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As is clearly stated in the above verses, it is not possible for anyone other than God to help anyone else.
Not even a person's parents, children or friends, whose existence he assumes throughout the course of his
life, can actually do anything to help him. Help from friends and family only happens by the will and per-
mission of God. It is not even possible for someone to help himself outside the will of God. It is even im-

possible for anyone to walk, see or feel, in short to survive, if that is not the will of God.
Neither must we forget that things and people, of whose external existence we can have no idea, but
which some people claim to have physical existence in the external world, will be taken away from those
who make such suggestions in the hereafter. As the Qur’an has revealed, everyone will be called to account

all alone. In other words, in the same way that everyone is actually alone with God in this world, so he will
be called to account in the same way after death. God states this in a verse;
You have come to Us all alone just as We created you at first, leaving behind you everything We bestowed on

you. We do not see your intercessors accompanying you, those you claimed were your partners with God.
The link between you is cut. Those you made such claims for have forsaken you. (Surat al-An'am: 94)
When looking at a friend, for instance, everyone sees the image of a friend that God creates in his mind.

If the nerves to his brain are cut, the image of his friend will disappear. It is only God Who is Living and
Eternal. So how, in that case, can anyone be attached to anything, the original of which he can never estab-
lish contact with, and which only exists in his mind? It must not be forgotten that it is only God Whom a
person must love and submit to.

Objection: "A person wants his loved ones to be as real and permanent as he is."

Reply: Some of those who object to this matter say: "A person wants his friends to be as real and per-
manent as he is. How can they be any different?"
Such statements show that these people have not understood what we have been saying about the true
nature of matter, or else have not thought deeply enough about it. People who say such things are not "real

The rising and set-
ting of the sun are
images that form
in peoples' brains.
A person watches
the sunset in his
mind, and it is his
soul that takes
pleasure in it.

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