A Sign in the Qur’an

In the Qur'an, there are certain indications that in Allah's sight,
there is no past or future and that, for Him, time is a single moment.
Events that lie are in the future for us are related in the Qur'an as
if they were long past. This is because Allah has already created the
past and the future as one single moment. For this reason, he speaks
of a future event of as having already come to an end. But because we
cannot perceive it, we think of it as lyig in the future. For example,
in the verses that describe the account human beings will give to
Allah in the Hereafter, this is related as an event that is long over:
And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who
are in the Earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth. Then it is
blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting! And the Earth
shineth with the light of her Lord, and the Book is set up, and the
prophets and the witnesses are brought, and it is judged between them
with truth, and they are not wronged . . . And those who do not
believe are driven unto Hell in troops . . . And those who keep their
duty to their Lord are driven unto the Garden in troops . . . .(Surat
az-Zumar, 68-73)
Some other verses on this subject are:
And every soul came, along with it a driver and a witness.(Surat al-Qaf, 21)
And the heaven is cloven asunder, so that on that day it is
frail.(Surat al-Haqqa, 16)
And because they were patient and constant, He rewarded them with a
Garden and [garments of] silk. Reclining in the [Garden] on raised
thrones, they saw there neither the sun's [excessive heat] nor
excessive cold.(Surat al-Insan, 12-13)
And Hell is placed in full view for [all] to see.(Surat an-Naziat, 36)
But on this Day the believers laugh at the unbelievers.(Surat al-Mutaffifin, 34)
And the Sinful saw the fire and apprehended that they have to fall
therein: no means did they find to turn away therefrom.(Surat al-Kahf,
53)
As you can see, occurrences that are going to take place after our
deaths (from our point of view) are related as already experienced and
past events in the Qur'an. Allah is not bound by the relative time
frame that we are confined in. Allah has willed these things in
timelessness: people have already performed them and all these events
have been lived through and ended. It is imparted in the verse below
that every event, be it big or small, is within the knowledge of Allah
and recorded in a book:
In whatever business thou may be, and whatever portion you may be
reciting from the Qur'an, and whatever deed you [mankind] may be
doing, We are witnesses thereof when you are deeply engrossed therein.
Nor is hidden from your Lord [so much as] the weight of an atom on the
Earth or in heaven. And not the least and not the greatest of these
things but are recorded in a clear record.(Surah Yunus, 61)
When a person who submits to Allah realizes that he is ill, he puts
all his trust in Allah knowing that this ailment is his fate. His
knowledge that Allah has created the illness as his destiny enables
him to realize that it will turn out for the good. And knowing that he
will get better if it is in his future to recover, he will be swift to
see a doctor, watch his diet and take some medicine. But he never
forgets that despite his going to a doctor, effecting the treatment
and taking his prescription, whether of not he will recover are all in
Allah's hands. He knows that all these events are in Allah's memory
and were prepared for him even before he was born.
In the Qur'an, Allah tells us that everything that happens to a person
is written in a book before it happens:
Nothing occurs, either in the Earth or in yourselves, without its
being in a Book before We make it happen. That is something easy for
Allah. That is so that you will not be grieved about the things that
pass you by or exult about the things that come to you. Allah does not
love any vain or boastful man.(Surat al-Hadid: 22-23)
The Important of Submitting to Fate
This fact—that the past and the future are already created and exist
and have happened in Allah's sight—reveals to us a very important
truth: Everyone is absolutely ruled by fate. And just as we cannot
alter our past, we cannot change our future. Like your past, your
future has already happened. Everything that will happen to you in the
future—what you will eat, when and where you will eat it, who you will
speak to, how much money you will make, the illnesses you will suffer
from, how, when and where you will die—all that is determined and
unalterable. These things already exist in Allah's sight and in His
memories. But this information is not present in your memory.
For this reason, anyone who is saddened and upset by things that have
happened to him and gets angry worrying about the future is worrying
in vain. Because the future that he fears and frets about has already
happened. No matter what anyone does, he cannot change this fact.
At this point, we must also state that we must avoid a wrong
understanding of fate. Some people believe that whatever lies in their
fate is preordained, that it will happen regardless, and there's
nothing they can do about it. But such an attitude leads to a
distorted idea of fate. It is true, everything that happens to us is
determined in our fate. Before anything happens to us, it has already
happened in Allah's sight and all the details are kept in Allah's
sight in a book entitled Lawh-i Mahfuz. But Allah gives to all of us
the impression that we can change things that happen and that we do
act according to our own choices.
For example, when a person feels thirsty, he does not wait to see if
it is in his fate to drink water. Rather, he simply gets up, takes a
glass of water and drinks it. Doing this, he feels that he is acting
according to his own will and desire. In reality, both the glass and
how much water he will drink are determined in his fate. But
throughout his life, he has the sense that everything he does is by
his own free will.
There is a difference between the person who submits to Allah and the
fate He has created for him and the person who does not. The one who
submits knows that everything he does is according to Allah's will; he
knows this, despite his sense that he is doing these things himself.
The ignorant individual mistakenly believes that he does everything
through his own power and his own intelligence.
A person who believes in fate never sinks into desperation in the face
of adversity. On the contrary, his trust in Allah only increases, and
he feels contentment in his submission to Him. Allah has determined
beforehand everything that happens to us; therefore, He has commanded
(Surat al-Hadid: 23) that we not be saddened by adversity and that we
not be unmindful of the blessings He gives us. . . . Allah's command
is a pre-ordained decree. (Surat al-Ahzab: 38)
A Journey in Time
Scientific research into the nature of time agrees with statements in
the Qur'an. One of these points of agreement is that time is a concept
formed by our perceptions. Given the fact that Allah gives us all our
perceptions, it is certainly possible—with His permission—for a person
to perceive forward and backward in time.
To understand this idea more easily, imagine time as a film strip. If
we imagine the film running backwards, the actors would appear travel
from their future into their past. Or we cut a frame or two from the
end to near the beginning of the picture, a character in the film
would experience a moment in the future. So, in our world, our
perception of time is no different. If He wills, Allah may reorder our
perceptions, and we could travel into the past or the future.
This very possibility is mentioned in many verses of the Qur'an: We
are told that a person chosen by Allah could live in a different
dimension. For example, the Qur'an tells us that Allah kept a
community of believers called the Companions of the Cave in a deep
sleep for more than three centuries. When He woke them up, they had no
idea how long they had slept and believed that only a very short
period of time had elapsed:
Then We draw [[a veil]] over their ears, for a number of years, in the
Cave, [so that they heard not]. Then We raised them up that We might
know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they
had tarried.(Surat al-Kahf, 11-12)
Such [being their state], we raised them up [from sleep], that they
might question each other. Said one of them, "How long have you stayed
[here].....?" They said, "We have stayed [perhaps] a day, or part of a
day." [At length,] they [all] said, "Allah [alone] knows best how long
you have stayed here....."(Surat al-Kahf, 19)
As we see from these verses, the time before the Companions of the
Cave fell asleep and the moment when they woke up were vastly
different.
Allah tells us of a similar situation. In verse 259 of Surat
al-Baqara, we hear of a man visiting a deserted city. Allah left this
man dead for a hundred years and later resurrected him. But the man
thought he has been there for a day or less. And within the space of
that century, the man's food did not spoil and his donkey still
remained in the same place. There are the relevant verses:
Or [take] the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruins
to its roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall Allah bring it [ever] to life,
after [this] its death?" but Allah caused him to die for a hundred
years, then raised him up [again]. He said: "How long did you tarry
[thus]?" He said: [Perhaps] a day or part of a day." He said: "Nay,
you have tarried thus a hundred years; but look at your food and your
drink; they show no signs of age; and look at your donkey: And that We
may make of you a sign unto the people, Look further at the bones, how
We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was
shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that Allah has power over all
things."(Surat al-Baqara, 259)

Lawh-i Mahfuz and the reality of timelessness: Our livesare composed of a single moment

A day with your Lord is equivalent to a thousand years in the way you
count.(Surat al-Hajj, 47)
What we call time is actually a way of comparing one moment with
another. For example, it we strike an object, it makes a certain
sound. If we strike the same object again a bit later, it will make a
similar sound. You probably think that there's an interval between the
first and the second sound—an interval called "time." However, when
you hear that second sound, the first one is only a record in your
brain and an item in your memory. By comparing the sound you recall
with the moment you hear it again, you form the concept of time.
Without making this comparison, you would have no concept of time.
In the same way, a person who enters a room and sees someone sitting
in an armchair in that room makes a comparison. The moments of seeing
the person in the armchair, opening the door and walking into the
center of the room are only data in his mind. The concept of time
arises when he compares the sight of person in the armchair with these
"previous" data.
The Formation of the Concept of Time
Today, it is scientifically accepted that time is a concept born of
our habit of arranging the changes and movements of objects in a
definite serial progression. Were it not for the human memory, the
brain could not make such interpretations, and the concept of time
would not arise. In his book The Possible and the Actual, Francois
Jacob, a Nobel Prize winner in Genetics, refers to the importance of
the concept of being invariably formed with reference to an organized
series:
Films played backwards make it possible for us to imagine a world in
which time flows backwards. A world in which milk separates itself
from the coffee and jumps out of the cup to reach the milk-pan; a
world in which light rays are emitted from the walls to be collected
in a trap (gravity center) instead of gushing out from a light source;
a world in which a stone slopes to the palm of a man by the
astonishing cooperation of innumerable drops of water which enable the
stone to jump out of water. Yet, in such a world in which time has
such opposite features, the processes of our brain and the way our
memory compiles information, would similarly be functioning backwards.
The same is true for the past and future and the world will appear to
us exactly as it currently appears.
Because our brains are accustomed to arranging things in a certain
series, we assume that the world operates as Jacob describes—and that
time always flows forward. However, this is a decision the brain
makes—"from inside," as it were—and is therefore totally relative.
Indeed, we can never know how time flows, or even if it flows at all.
This is because time is not an absolute, "outside" reality, but just a
subjective concept. You may, for example, think you have fallen
asleep in your armchair for merely a moment, when your watch tells you
that hours have passed.
The General Theory of Relativity
The idea that time is a concept was substantiated by the noted
physicist, Albert Einstein, in his book General Theory of Relativity.
Lincoln Barnett, in his book The Universe and Dr. Einstein, writes
these words:
The subjectivity of time is best explained in Einstein's own words.
"The experiences of an individual," he says, "appear to us arranged in
a series of events; in this series the single events which we remember
appear to be ordered according to the criterion of 'earlier' and
'later'. There exists, therefore, for the individual, an I-time, or
subjective time. This in itself is not measurable. I can, indeed,
associate numbers with the events, in such a way that a greater number
is associated with the later event than with an earlier one."
Einstein himself pointed out (as quoted in Barnett's book): "Space and
time are forms of intuition, which can no more be divorced from
consciousness than can our concepts of colour, shape, or size."
According to the General Theory of Relativity, time is not absolute;
apart from the series of events according to which we measure it, it
has no independent existence. Since time is based on perception, it
depends entirely on the perceiver and is therefore relative.
The speed at which time flows differs according to the references we
use to measure it, because there is no natural clock in the human body
to indicate precisely how fast time passes. As Lincoln Barnett wrote:
"Just as there is no such thing as colour without an eye to discern
it, so an instant or an hour or a day is nothing without an event to
mark it."
The Relativity of Time in the Qur'an
The relativity of time is plainly experienced in dreams. Although what
we see in our dreams seems to last for hours, in fact, it only lasts
for a few minutes, and even a few seconds.
The conclusion to which we are led by the findings of modern science
is that time is not an absolute fact as supposed by materialists, but
only a relative perception. What is most interesting is that this
fact, undiscovered until the 20th century by science, was revealed to
mankind in the Qur'an fourteen centuries ago. There are various
references in the Qur'an to the relativity of time.
It is possible to see in many verses of the Qur'an the scientifically
proven fact that time is a psychological perception dependent on
events, setting, and conditions. For instance, a person's entire life
is a very short time, as we are informed in the Qur'an:
On the Day when He will call you, you will answer His Call with words
of His Praise and Obedience, and you will think that you have stayed
in this world but a little while!(Surat al-Isra': 52)
And on the Day when He shall gather them together, it will seem to
them as if they had not tarried on Earth longer than an hour of a day:
they will recognize each other.(Surah Yunus: 45)
Some verses indicate that people perceive time differently and that
sometimes people can perceive a very short period as a very lengthy
one. The following conversation of people held during their judgment
in the hereafter is a good example of this:
He will say: "What number of years did you stay on Earth?" They will
say: "We stayed a day or part of a day, but ask those who keep
account." He will say: "Brief indeed was your sojourn, if you had only
known!"(Surat al-Mu'minun: 112-114)
In some other verses. Allah states that time may flow at different
paces in different settings:
. . . Truly, a day in the sight of your Lord is like a thousand years
of your reckoning.(Surat al-Hajj: 47)
The angels and the spirit ascend to Him in a day the measure of which
is like fifty thousand years.(Surat al-Ma'arij: 4)
He rules all affairs from the heavens to the Earth: in the end all
will ascend to Him in a single day, the measure of which is a thousand
years by your reckoning.(Surat as-Sajda: 5)
These verses are clear expressions of the relativity of time. That
this finding, which was only recently understood by scientists in the
20th century, was communicated to man 1,400 years ago in the Qur'an is
an indication of the revelation of the Qur'an by Allah, Who
encompasses the whole of time and space.
The Relativity of Time Explains the Reality of Fate
As we see from the account of the relativity of time and the verses
that refer to it, time is not a concrete concept, but one that varies
depending on perceptions. For example, a space of time conceived by us
as millions of years long is one moment in Allah's sight. A period of
50 thousand years for us is only a day for Gabriel and the angels.
This reality is very important for an understanding of the idea of
fate. Fate is the idea that Allah created every single event, past,
present, and future in "a single moment." This means that every event,
from the creation of the universe until doomsday, has already occurred
and ended in Allah's sight. A significant number of people cannot
grasp the reality of fate. They cannot understand how Allah can know
events that have not yet happened, or how past and future events have
already happened in Allah's sight. From our point of view, things that
have not happened are events which have not occurred. This is because
we live our lives in relation to the time that Allah has created, and
we could not know anything without the information in our memories.
Because we dwell in the testing place of this world, Allah has not
given us memories of the things we call "future" events. Consequently,
we cannot know what the future holds.
But Allah is not bound to time or space; it is He who has already
created all these things from nothing. For this reason, past, present
and future are all the same to Allah. From His point of view,
everything has already occurred; He does not need to wait to see the
result of an action. The beginning and the end of an event are both
experienced in His sight in a single moment. For example, Allah
already knew what kind of end awaited Pharaoh even before sending
Moses to him, even before Moses was born and even before Egypt became
a kingdom; and all these events including the end of Pharaoh were
experienced in a single moment in the sight of Allah. Besides, for
Allah there is no such thing as remembering the past; past and future
are always present to Allah; everything exists in the same moment.

The truth about the holocaust

While elaborating on our views about Jews and Judaism, we need to make
special emphasis on the cruel genocide of European Jews by the Nazis
during World War II.
The Policy of Cruelty Pursued by Nazis
Jewish inmates in Buchenwald, hungry, sick and traumatized under Nazi
persecution.Right after Nazis came to power in 1933, they started to
pursue a ruthless policy of isolating and then removing the factors in
the German society they found to be "harmful". The primary target of
Nazi mass executions was the disabled and people with genetic
disorders. Influenced by the thesis of "eugenics" developed by the
German biologist Ernst Haeckel, Nazis regarded these people as
parasites harmful to the gene structure of the German society and thus
employed the most ruthless methods against these miserable people. The
handicapped and those with genetic diseases were first rounded up in
"sterilisation camps", sterilised and then began to be killed by the
secret order of Hitler.
Meanwhile, Nazis were also subjecting the opponents of the regime to
inhumane oppression. Many people with leftist or liberal stance, a lot
of priests and clergymen were arrested only because of their ideas and
were forced to work to death under severe conditions in Dachau camp,
which was established at a location close to Munich.
Another group that was oppressed by the Nazis were the Jews in the
country. The Jewish nation, who were tried to be presented as "the
source of all evil on earth" and "parasites that harmed the German
blood" by the Nazi ideologists like Hitler and Rosenberg, were
subjected to an ever-increasing oppression. The stores owned by Jews
were boycotted, feelings of hatred and enmity were instilled in the
German people against Jews and the rights of Jews were restricted by
laws.
Murders and Torture in Concentration Camps
In the meantime, first the Jews in Germany and Austria, then the Jews
all over the Nazi occupied lands during the World War II were sent to
concentration camps. However, not only the Jews but also people from
different ethnical and religious identities such as gypsies, Slavs,
Russian captives were sent to Auschwitz, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka,
Belzec, Chelmno camps, most of which were located in Poland and were
forced to work under very hard conditions in German war industry.
However, the Nazi cruelty went far beyond the point of making people
work as slaves. Jews and other captives were transported to Auschwitz
and other concentration camps in locked wagons and during these long
travels, a lot of old and weak people lost their lives out of hunger,
thirst and crowd. People who arrived to the camps by trains were
treated as animals and those who showed a minor resistance were
executed before the very eyes of their families or children. In these
camps, many families disunited.
Jewish children in Auschwitz, 1944.The sadist Nazi officers showed no
mercy and pity to captives; for years, these captives led their lives
as slaves under the arbitrary Nazi insults, threats and torture. These
innocent people were used as guinea pigs. For instance, Mengele, the
notorious doctor of Auschwitz, is known to have carried out horrible
tests on adults and children chosen among the inmates to explore the
limits of human body. In bitter cold in winter, people soaked in icy
water were used to observe how many minutes a person could survive
before freezing. Mengele is known to have carried out anaesthesia-free
operations on inmates; he amputated their legs, arms or even stomachs
without anaesthesia. The cruelest experiments of Mengele were the ones
carried out on twin inmates. Mengele isolated all twins from other
inmates and conducted tests on them to observe the influence of
genetic factors. However, his methods were incredibly cruel. By
injecting their blood to one another, he traced the reactions of the
twins; in most cases one of the twins or in some cases both of them,
suffered severe pain and high fever. For instance, to see whether
eye-colour could change by genetic factors, he injected ink to their
eyes. These experiments resulted in unbearable pain and often in
blindness. He injected microbes of various diseases to little children
to measure their resistance to them. Many innocent children suffered
great pain and torture in the hands of this Nazi monster, became
disabled or lost their lives.
Millions of innocent people lost their lives in concentration camps
due to the systematic Nazi murders by means of gassing, shooting, and
torture of any kind. Among Jews were also gypsies, Slavs, Russians,
war captives, and anti-Nazi Germans.
The Nazi brutality explained above briefly is an undeniable and
explicit fact of history. Every person of conscience denounces Nazis
who are responsible for this cruelty.
However, there is another aspect of the issue that needs to be considered:
Those who were oppressed by the Nazi cruelty are not only the inmates
of concentration camps. They are not only Jews as well. The World War
II cost the lives of some 55 million people. Only the number of Soviet
citizens who lost their lives during the war was about 25 million.
Dozens of different nations and ethnical groups were subjected to the
torture and cruelty of the Nazis and their fascist allies. Therefore,
it would not be right to demand a special political compensation in
the name of a single nation due to the sufferings of the World War II.
The fact that Jews were oppressed by Nazis cannot be used to justify
and legitimise the cruelty inflicted on other nations (on
Palestinians, for instance) by some Jews.
We place particular stress on these two issues, because the State of
Israel and atheist Zionism, its official ideology, have been engaging
in a misleading propaganda about these two issues for the last 50
years. They instil in the minds of people that the sole nation that
was oppressed during the World War II was the Jews and that for this
reason, people must see the cruelty inflicted by Jews on Palestinians
as excusable.
Jews Who Oppose the Exploitation of the Holocaust
Millions of innocent people were slaughtered by the III. Reich. Jews
and many other victims from different nations were buried in mass
graves.In recent years, this fact about the Holocaust has been
expressed by Jews themselves. Esther Benbassa, the director of the
Contemporary Jewish History Department of Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes in France, wrote in Liberation on September 1, 2000 that "the
Jewish Holocaust has been turned into a religion" and added: "Putting
oneself in the status of a victim secures every Jew against criticisms
and thus also Israel against criticisms."
An important work that stresses the fact that the concept of the
Jewish Holocaust has become a political and economic means of
propaganda is, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation
of Jewish Suffering, by historian Norman G. Finkelstein, a Jewish
himself, from New York University. In his book published in 2000,
Finkelstein, whose grandmother was also an inmate in Nazi
concentration camps, explains that the concept of the Holocaust is
being utterly exploited both by Israel and the Western Jewish
organisations. As we know, international courts held in the wake of
the World War II convicted Nazis of the crimes committed against Jews
and charged them to pay huge amounts of compensation to them. For
decades, Germany has been paying this compensation, which is expressed
in billions of dollars, to Israel and other Jews living in different
countries. Not only Germany but also other European countries,
Switzerland for instance, and even the Eastern European countries that
failed to help Jews during the Nazi occupation were several times
charged with paying compensation to Jews oppressed by the Nazis.
Finkelstein, in his book, "The Holocaust Industry", states that these
huge sums of money taken from Germany and similar governments were
channelled to irreligious, Godless Zionist organisations rather than
the Jews who were subjected to oppression during the war.
For instance, in recent years the Jewish organisations demanded a new
compensation from Germany in return for the "service of Jews who were
forced to work as slave-workers in Nazi camps". The number of Jews who
were reported to take benefit from this payment was stated to be
135,000. However, relying on official statistics, Finkelstein declares
that the number of living Jews who were forced to work in Nazi camps
is not more than 14,000-18,000. The huge difference will be channelled
to the atheist Zionist organisations under the guise of
"compensation".(1)
Finkelstein also clearly expresses that in order to form and keep the
Holocaust industry alive, Jewish organisations and, in some cases,
some Jewish people commit numerous "frauds". According to the author:
"Articulating the key Holocaust dogmas, much of the literature on
Hitler's Final Solution is worthless as scholarship. Indeed, the field
of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense, if not sheer fraud."(2)
Conclusion
What has been related so far leads us to the following conclusion:
Jews were subjected to a horrible genocide during the World War II by
the Nazis. Millions of Jews -together with other people of different
nations- became the target of Nazi brutality. We denounce this
violence and want that neither Jews nor anyone from any other nation
ever receive such hostile and cruel treatment.
However, using the fact of the Holocaust with the purpose of
legitimising the crimes committed by atheist Zionism and the State of
Israel against humanity, or in the words of the Jewish author
Finkelstein, "exploiting" them, is rather wrong. History witnessed
numerous genocides or massacres carried out against many nations. We
must curse all of them and pay equal respect to the victims of all
these nations.
Footnotes:
1-Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, Verso Press, New
York, 2000. s. 126
2-Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, s. 55

All philosophies constructed on the basis of matter is collapsed

In the early 20th century, scientists discovered something new: that
matter was not as we had imagined it to be. Matter was not solid.
Matter had no colors. It gave off no smells, sounds or image. Matter
was simply energy. The chair you sit in, the table you lean on, the
house you live in, your dogs, the people around you, buildings, space,
stars—in short, the whole material world exists as a form of energy.
In the face of this unexpected discovery, all philosophies constructed
on the basis of matter therefore suffered a scientific collapse.
Science revealed the proof of something inside the human body but not
belonging to it, something that perceived the entire physical world,
but was not itself physical: the human soul.
The soul could not be explained in any way in terms of materialist
claims. Darwinism, which produced countless fictitious tales regarding
the imaginary evolution of species, remained silent in the face of the
existence of the soul. Because the soul was not matter, it was a
metaphysical concept. And metaphysics was something that materialists
were completely unable to accept, because metaphysics did away with
all the unconscious events, coincidences and random processes that
they had deified. Metaphysics submitted evidence of a conscious
creation, in other words, of the existence of Allah (God). That, in
any case, was why materialists had been denying the existence of the
soul ever since the days of Ancient Greece.
This struggle, which had persisted since Ancient Greece right up to
the present, now became meaningless because there is an entity that
makes a human being human, that lets you say, This is me. That, in
other words, is your soul: It exists, and it belongs to Allah. Science
definitively proved that the human soul observed all things as they
were presented to it and that there could be no reference to any
reality beyond these perceived images. To put it another way, it
openly declared that the only absolute Entity was Allah.
This proof by science is of importance in convincing minds that deify
materialist philosophy. In fact, though, all who possess reflection
and intellect are aware that they possess a sublime soul. Anyone who
can reason at all will understand that it is the soul that rejoices,
thinks, decides, judges, experiences joy and excitement, loves, shows
compassion, gets anxious, enjoys the taste of an apple, takes pleasure
from listening to music, builds planes, raises skyscrapers and
constructs laboratories in which it examines itself.
If human beings are possessed of souls, they cannot have been created
haphazardly. There is a purpose behind their presence in this world.
All people bear a soul that belongs to Allah and are being tested in
this lifetime, after which they will be held responsible for all their
thoughts and deeds. There is no randomness or aimlessness in life.
There are no chance events, as Darwinists maintain. Everything has
been created by the will of Allah to become part of the tests to which
we are subjected. In this life, which will end in death, the only
thing that will be left behind is the body. The soul, on the other
hand, will live for all eternity in the Hereafter, which is its true
abode.
These are great glad tidings for anyone who realizes he has a soul and
is able to appreciate its Creator. Darwinists, however, will continue
to refuse this reality with all their means and maintain that they do
not possess a soul. They will continue to refuse to accept that they
will one day enter the presence of Almighty Allah, Whose existence
they denied throughout the course of their lives. They will continue
to regard themselves as randomly formed collections of atoms and will
keep on dismissing the miraculous human consciousness that has
discovered DNA, investigated the structure of the atom and has been
amazed by the innermost workings of the cell.
The human soul is a terrible dilemma for Darwin and the supporters who
came after him. It is the basic evidence which they cannot explain,
which they cannot refute and cannot resolve. Allah has vanquished them
by providing proof, of a scientific kind that they cannot deny: the
insubstantiality of matter. In the face of this, any objections to the
soul's existence they may come up with are invalid and meaningless.
In His verses in the Qur'an, Allah tells us:
Who could be further astray than those who call on other things
besides Allah, which will not respond to them until the Day of
Resurrection and which are unaware of their prayers? When humanity is
gathered together, they will be their enemies and will reject their
worship. (Surat al-Ahqaf, 5-6)
Darwinists and materialists need to realize that the only absolute
Entity is Allah. Confronted by this truth, all hollow, empty
deceptions and superstitious faiths fall into an insuperable quandary.
Allah has enfolded all things with His Sublime Might. All things
belong to Him and are under His control. Denying creation and the
existence of the soul cannot alter these facts one iota.
The world that the soul perceives is merely an illusion, a phantom and
the sole absolute Entity Who rules the entire universe is Allah, Ruler
and Lord of the Earth and sky. Henceforth, those with unclouded minds
who understand this fact will look at the world from a different
perspective and realize that Allah is their only savior. In order to
attain salvation in the Hereafter, their true life, people need to
behave in the light of that understanding.