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Mystical Analysis of Dream… Y. Ali. & K.F. Mustafa (113

               interpreted        and       his          them prostrating themselves
               fulfillment  of  the  dream               before me”. (Quran, 12: 4)

               showed  the  perfection  of
               faith  and  submission  of                This  dream  is  a  true
               both  Abraham  and  his  son           dream  which  needs  to  be

               before Allah. The fulfillment          deciphered  and  interpreted
               of  his  vision  was  a  reason        to  get  into  its  origin  and
               for    emerging       a    new         truth.  If  we  look  at  this

               perfection  and  knowledge,            dream  we  can  notice  its
               which  is  the  knowledge  of          richness  of  symbols.  This
               interpretation     in    which         symbolism  is  represented

               slaughter  and  closeness  to          by  his  parents  who  are
                                                      apparent in the form of the
               the Almighty is the form of
               Abraham’s  true  Islam  with           sun  and  the  moon,  and  his

               ecstatic absorbtion in Allah.          brothers  in  the  form  of
               (Kashani, 1992: 104)                   eleven planets, to fall down
                                                      before the Prophet Joseph.
                   2.  Joseph (Yusuf) Dream              This  situation  of  the  all

               It  is  the  vision  of  the           in  prostration  explains  the
               prophet  Joseph,  which  is            high  position  station  of
               mentioned  in  the  Holy               Joseph.  This  prostration,

               Quran:                                 which  Ibn  Arabi  interprets
                  “When  Joseph  said  to             as     being      similar     to
                  his father, Father! I saw           prostrating to Adam, to the

                  eleven  planets,  and  the          Kaaba, which is apparently
                  sun  and  the  moon: I saw          belong  to  other  than  God;
                                                      but Ibn Arabi here believes
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