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Harun Yahya

another power outside that of God. However, that can never be the case with a true believer. Such a per-
son has no fear of anything but God. When he comes by any strength or power, he knows that these re-
ally belong to God. When a doctor finds a cure for his sickness, he praises God as the One who has really
supplied the cure. He knows that the doctor is just an agent for the cure God has caused to come about.

God always creates the most beautiful and best of everything. That fact must never be forgotten. In
one verse, God reveals:
Return to your Lord, well-pleasing and well-pleased! (Surat al-Fajr: 28)

A person must always be content with every event that God creates. In that case it can be clearly un-
derstood how this truth we are discussing can bring people closer to God. What is more, when the
Qur’an is read again with this truth in mind, the wisdom in many of the verses can be more readily ap-

preciated.
It is true, however, that someone who does not believe in God, who is trapped by his worldly desires,
who has no hope of the hereafter, and who holds materialist views, could be made terribly uneasy by this
situation. It is truly disappointing and crushing for such people to understand that all the things they de-

sire, all the people they assume to have absolute existence, are really just illusions. When they under-
stand the truth, they will see that they have spent all their lives chasing illusions, and wearing
themselves out in vain with their desires. They will see that they wasted their energies in denying the
truth. They will be truly saddened by that, and even humiliated.

They will also suffer grave disappointment in the hereafter from assuming that all such illusions
were truly real.
Those are the people who have lost their own selves. What they invented has abandoned them. Without

question they will be the greatest losers in the hereafter. (Surah Hud: 21-22)
Yet, the fact that everything is an illusion, that God is all that truly exists, is a source of great joy to
anyone who accepts God as his only friend and protector, and who genuinely loves Him.

Objection: "Is the end of this world of perception nothingness? Can people remain in that nothingness?"
Reply: One of the things that prevent people from thinking about this subject is that they are fright-

ened of remaining in complete nothingness. When they consider the implications of this, they realize that
what they think they touch is actually nothing at all. However, nothing apart from the will of God can re-
move any of the causes that He has created to test us in this world. These causes will continue to be cre-
ated until the moment of our death.

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