Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

In order to eradicate Islam, the enemies of Islam extract
unsound thoughts and depraved ideas from physical, chemical,
biological and astronomical events. By propounding these slanders
of theirs under the name of knowledge and scientific information
to the youth, they deceive Muslim children. However, scientific
progress and new discoveries expose Allah’s existence, His
oneness, His power and knowledge clearly, thus supporting Islam.
Lest we might be deceived by those who attack our îmân, we
should learn and understand scientific knowledge in high schools
and universities well. Real scientists see how childish, how
ignorant the words of the enemies of religion are.
It is notable that in none of the theories above has man been
said to have originated from monkeys; it has not even occured to
the minds of scientists.
Yes, it has been observed that there has been a process of
evolution in the living within the course of time, yet such changes
have taken place within each species. For example, the skeleton
of a man called Cro-Magnon has been found among new layers of
the fourth prehistoric age. As different from our skeletons as it is,
paleontologists have stated that it was one of the first human
beings. On the other hand, skeletons of monkeys called
anthropoid have been found which lived during the end of the
third age and which were unlike today’s monkeys.
Anthropologists state that they are monkeys. But fake scientists,
that is, atheists, say that the man called Cro-Magnon and the
monkey called Anthropoid are the fossils of man’s earliest
ancestors, or they are the fossils forming a transition between
man and monkey. Biologists observe the difference between man
and monkey only with respect to matter. However, the greatest
difference between man and animals is man’s soul. Men have
souls. The honour of humanity comes only from this soul. This
soul was given to Hadrat Adam first. Animals do not have this
soul. Materialists and philosophers, knowing nothing of this soul,
may suppose that man is close to the monkey. Even though the
figure and the construction of the earliest men were similar to the
monkey, man is man. For he has a soul. The monkey is an animal,
for it is deprived of a soul and of the superiorities on account of
the soul. As is seen, man and animal are quite different. There
can never be a transition between them; they cannot change into
one another. In fact, centuries ago it was written in Islamic books,
e.g., in the foreword to Ibni Haldûn Târîhi and on the twentyeighth
page of Ma’rifatnâma, that among the animals the monkey
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