us.Photons are light particles with varying wavelengths. These waves
reach us and turn into electrical signals when they strike the retina
in our eyes. The electrical signals move along a predetermined path
and eventually reach the visual center in the brain. And there they
assume meaning in a quite amazing way: We are sure that what we see is
really there, and that there really is a television or a skyscraper in
front of us.
No matter how convincing the image of a skyscraper may be, what you
perceive as matter in fact consists of nothing more than electrical
signals. And the image forms in your brain, not in front of you. The
real image of the skyscraper outside will never reach you. All you
perceive, as electrical signals, is the light waves emitted from it.
To put it anotherway, what you see is nothing more than light waves
and electrical signals. For that reason, throughout your life youonly
experience an illusory image of a skyscraper, never the original of
it. Despite being an illusion, however, it still has a perfectly clear
and flawless appearance. It isvery difficult for you to realize the
fact that it consists only of electricalsignals. The image is so
perfectly created in the brain that it is almost impossible to
distinguishit from the original. This is the immaculate artistry of
our Almighty Lord.
A miracle is created every day, every moment in the human brain.
Although only electrical signals reach the brain, and although the
interior of the brain is pitch black and although this region is only
a few square centimeters in size, all the mountains, seas, fields, the
sky, endless wastes, houses, televisions, people, treesand in short
everything we see are all in the brain. Everything there is colored.
But there is no color in the brain. Everything there is light and
bright, but there is no light in the brain, noreven outside it.
Everything there is noisy and accompanied by sound, but the interior
of the brain is completely silent. There is a depth to everything
there; the stars seem very far away, while a pencil we hold in our
hand seems very close. But in fact everything is on the same plane in
ourbrains and at the same distance. The Sun seems to be thousands of
kilometers away. But it isactually right next to us, inside our
brains. The reason why the Sun exists in our brains is simply and
solely electrical signals. A heavenly body we know to be thousands of
kilometers across is actually created in a space of just a few square
centimeters. And,to remind ourselves, it exists solely as an
electrical signal, that we cannot hold in our hands nor even really
know exists.
For that reason, the world we see is not the original of matter. We
can never have direct experience of the original of matter on
theoutside. Our world is limited to what we are shown on the screens
in our brains. Apart from that, we have no guarantee whether entities
really exist or not, just as we have no guarantee whether the world
created for us is the same as the real world on the outside.
The world we see is the world that Allah transmits to our souls. There
is no matter in that world; no hardness, softness, scent or color.
There are only electrical signals. Allah makes electrical signals the
causes of the bright and colorful world He shows our souls. And it is
the soul He created for human beings that perceives and interprets
these images, rejoices, grieves, doubts, feels joyand longing,
remembers, loves and feels excitement in that world.
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