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Mystical Analysis of Dream… Y. Ali. & K.F. Mustafa (107
Theoretical Foundations is stated in the the Quranic
of Research dictionaries, refers to what
1. Dream (Vision) is seen in a dream. (Ragheb
Dream in lexical meaning Isfahani, 1991: 374; Qureshi
is derived from the verb Bonabi, 1993, Vol. 3: 37)
see, and is good vision Mystically, Ibn Arabi had
comes from Allah and a called Ruya (glad tidings,
(bad) dream (hulm) from mubashirat) and this is
devil. Ruya and hulm is according to the prophetic
what the sleeper sees in his tradition, the prophet said:
sleeping; but ruya is often No remnants of prophecy
said about good things. remain today [in people's
(Ibn Manzur, 1994, Vol. lives] except glad tidings.
14: 145) When asked what glad
The interpretation of the tidings were, replied, “True
vision means that the dreams”. (Ibn Arabi, 1997,
interpreter passes from one Vol. 2: 376)
form to another, as if he In Ibn Arabi’s view, the
asked about water dream happens in the
interpretation, and says: presence of imagination
Life. In this case, he passes while the seer is sleeping,
from one thing to another. so sleeping is the passage
(Ibn Faris, 1983, Vol. 4: 208) to give the news about
Ruya technically has no things which are related to
difference with the lexical the dream.
one, vision in the Quranic So, there are two passages:
terminology, according to what The first is from the
