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its intended and truthful Almighty’s command and
meanings, and this is took the initiative to
something that Abraham implement it without
did not do, that is, he did interpretation while the one
not interpret the form in his who was slaughtered was a
dream. ram that appeared in the
The reason behind this form of Abraham’s son in
lies in the fact that his dream.
Abraham had become It must be pointed out
accustomed to taking from here that the ram form of
the discontiguous world of the son was not a mere
imagination in which what coincidence; Rather, there
he took corresponds to is such a compatibility
reality without interpreting between the imagined form
what he takes, and this is in the presence of
the matter by which the imagination and the true
imaginary forms would meaning of this form,
correspond to that ones in which is manifested by
the world of sense without submission of Abraham
any difference and and Ismail to the Almighty
therefore, there is no need for God.
interpretation. (Kashani, So, What Abraham saw
1992: 103) was a divine test relating to
Accordingly, when he saw knowledge, i.e. the vision
in a dream that he was was a divine reason for
slaughtering his son, he Abraham to know that the
considered that as the slaughter form needs to be