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               everything      about    vision           But God saved you from
               interpretation  and  showed               that condition; He knows

               him  knowledge in the form                what  is  in  your  hearts.
               of  milk,  and  steadfastness             When      you     met     the
               in  religion  in  the  form  of           pagans' army, God made

               chains,  and  he  still  taught           them  appear  fewer  in
               him  the  embodied  truths                your     eyes  and       you
               until     he      knew       the          appear  fewer  in  their

               interpretation of all of that.            eyes  so that His miracle
               (Ibn Arabi, 1997, Vol. 2: 275)            of  granting  you  (an
                                                         incredible)  victory  could
                   5.  The  Badr  Battle                 easily  be  fulfilled.  To
                      Victory                            God      do    all    things
               This  vision  is  related  to  the        return”. (Quran, 8: 43-44)
               holy  prophet  Muhammed,

               which  comes  in  the  sura                  This  dream  is  a  true
               Anfal:                                 vision  which  doesn’t  need
                  “In  your  dream,  God              any  interpretation  as  it  is

                  showed      (the    pagans'         realized in the actual fact as
                  army)  as  being  only  a           it was seen in the dream.
                  few in number, for if He               According to what it was

                  had  showed  them  as  a            said  before,  dreams  are
                  great number, you would             related  to  the  world  of
                  have  lost  courage  and            imagination,  which  deals

                  would  have  started  to            only  with  sensory  images
                  quarrel among yourselves            descending  from  the  world
                  concerning  this  matter;           of  the  unseen,  so  that  they
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