ADNAN OKTAR: Look, a great many Muslims are hesitant over this subject. Allah forms matter as an image in the brain. It does exist on the outside, but human beings has no contact with that transparent, pitch-black matter on the outside. That is something Allah knows. What they actually see is an image Allah creates in their brains. That image forms with low-voltage electricity established by Allah. A whole world forms with very low-voltage electricity in a tiny piece of flesh. And people speak and fight. They tear cheques and bills up and hurl the pieces at one another. They fight in the courts and blood is shed. All this happens in the brain. People also fight and squabble in their dreams. They run away, are chased, go to hospital, cry, shout and weep. “What a nightmare that was!” they say and wake up from a dream. In the same way this world is also a dream place. When we die, we pass from this dream into another. We pass from dream to dream. In one verse, Allah even says in the verse, I take refuge in Allah from satan, “You will mount up stage by stage.” People pass from one dream to another. And indeed when they wake they say, as in the verse, “Who has raised us from our resting-place?” They are convinced that they have been asleep and have just woken up. “We were sleeping” they say. “We were sleeping and woken up. But where is this? Where are we? What has happened?” It never crosses their minds they have died. Only then when the Summoner calls out they all run to that side and enter the field of Hell. “Woe on us,” they say. “This is the Day of Judgment. We have died and been resurrected. Now we understand.” They say, “Woe on us.” That is also a verse from the Qur’an. They then say to Allah:“O Lord. Send us back. We now understand. We made a mistake. We were at fault, but we will be perfect now.” And Allah says, “even if they return they will continue with their immorality.” Because they imagine themselves to be very clever, at least in their own eyes. They imagine they will return in the knowledge of that image. But even if Allah does send them back, He will send them in a state of forgetfulness. Let us assume He does send them back. And even if they do remember, “What a terrible dream I just had,” they will say. And they will continue with their excesses, as before. Many irreligious people dream of going to Hell. But does it affect them? No. They dream they have died, and that does not affect them, either. It is the same thing. They just carry on from where they left off.

CİHAT GÜNDOĞDU: As you have said, in the hadeeth it is related: “People are asleep, and wake with death.” Insha’Allah.

ADNAN OKTAR: “People are asleep, and they wake with death.” They wake, and it is as if they are asleep, of course. This is very clear, it totally clarifies the issue. “People are asleep, and they wake with death.” That is the essence of what I am talking about. And our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) says it. In the same way it is illogical to cry over or be saddened by a dream, so it is illogical to cry over or be saddened by anything in this world.