Life Supreme — Page 73
76. LIFE SUPREME 11. OUR ILLUSORY WORLD "It is a palace paved smooth with slabs of glass. " (23:75). Belief in life after death is a basic teaching of Islam. The Quran contains abundant passages on this subject. Denial of the Hereafter deviates a person from the Right Path: "And those who believe not in the Hereafter, are indeed deviating from that path. " (23:75). It is unfortunate that many people give insufficient care and attention to the preparation of their souls for the next life; and it is even more unfortunate that there are numerous people who do not believe in life after death at all. They are unable to conceive of any other kind of existence other than life on this planet. They are prepared to believe only in what is apparent to them through the aid of their physical senses sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. . God says in the Holy Quran that a believer is one who believes in the unseen (2:4). This is not a blind belief but one which is upheld by scriptural authority and confirmed by personal experience. . Those who hold the view that this universe and all things in it are composed of solid substance are under an illusion. We propose to show that this world and all that is in it is not really as it appears. . There is no such thing as matter in the understood sense of the word. . When this great truth is understood then the existence and nature of life after death is no longer a stumbling block. This world is a spiritual realm as is also the next one but their states are different. . ANALYSIS OF MATTER. A pilot flying above a beach sees below him a golden strip stretching along the coastline. Close inspection reveals that what he sees is a mass of tiny grains of sand. Microscopic inspection shows that each grain of sand is composed of innumerable atoms which are so small that a million times a million of them would not make a lump large enough to be seen by the human eye. Chemists had thought that the atom itself was the smallest particle but now it is known that it is composed of even smaller sub-atomic particles known as electrons, neutrons, and protons.