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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Islamic scholars' views of the ''truth of the matter''

Some Muslims suggest that the fact that we only have experience of the
illusion of matter in our minds is not compatible with Islam, and
maintain that religious scholars in the past rejected this fact. That
is not actually the case, however. On the contrary, what we are saying
here is in complete conformity with the verses of the Koran. It is
exceedingly important for a definite understanding of many verses and
subjects revealed in the Koran, such as heaven and hell, timelessness,
infinity, resurrection and the Hereafter.
Unquestionably, even if he is unaware of this subject, a person can
stilllive in complete faith. Hecan have faith, with all his heart and
feeling no doubt, in what God has revealed in the Koran. We must still
make it clear, however, that an awareness of this subject allows such
a person to deepen his faith and certainty. A number of Islamic
scholars of the past looked on the matter from that same point of
view. The only factors that prevented what they had to say from being
widely spread andknown were 1) the fact that the level of science when
they lived was unable to totally clarify the subject and 2) the
existence of trends that were apt to lead to its being misunderstood.
Explanations by Imam Rabbani
The most important ofthose Islamic scholars who explained the
true nature of matter was Imam Rabbani, who has been widely respected
in the Islamic world for hundreds of years and is seen as "the
greatest reformer of the 10th century according to theMuslim
calendar." In his book Letters, Imam Rabbani provides a detailed
commentary on this very subject. In one of his letters, Imam Rabbani
says that God created the entire universe at the level of perception:
… The Glorious God assigned an appearance from all appearances for
names from all names in the sphere of non-existence with his Perfect
Might. And He created it at the sphere of sensations and perceptions.
At the time He willed and in the wayHe willed … Even in the exterior
level, there is nothing permanent and existing other than the being
and attributes of Almighty God... 1
In another letter, Imam Rabbani once again stresses that all
that exists is created only at the level of senses and perceptions:
I have used the following sentence above, "God's creation isat the
level of senses andperceptions." 2
On close examination, Imam Rabbani is careful to emphasize that
the world we see, in other words all that exists, has been created on
the level of perception. Another of his statements on the subject is
as follows:
Nothing but God existson the outside… Perhapsall of Almighty God's
creation finds constancy on the level of perception… It only has
permanency thanks to God's artistry on that one level. In short, it
only has permanency and appearance on one level. It does not have
existence on one plane and appearance on another… 3
Explanations by Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi
The great Islamic scholar Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi also believed
that the only thing that has definitive existence is God, Who has
created the whole universe only on the perceptual level. He is known
as "The Greatest Master" (Shaykhal-Akbar) on account of the depth of
his knowledge, and in his work The Essence of Wisdom (Fusûs al-Hikam),
he reveals that the universe is but ashadow existence consisting of
what is manifested by God:
I say that you must know that apart from God, all that exists, or
everything in the universe, stands in the same relation to God as a
shadow to a man. That being the case, everything apart from God is but
His shadow… There is no doubt that the shadow exists in perception. 4
The Prophet Muhammad said that"people are asleep and wake up when
they die." This is to say that the objects seen in the world when
alive are similar to those seen when asleep while dreaming, meaning
that they exist in the imagination. 5
The Perversion of Philosophers
These explanations regarding the fact that the matter is illusion
are misunderstood by some people and likened to the views of some
ancient Greek philosophers or some other disbelieving philosophers.
Indeed, there have been philosophers who said matter is illusion, yet
these people went astray since they failed to grasp that this
illusionwas created by God. For instance, ancient Greek sophists said,
"Matter is aperception we have created ourselves." This view is
rationally and scientifically flawed, anddeparts from true religion.
As stressed fromthe very beginning, the truth is that matter is
created by God and doesexist, but we don't knowthe actual matter but
merely a version of it weperceive in our minds.
It is a grave error to confuse this false view of those
philosophers with the explanation given here by Islamic scholars about
the"nature of matter." In fact, Imam Rabbani mentions those
philosophers who depart from the truth when discussing the subject of
matter. He stresses that what he says is very different to their
twisted views. He says the following in his Letters:
When I refer to the world as "imaginary," I do not mean that it
is made and shaped by theimagination … Of course,what it really means
is that God has created the world on the perceptual level …
On the other hand, philosophers who are comprise a group of
lunatics actually talk about something else. What they mean is that
the world is the work of imagination and it is shaped by the
imagination. There is a great difference between the two. 6
Having a Grasp of the Truth of the Matter is Essential
As we have seen, the fact that we merely deal wih the version of
matter in our minds is a very important fact also stated by Islamic
scholars. Yet throughout history, this issue has never been accessible
to the masses; only a limited number of people knew about it. Inthis
century, this fact hasnow become explicable, thanks to the evidence
science has provided. The fact that we have noexperience of the actual
material world that exists outside our minds is, for the first time in
history, being clearly and comprehensibly explained. For this reason,
everyone must seriously consider the matter. Muslims in particular
must attach vital importance to it, because comprehendingthe true
facts about matter is important for attaining true faith in God.
Otherwise people will assume matter to be the absolute truth, which
will help the development of materialist philosophies that deny God or
perverted faiths.
Materialists tell the lie,"Matter is all that exists, and there
is no God". We, on the other hand, say, "The only absolute being is
God; matter is created by Him but we merely deal with its version in
our minds." Allpower belongs to God, Who creates matter at every
moment. That is the true meaning of "La Ilaha Illallah", the basis of
Islam, which means"there is no deity other than God". There is no
deity other than God. And in fact, there is nothing other than God.
There is only God and Hismanifestations. Everything we see around are
but His manifestations.
Having a grasp of the true facts about matter is important
because it will help people to comprehend this inner meaning. The fact
that having a grasp of this fact is an attribute peculiar to people of
profound faith and wisdom is stated in a verse:
God bears witness that there is no deity but Him, as do the angels and
the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no deity but Him,
the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Koran, 3:18)
1 - Imam Rabbani, Lettersof Rabbani, Vol II, 470. Letter, p. 517-518
2 - Imam Rabbani, Lettersof Rabbani, Vol II, 357. Letter, p. 163
3- Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, Vol II, 470. Letter, p. 519
4- Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam,p. 117-18
5- Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam,p. 220
6- Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, Vol II, 480. Letter, p. 543, 545

Truths that will change your life

SOMEONE CROSSING THE OCEAN IN A PLANE ACTUALLY DOES SO IN HIS MIND
Everyone lives inside his brain throughout his life, and can in no
way ever step out of it. Perceptions related to every illusion we see,
every sound we hear, every object we touch and everything we taste are
the perceptions that electrical signals form in our brain. We can
never make direct contact withthe original of any illusion we see, any
sound we hear or the fruit we taste outside our brains. Throughout our
lives, we watch perceptions formed in our brains.
For instance, someonewho travels in a plane, crossing over
oceans, actually travels between images formed in his brain. The image
and noise of the airport, the announcements made tothe passengers, the
noise of the engines, thesensation produced by a plane taxiing on a
runaway, clouds, the image of the city left behind, the oceans, the
sense of distance, the hardness of the seats, the texture of its
fabric.... All of these are perceived in the tiny visual center in the
brain.
The sense of distance formed in that center, which is only a few
inches in size, on the other hand, is a great miracle created by God.
Within such images created in such a small area, God also creates a
sense of distance, perceived as if one's destination were miles away.
Someone looking at the ocean from a plane window actually watches it
in his brain from the plane in his mind. The distance between the two,
on theother hand, is a perception God creates in the human being
wholives within his brain.
At this point, we encounter another important fact: The
consciousness that sees the ocean miles below, hears the noise of the
engine or feels the hardness of the seat does not consist of the cells
or nerves in the brain.
Who does perceive these sensations, then? The answer to this
question, which materialists cannot answer, is the soul God creates.
It is our soul thatexperiences all these sensations.
You must also have a better understanding of this glorious and
unprecedented artistry, this infinite wisdom in God's creation and
draw the appropriate conclusions from this miracle of creation.
Have they not reflected within themselves? God did not create the
heavens and the earth and everything betweenthem except with truth and
for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the meeting with their Lord.
(Koran, 30:8)
THERE IS MATTER OUTSIDE OF US, BUT WE CAN NEVER REACH ITS
ORIGINAL THROUGH OUR SENSES
If someone asks you how far away the TV set is when you are
watching the late-night news, you will most probably answer, "A
fewfeet." Yet, that answer is far from accurate. That isbecause the TV
set is not"a few feet" away from you at all, but is in the sensory
center in your brain. What you see is not the television out there but
an image formed in the visual center in your brain. Thesignal reaching
you by means of light from the external world is transformed into
electrical signals by your cells, and these signals reaching the brain
are perceived as an image.
This fact is a great miracle created by God. In a tiny space made
up of flesh, lipids and proteins, God creates a colorful, bright image
that gives a true sense ofdepth. This is an image of perfect quality
and sharpness that has no blurriness, darkness or shift. Furthermore,
in another tiny spot in that same brain, God creates high-quality,
multi-dimensional sound with no distortion that accompanies this image
perfectly and is totally synchronized with it.
It is a scientific fact that everyone actually lives in a small
room in his skull, in a tiny part of his brain. No one, no matter how
much he strives, can ever step outof that room in his brain.He can
never reach the original of the world that occurs in his brain.
This scientific fact is very important in the sense that it
indicates the glorious and unprecedented creation of God. From the
Prophet Adam on, God has created separate lives in the brains of all
the people that have ever appeared on Earth, showed colorful, bright
images providing a sense of distance in the brains of billions of
people and caused them to hear the loveliest songs, the roaring of a
waterfall, thunder or thebuzzing of a bee. More strikingly, God
created all such perceptions withsuch delicate harmony and perfection
that the majority of these people never realized that they actually
heard the sounds or watched the images in their brains. They always
assumed that they saw the actual things that existed in theoutside
world, talked to them or touched them.
Never forget this important truth:
We can never reach the original object. We can only experience
what we see in our brains.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION DARWINIST-MATERIALISTS CANNOT ANSWER:
Who Is It That Watches A Bright World, Hears BirdsSinging Or Smells A Rose?
Stimuli coming from the ears, eyes and nose reach the brain in
the form of electrical signals.Who is it in the brain that experiences
these electric signals as sound, smell and sensation? Inside the brain
there exists a consciousness that perceives all these without having
any need for eyes, ear or nose. To whom does thisconsciousness belong?
Darwinist-materialists, who believe that nothing exists except matter,
cannot answer these questions.
Never forget that it is in your power to destroythe basic claims
of Darwinist-materialist ideology.
The 21st century will be the century when all these facts will be
grasped and accepted.
EVERYONE LIVES HIS ENTIRE LIFE IN THE SMALL SPACE IN HIS BRAIN
There is one fact everyone knows: The senses of sight, sound,
smell and taste are perceived in the brain. That is, we experience the
outside world inside us. We spend our entire lives in that small space
in our brains. We watch the outside world on thetelevision in our
brain. We smell the electrical signals entering our brains from the
external world in our sensory centers. We again perceive the
electrical signals entering our brains from the external world as
hardness. The electrical signals entering our brains are transformed
into soundsin the loudspeakers in our brains.
We experience all these sensations in that room of a few cubic
inches in our brains, andall through our lives we can never step out
of it. No individual, not someone traveling from one continent to
another, nor the first man who walked on the moon, nor a farmer whohas
never left his village in his life can go anywhere outside the small
room in his brain. We see oceans, woods, the sky, the Sun, the Moon,
flowers and fruits,which do exist in the external world, in this small
room in our brain. We smell them there andhear the sounds they produce
in that room, without ever making direct contact with their originals
outside … Inside the brain there is a consciousness perceiving all
these sensations. However, that conscious certainly does not belong to
the nerve cells or lipids making up the brain. This consciousness is
the soul God creates.
Every individual who reads this obvious fact must ponder on God,
theExalted, Who places the entire universe with all its colors in a
pitch-dark space of a few cubic inches in the brain, fear Him and take
refuge in Him.
THE TRUTH OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS THE DESTINY GOD SHOWS US
IN OUR BRAINS
The entire life of a human being is made upof the perceptions in
his brain revealed to him through his five senses. For instance, a
person walking on the street actually walks on the street inside his
brain. His feet, the unevenness of the pavement, the sloping road, the
discomfort his shoes cause him, the height of the curbstones, the
windand all the cars passing by are seen and sensed in the brain.
A person who rubs hiseye because of an irritating dust particle
init will grasp this reality. When he rubs his eye, hesees the image
of the road, trees and cars moving up and down. This is similar to the
shifting of images on thetelevision. That system also exists in the
brain. In this sense, a person is similar to someone watching
television. In the same way that he watches television programs, he
also watches what is provided for him, through his senses, in
hisbrain.
This being the case, who is it that sees these images in his
brain or feels the cold wind on his face? God informs us that it is
the SOUL that perceives these sensations. What we call"our life" is
actually what our Lord shows our soul in accordance with the destiny
He creates for us.
WHO IS IT THAT WATCHES THE IMAGE OF A HOUSE FORMED IN HIS BRAIN?
The question that most bothers Darwinist-materialists is; "Who is
it that SEES the three dimensional, bright image that is formed in the
brain?" As we know, everything we see is an image formed by electrical
signals reaching our brains. Stimuli entering from the eye reach the
visual center in the brain, and the brain forms a three dimensional,
colorful image conveying a flawless sense of dimension.
Books on biology, physiology and biochemistry give a detailed
account of how this image is formed in the brain. However, you will be
unable to find the most important fact about this issue anywhere: The
image is formed in the brain. But,who is it that watches the image
formed there?An image without an audience is of no use. So, where is
this audience located in the body? No one has so far encountered a
being in the brain that watches this image.
The one who watchesthe image in the brain is not a being made up
of flesh and bone. It is rather man's consciousness, that is, his
soul. Because they donot want to accept the existence of the soul,
Darwinist-materialists always avoid this question. Once the issue is
raised, they strive to silence the speaker in a panic. You can try
askinga Darwinist-materialist that question yourself!
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT?
If someone asks you how far away a friend ofyours is from you as
you chat to him, you will most probably answer,"A few feet." Yet, that
is not an accurate answer. Your friend is not a few feet away at all;
he is in the visual center in your brain. The direction from which you
hear his sound and his three-dimensional image conveying a perfect
sense of depth makes you think that he is a few feet away from you.
This sensation is so strong that proving otherwise demands a
lotof explanation, as is the case right now. However, what we are
discussing here is not a philosophy or a system of thought. The fact
that what we call "the material world" is created in the sensory
centers in our brain is also verified by science today.
The TV set which you think exists in the cornerof your room, the
music you hear, the roses you smell, your friends you enjoy being
with, the ice-cream that tastes so good, in brief, everything in the
outside world an image formed in your brain.
NO LEAF FALLS WITHOUT HIS KNOWING IT
God knows;
That you are reading these lines right now,
What crosses your mind while you read these lines,
What you will be doing in a moment,
Everything you will dountil the end of your life,
Everything you assume you have witnessed alone.
In some sections of society, we observe the prevalence of a
distortedunderstanding of destiny. This distorted concept of fate
holds thesuperstitious belief that God has determined a"destiny" for
everyone, but that these destinies can sometimes be changed by people.
For instance, if someone comes back from the brink of death people
make superstitious statements like "He cheated fate." Yet, nobody is
able to change his destiny. The reason the person who comes back from
death'sdoor does not die is because he is destined not to do so at
that particular time. It is also the destiny of those people who
deceive themselves by saying "I cheated fate" to say so and maintain
such an erroneous mindset.
All events, whether we witness them or not, occur under God's
knowledge and control. Destiny is the eternal knowledge of God, and
for Him, Who knows time like a single moment and Who rules all time
and space, everything is determined and done with in destiny.
The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them
but Him. He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls
without His knowing it. There is no seed in the darkness of the earth,
and nothing moist or dry which is notin a Clear Book. (Koran, 6:59)
THE MAGNIFICENT SECRET IN THE BRAIN
A region of a few cubic centimetres in the cerebral cortex is similar
to a television screen collecting the stimuli coming from the optic
nerves. And we, or rather our minds, watch the colours, various
lightcombinations or the beautiful wing of a butterfly within our
pitch-dark skulls on the black cerebral cortex. This is similar to
watching something on a television screen. We see our entire world on
this screen in our brains.
Who knows what the originals of the objects we see are like? For
instance, does the original of the butterfly we see on the screen in
our brains, possess the same colours as the reds,blues and yellows we
perceive? Or are these only the colours of the image we see in our
brains? We can never know the answers to these questions. Our soulthat
watches these images in the brain can never step out of the brain and
see the originals of these images. Consequently, the soul can never
know whether the things it sees are the same as their originals.
This is such a great miracle that the majorityof people fail to grasp
this fact, and those who do feign ignorance of it. From the moment
they are born, God makes people watch a screen intheir brains, makes
every soul live inside a skull, a narrow, small and compact space.
However, the images God makes people perceive are so magnificent,
detailed and identical to their originals that they do not even notice
where they really are. When watching copy images intheir brains, and
living within their skulls, people assume they are sailing by boat,
flying in the sky in a jet, or covering thousands of miles.
Furthermore, no matter how often they may be told, they still cannot
conceive that they are, in reality, livingin their skulls. This is
oneof the greatest miracles a person can ever come across in this
world. You will see that pondering deeply over this miracle will open
new horizons for you.
THE GREATEST FEAR OF THOSE WHO ARE SWEPT AWAY BY MATERIAL GREED…
Think for a moment about those people who are swept away by material
greed: What do they value most? A fine house, luxurious things,
ostentatious jewellery, the latest model car, big bank accounts, a
yacht ...For this reason, such people are terrified of the fact that
they are observing all the things they possess on a screen in their
brains, and that they will never actually possess the originals of
these things.
However, this is a fact confirmed by the scientific advances in
the21st century. People live in a world of facsimiles composed in
their brains, and cannot possibly have any relationship with any
external world. Sound, light and smell cannot enter the skull; what
enters is only electrical impulses coming from these material things.
This is the situation of someone, as in the example above, who gives
money for the magnificent villa shown in the background. While he
thinks that he is buying the villa and counting out the money,he is
really buying an impression formed in hisbrain, and is not giving
actual money to the person in front of him, only an image of money.The
person receiving themoney is really receivingan impression. In other
words, there is a"transaction of impressions".
THE WEALTHIEST MAN IN THE WORLD ACTUALLY POSSESSES NOT WORLDLY GOODS
BUT THE IMAGES OFTHESE POSSESSIONS FORMED IN HIS BRAIN...
Have you ever thought that you can never possess the originals of the
possessions you think you own? This is a scientific fact that appears
even in biology and physiology textbooks.
Let's assume that you have a car. You actually watch this car on a
screen in your brain. When you hold the steering-wheel or drive down
the highway, you are actually watching these actions on the screen in
your brain. Light rays from the steering-wheel, the indicators,
rear-view mirror and all the other components of the car are
transformed into electrical signals in your eye and conveyed to the
visual centre of the brainvia the nerves. This way, an image of a car,
identical to its original, is formed in your brain. But you must be
cautious! YOU SEE AN IMAGE IDENTICAL TO THE ORIGINAL, YET WHICH IS NOT
THE ORIGINAL.
Even if you wished you could never see the original of that car. That
is because, no matter what you do, the image of the car will always
form in the visual centre in your brain. No matter what you do, you
can never see even a single point outside the image that is formed in
the visual centre in your brain. For this reason, what you possess is
actually not the car itself,but a copy.
In the same manner, youcan only have copies of your clothes in your
wardrobe, the house in which you live, your furniture and all the
fortune you think you own, in your brain. Consequently, even the
wealthiest man in the world does not possess the greatest fortune in
the world at all, but copies of that fortune in his brain.
THE OWNERS OF THE FACTORIES, YACHTS AND LANDS THAT ARE ONLY IMAGES IN
THE BRAIN FEEL DISTRESSED FOR NO REASON
The majority of people value their houses, factories, yachts, lands,
jewellery, bank accountsand antiques very much. They devote all their
lives to attaining these material goods, and work day and night to
that end. Their greatest fear is of losing these things accumulated
overthe years with such difficulty. Never pondering the real meaning
of these material goods, however, they are greatly misled.
That is because they can never encounter the originals of these
possessions they strive to preserve with such ambition.
They can never live in their actual houses, sail on their actual
yachts and can never wear their actual jewellery. They can only watch
the electrical signals from these objects on the screen in their
brains. What they watch are theone-to-one copies of their possessions.
This great fact renders all those ambitions and concerns meaningless,
and humiliates those who boast about what they watch on the screen in
their brains. However, when death comes upon them it will be too late
for those who spend their lives ongaining worldly benefitsand those
who yearn forthe worldly life and forget the hereafter. OurLord
informs us of this fact with the verse "If only death had really been
the end! My wealthhas been of no use to me. My power has vanished."
(Qur'an, 69:27-29)
HUMANITY UNDERSTANDS THIS GREAT FACT NOW
When you sit by the ocean and watch the sea, the breathtaking scenery
actually forms inyour brain. That is, you do not see the actual ocean
but a copy formedin your brain. The nerves, as with an electrical
cable, convey the light rays from the outside to the visual centre in
the brain. The scenery, on the other hand, forms in this tiny centre.
Yet, there exists not a single light, colour or movement in the visual
centre, because the skull is completely insulated from light. Despite
this fact, on this tiny and pitch-dark region, we watch a highly
detailed, coloured, three-dimensional external world with a quality
better than any image produced by high-tech equipment.
The blue colour of the sea and the sky, the white appearance of
theclouds, the grey colour of the buildings in the distance are all
colours produced by the electrical signals in your brain. You can
never know the actual colours of the sky, clouds, the sea and
buildings. That is because you can neverbe in touch with their real
images. But the image in your brain is soperfect that it is almost
identical to the original. That is why, from the moment you are born,
you are deceived by assuming that what you see in the external
worldare the real images. The fact is, however, you are always
watching the image formed in your brain.
In that case, can you be sure that the real colour of the sea is blue?
Or, is it certain that everyone sees the clouds as white and the sky
blue, like you do? This is something you can never know, and that you
can never learn. That is because you can never step out of the
boundaries of your brain and see the actual sky, ocean, clouds and
buildings.
This is one of the most important facts in your life, and for
centuries there has been a deliberate effort to keepthat fact hidden.
The scientific developments of the 20th and 21st centuries have now
made it possible to reveal that fact. Never feign ignorance of this
fact, but ponder over it.
ARE YOU IN THE ROOM, OR IS THE ROOM INSIDE YOU?
A person who sits in his house, watching television or having dinner
with his family, experiences a great miracle, even though he is
unaware of it. That miracle is the fact that the image of four walls
surrounding a person sitting in a room is, in reality, within the
brain of that person.
That being the case, are you in the room, or is the room inside you?
The majority of people are unaware of this great truth; they assume
themselves to be sitting in a room, watching television or chatting
with their family. Those who grasp this fact, on the other hand,
pretend not to understand this miracle since they fear it.Yet, this
great fact about which they plead ignorance is an undeniable,
confirmed one, also revealed by science. Stimuli reachingthe eye from
the four walls that make up the room, the pictures hanging on the
wall, thetelevision, the carpet on the floor, the coloured furniture
and the light on the ceiling are transformed into electrical currents
by theeye cells. These currents are then transmitted to the visual
centre in the brain, and the person watches the image of the house,
which he thinks he is in, in the tiny space in the rear part of his
brain.
At this point, an important question arises: What is it that sees
these coloured, vivid images, without the need for an eye, eye lens,
retina and iris in the pitch-dark skull?
It is the "soul".
The reason why a personassumes himself to be in a room is the
sharpness of the images he watches in his brain and their
identicalness to theoriginals. This is a miracle by itself.
EVERY ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN A STADIUM WATCHES A SEPARATE GAME
A person entering a stadium assumes that he will watch the same game
as thousands of other people in the stands. Yet, this is a
greatdelusion.
That is because, in the brain of each person in the stadium, there
exists a separate stadium, separate players, a separate playground, a
separate crowd, in brief,a separate image. Yet, everyone assumes that
there exists a single game being played in a single stadium and that
thousands of people are watching the same game. Furthermore,
theyassume that those who remain in their houses are watching the very
same game on their televisions.
Yet, the fact is that in everyone's brain, copies that are
indistinguishable from their originals are created. The number of
these copies is equal to the number of watchers.The people in the
stadium cannot see the image in the outer world, and neither can those
at home see the real image on the television screen. That is because
it is impossible for anyone to step outside the screen in their brain
and get in touch with the original image outside. The only thing these
people can see is their brain's interpretation of the information
reaching it. It is the soul that sees. It is, on the other hand, God,
the Lord of the entire universe, Who creates both the soul and the
images with one-to-one similarity to their originals. What is more,
God creates these copies one by one for each and every individual.
WHO IS IT THAT LISTENS TO A CONCERT IN THE DEEP SILENCE OF THE BRAIN?
The ear captures the sounds around us and delivers them to the middle
ear. The middle ear amplifies the sound vibrations and delivers them
to the inner ear. The inner ear transformsthese sound vibrations into
electric signals, and then transmits them to the brain. The hearing
process takes place in the hearing centre of the brain.
But, who is it that hears?
The hearing centre is completely insulated from sound. That is, no
matter what the level of noise coming from the outside, the inside of
thebrain is always silent. But, in this deep silence, we listen to our
favourite songs or the concerts of famous bands from the giant
loudspeakers placed in astadium.

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Akhirah · Preparation

This morning was a cold walk accross the park to work. I made sure
that I was prepared by putting on my big coat, woolly hat and gloves
before even leaving the house. So what?
Well, we are always reminded, either in the quran, ahadith or by
others, of the temporary nature of this life in the dunya, yet we
still remainignorant to prepare for when we have to leave this world.
The journey to work/ school etc. for us is only a short one yet we
prepare for whateverthe weather may be outdoors, but for the permanent
abode of the akhirah (hereafter) we choose to cast aside in our mind
and ignore the signs telling us to prepare?
I leave you to ponder over this…May Allah Almighty give us the ability
to draw some important lessons from above and act in order toprepare
for our eternal life in the hereafter, ameen.

Akhirah · Currency of Jannah

Every country has its particular financial currency. Pakistani rupees
cannot function inAmerica, where the currency is the dollar , and
whoever has more dollars will live that muchmore comfortably.
Likewise, the currency of Saudi Arabia is the riyal , and whoever has
more riyals will be that much richer than the one who does not.
The currency of the Hereafter is righteous deeds and no other currency
will benefit manafter his death . There willbe no foreign currency
exchange where he can change his money for good deeds like we do here
when traveling from country to country. The person who has more of
this currency of good deeds will be in that much more comfort than the
person who does not. Today we have been given time to amassthis
currency so that we may be in comfort in the Hereafter. It will be too
late in the grave.
Does man ever stop to reflect on the fact that heis getting old? The
answer is an emphatic nobecause man always considers himself young in
every circumstance. Hisyouth slips away and man becomes an empty shell
but he does not realize this. He still thinks himself young when the
Angel of Death comes for him.

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