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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)<br />

until we are woken up. Only then do we say "what I have just seen<br />

was a dream." So, how can we prove that what we see at any given<br />

moment is not a dream? We could be assuming that the moment in<br />

which we are living is real just because we haven't yet woken up. It<br />

is possible that we will discover this fact when we are woken up<br />

from this "waking dream" which takes longer than dreams we see<br />

everyday. We do not have any evidence that proves otherwise.<br />

Many <strong>Islamic</strong> scholars have also proclaimed that the life around<br />

us is only a dream, and that only when we are awakened from that<br />

dream with "a big awakening," will people be able to understand<br />

that they live in a dreamlike world. A great <strong>Islamic</strong> scholar,<br />

Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi, referred to as Sheikh Akbar (the greatest<br />

Sheikh) due to his superior knowledge, likens the world to our<br />

dreams by quoting a saying of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah<br />

bless him and grant him peace):<br />

The Prophet Muhammad [may Allah bless him and grant him<br />

peace] said that, "people are asleep and wake up when they die."<br />

This is to say that the objects seen in the world when alive are similar<br />

to those seen when asleep while dreaming... 5<br />

In a verse of the Qur'an, people are told to say on the Day of-<br />

Judgment when they are resurrected from the dead:<br />

They will say, "Alas for us! Who has raised us from our restingplace?<br />

This is what the All-Merciful promised us. The Messengers<br />

were telling the truth." (Surah Ya Sin: 52)<br />

As demonstrated in the verse, people wake up on the Day of<br />

Judgment as if waking from a dream. Like someone woken from the<br />

middle of a dream in deep sleep, such people will similarly ask who<br />

has woken them up. As Allah reveals in the verse, the world around<br />

us is like a dream and everybody will be woken up from this dream,<br />

and will begin to see images of the afterlife, which is the real life.<br />

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