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until that moment is a dream. But for some reason they are not sus-
picious of the nature of the life (what they call "real") that starts with
a "waking" image. However, the way we perceive images in "real
life" is exactly the same as the way we perceive our dreams. We see
both of them in the mind. We cannot understand they are images
until we are woken up. Only then do we say "what I have just seen
was a dream." So, how can we prove that what we see at any given
moment is not a dream? We could be assuming that the moment in
which we are living is real just because we haven't yet woken up. It
is possible that we will discover this fact when we are woken up
from this "waking dream" which takes longer than dreams we see
everyday. We do not have any evidence that proves otherwise.
Many Islamic scholars have also proclaimed that the life
around us is only a dream, and that only when we are awakened
from that dream with "a big awakening," will people be able to un-
derstand that they live in a dreamlike world. A great Islamic
scholar, Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi, referred to as Sheikh Akbar (The
greatest Sheikh) due to his superior knowledge, likens the world to
our dreams by quoting a saying of the Prophet Muhammad (saas):
The Prophet Muhammad [saas] said that, "people are asleep and wake
up when they die." This is to say that the objects seen in the world
when alive are similar to those seen when asleep while dreaming... 5
In a verse of the Qur'an, people are told to say on the Judgment
Day when they are resurrected from the dead:
They will say, "Alas for us! Who has raised us from our
sleeping-place? This is what the All-Merciful promised us.
The Messengers were telling the truth." (Surah Ya Sin: 52)
As demonstrated in the verse, people wake up on the Judgment
Day as if waking from a dream. Like someone woken from the mid-
dle of a dream in deep sleep, such people will similarly ask who has