harun Yahya).

As a result of this, the fact that matter is an illusion in our minds does not mean it does not exist. But
this fact does tell us something about the true nature of matter i.e. that it is a perception.

Objection: "How can anyone love something he knows to be an illusion? If we accept that everything is an
illusion formed within our minds, how are we to love our mothers, fathers, friends and the prophets?"
Reply: A person asking this question does not know, or has not understood that he is also an illusion.

Whereas he accepts his friends and family as illusions, he accepts himself as absolute. However, like
those close to him, he is also an illusion. The body he sees and touches, like those of those he loves, is an
image that forms inside his brain.

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