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faces, places and
Allah takes back peo-
sounds never seen or
ple's selves when their
heard before that day. death arrives and those
Who is it, then, that who have not yet died,
shows these images in while they are asleep.
a dream while asleep? He keeps hold of those
whose death has been
One who reflects upon
decreed and sends the
such questions once
others back for a speci-
again sees the obvious
fied term. There are cer-
truth: it is Allah Who tainly Signs in that for
makes men sleep, people who reflect.
takes back their souls (Surat az-Zumar: 42)
while they are asleep,
sends them back to
them when they awake
and shows them their
dreams in sleep.
Someone who
knows that Allah
shows the dreams also
reflects upon the
dream's hidden pur-
poses and the reasons for their creation. In one's dream, one is as sure of
the people and events he experiences as when awake. We think that all of
them really exist, that the lives we dream are uninterrupted and continu-
ous. If somebody comes up to us and says, "You are having a dream now,
wake up", we would not believe him. Someone who realizes this, on the
other hand, thinks as follows: "Who can say that the life of this world is
not also a temporary and dream-like life? Just as I wake up from a dream,
one day I will also wake up from the life of this world and see totally dif-
ferent images, for instance, the images of the Hereafter…"