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Knowing The Real
Nature Of Matter Is The End Of Materialism
The philosophy
of materialism is the worldview that is most threatened by the fact
that the material world is an impression shown to our spirits, and
that we cannot know whether or not anything exists outside our minds.
In order to understand this better, we must look at the general
definition of materialism. Materialism is defined in materialist
writings as:
Throughout his life, Lenin told his
followers that matter was absolute reality. Actually, he gave
his most impassioned speeches to impressions of people formed
in his brain and the followers from whom he took his strength
were also impressions in his brain. |
Materialism
accepts the eternity and endlessness of the world, that it is not
created by God and is infinite in time and space.37
In the 8th volume of
the Larousse Encyclopedia, materialist philosophy is defined as
follows:
Materialism is a doctrine
which does not accept the existence of any other substance than
matter. It is the opposite of idealism which says that the essence
and substance of reality is created by spirit.
As we can see in this brief definition,
materialist philosophy regards matter as the only absolute existent
and believes that, apart from matter, no thought or thing exists.
Materialist philosophy does not accept the existence of spirit but
regards human consciousness as a product of the activities of the
brain. (We considered the invalidity of this materialist claim in
the section entitled, "One of the Most Important Dilemmas of
Materialism: Human Consciousness"). One of the most important
implications of what is explained throughout this book is the fact
that materialist philosophy is completely invalid. This is due to
the fact that it is now very clear today that what we call matter
is an impression in our mind; it is impossible for us to demonstrate
that these impressions have any material referent outside our mind.
This is because it is impossible for us to come out of our minds
and come into contact with a material source of things. If we accept
this fact summarized in two sentences, neither matter nor materialism
remains. Even if we think that our perceptions have a material counterpart
outside our minds, seeing that we can never attain to this counterpart,
it is clearly unnecessary and pointless to construct a philosophy
on matter whose very existence is doubtful and to base a view of
life on it.
The basic reason why those who espouse
materialist philosophy are disturbed by this important secret underlying
matter and refuse to accept it even though it is very evident, is
that they understand that it will mean the end of their philosophy.
Throughout history every materialist has been disturbed by the description
of the nature of matter, even by the other materialists' reading
books telling about this fact, and they have expressed their misgivings.
For example, one of the leaders of the bloody Russian Revolution,
Vladimir I. Lenin, in his book written almost a century ago called
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, warned his followers
of this fact:
Once
you deny objective reality, given us in sensation, you have already
lost every weapon against fideism, for you have slipped into agnosticism
or subjectivism-and that is all that fideism requires. A single
claw ensnared, and the bird is lost. And our Machists have all
become ensnared in idealism, that is, in a diluted, subtle fideism;
they became ensnared from the moment they took "sensation"
not as an image of the external world but as a special "element".
It is nobody's sensation, nobody's mind, nobody's spirit, nobody's
will.38
These sentences show
how uncomfortable this fact made materialists; Lenin was very afraid
of it and wanted to erase it from his own mind and from the minds
of his comrades. But materialists today are in a much greater state
of discomfort than Lenin was because the invalidity of materialism
has, in the last 100 years, become more clearly and strongly established.
Considered in the past to be a philosophical speculation or a matter
of opinion, the unreality of matter has now been proven for the
first time in history in an irrefutable and scientifically based
manner. The science writer Lincoln Barnett says that even hinting
at this possibility makes materialist scientists anxious and fearful:
Along
with philosophers' reduction of all objective reality to a shadow-world
of perceptions, scientists have become aware of the alarming
limitations of man's senses.39
In Turkey and throughout
the whole world, this fear and anxiety can be seen very clearly
in every materialist who confronts this issue. For example, in Turkey,
materialists have suffered a serious set-back from the collapse
of the theory of evolution, which they supposed to be the basis
of their philosophy. Now they have begun to understand that they
have lost a more important support than Darwinism-matter itself.
For this reason they are now saying that, from their point of view,
this issue is a very serious danger which causes their cultural
fabric to be totally shredded.
In fact, this points to a promise revealed
to human beings by God in the Koran. Where truth is plain, false
ideas are bound to perish:
Say: "Truth has come and falsehood
has vanished. Falsehood is always bound to vanish." (The Koran,
17: 81)
Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood
and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away! Woe without
end for you for what you portray! (The Koran, 21: 18)
Materialism and
those who have espoused it throughout history use matter as a pretext
to rebel against God, who created them from nothing, gave them life
and created the universe for them to live in. Asking such superficial
and specious questions as "If matter exists, where is God in
it?", they deny the existence of God and exert much effort
to get others to deny Him. Today they see one of their most important
supports destroyed; the reality described here has ripped their
philosophy up from its roots and left no possibility for further
discussion. The matter on which they had based all their ideas,
their lives, their arrogance and their denial has slipped from their
hands in an instant.
Throughout history,
materialists have left a heritage of denial and methods of denial.
For example, many materialists today use the words of Lenin quoted
above and urge their associates not to listen to or read about this
reality. However, the fact that science has clearly explained the
nature of matter, together with the fact that it is so easy to use
technology such as the internet to diffuse this information throughout
the world, has brought their efforts to nothing. Individuals are
reading about this reality, learning about it and coming to understand
it. Those who have accepted materialism until recently as the most
valid worldview now are very surprised to learn the real truth about
matter and life in this world. This is an extraordinary trap that
God has set for the deniers. No matter how deniers throughout history
have set traps for true religion making material idols just to deny
God, God, in turn, has prepared an environment where their idols
will be taken out of their hands and where they themselves will
be caught in the traps they have set. God reveals how throughout
history He has responded to the traps set by deniers.
... they were plotting and God was
plotting, but God is the Best of Plotters. (The Koran, 8: 30)
By giving people the impression that
they are in contact with the source of matter, God has made materialists
fall into a trap and has humiliated them in a way that has not been
seen before. They have regarded as absolute being things composed
of illusion-their possessions and property, positions and titles,
the society in which they live, in fact, the whole world. And by
trusting in these things, they exalt themselves before God. In their
arrogance they rebel and go forward in their denials. While doing
this, their only strength lies in matter. But they have fallen into
such a lack of understanding that they never think that God encompasses
and surrounds them. In the Koran, God reveals the final condition
that deniers will reach as a result of their lack of understanding:
Or do they desire to dupe you? But
the duped ones are those who disbelieve. (The Koran, 52: 42)
Materialists have not yet realized
that they are moving step by step towards the greatest defeat in
their history. For example, when they have discovered that all images
are perceptions in the brain, they have not been able to take into
account that this will cause the foundation of their belief to collapse.
When a materialist scientist, at the end of his researches, discovers
that things are not really composed of material substance, as he
had believed, he has given a blow to materialist belief with his
own hands. In one verse, God reveals that deniers will unconsciously
fall into the trap that they themselves have set:
And likewise in every city We set
up its greatest wrongdoers to plot in it. They plot against themselves
alone, but they are not aware of it. (The Koran, 6: 123)
No doubt, the realization of this
fact is the most horrible thing that could happen to a materialist.
The fact that everything he owns is composed of illusion is, in
his own words, to be sentenced to a living death. Together with
this reality, only God and they are left. In this verse, God points
out the fact that everyone is totally alone in His presence.
Leave the person I created on his own
to Me alone. (The Koran, 74: 11)
This remarkable fact is also revealed
in many other verses:
You have come to Us all alone just
as We created you at first, leaving behind you everything We bestowed
on you... (The Koran, 6: 94)
Each of them will come to Him on the Day of Rising all alone. (The
Koran, 19: 95)
In another verse, God reveals
that deniers will be addressed with these words on the Last Day:
On the Day We gather them all together,
We will say to those who associated others with God, "Where
are the partner-gods, for whom you made such claims?" (The
Koran, 6: 22)
After this, deniers will
see the loss and destruction of all the things they regarded as
more important than God, things they thought existed in the world
such as possessions, children and all the things around them. God
reveals this truth in this verse:See how they lie against themselves
and how what they invented has forsaken them! (The Koran, 6: 24)
The 21st century is a turning point in
which this reality will be spread among all people and materialism
will be wiped off the face of the earth. Why people believed what
they believed in the past or held the opinions they held is not
important. What is important is that, after seeing the truth, they
must not resist it and not be too late to understand this truth
which will be completely understood at the time of death. We must
not forget that there is no escape from truth.
37- Materyalist Felsefe Sözlüğü
(Dictionary of Materialist Philosophy), Istanbul, Sosyal Yayınlar,
4. Edition, p. 326
38- V.I. Lenin, Materialism and Empiriocriticism,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970, p.334-335
39- Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein,
William Sloane Associate, New York, 1948, p. 84
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