ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...
ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...
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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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