What Is Absolute Reality?
The Quran doesn’t say that this life is not real. It might have been mistranslated that way in certain translations. Quran does, however, deemphasize this life in comparison to the afterlife, when for example it compares this life to mere play and amusement in verse 29:64. That is a stylistic that the Quran uses to draw our attention and focus to the life of the hereafter.