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Mystical Analysis of Dream… Y. Ali. & K.F. Mustafa (111
you will find me patient, “So We ransomed him
by the will of God”. for a great sacrifice”.
(Quran, 37: 102) (Quran, 37: 107)
Abraham believed that According to Ibn Arabi,
what he saw in a dream did Abraham was in the testing
not need an interpretation. circle of God Almighty,
That is why he hastened to and his vision needed to be
fulfill what came in his interpreted while he was
dream, sacrificing his son not aware of that, and
Ismail, and this explains therefore he did not
what the Almighty says in interpret his vision and
His Holy Book Addressing hasten to fulfill the
Abraham: Almighty’s command.
“You have fulfilled your (Ibn Arabi, 1946, Vol. 1:
dream. Thus do We 107-108)
reward the righteous ones”. Kashani, in his
(Quran, 37: 5) “explanation of Fusus al-
Hikam”, emphasizes what
This vision came on an Ibn Arabi mentioned in his
interpretation opposite to book “Fusus al-Hikam”,
what Abraham saw in his when he said that the dream
sleep, and it was not meant is the presence of the
to be slaughtered in the contiguous world of
sense; but rather this vision imagination, in which it
was about the great slaughter:
can be passed from the
forms represented in it to
