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Allah's Messenger says: Farabi began his theory
“A good vision is from by defining the vision’s
Allah and a bad dream mechanism in line with the
(hulm) is from satan”; prophetic tradition that the
(Majlisi, 1983, Vol. 58: 193) commencement of the
to give us a sign to Divine revelation to Allah's
distinguish between true Apostle was in the form of
dreams and the confused ones. good dreams which came
Abu Abdillah said: true like the breaking dawn.
“The believer's opinion Farabi and Ibn Sina
and vision at the end of regard that the imaginal
time are on seventy parts faculty plays a substantial
of prophecy”. (Ibid, role in realizing the true
Vol. 61: 177) dream. (Farabi, 2016: 63;
Ibn Sina, 2003: 378)
Philosophers and Mystics The mentioned faculty
had attached special significance can stimulate the forms
to vision and tried to give whether intellectual or
this matter a philosophical sensational and combine,
and Mystical analysis to separate and create forms
explore its origin and which the sleeper sees in
mechanism. This analytical his dreams.
work started with Farabi As for the Mystics, there
who was the forerunner in is a relationship between
putting the prophecy into a the ontological levels and
philosophical theory.
the degrees of existence of
humans, and according to it,
