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Mystical Analysis of Dream… Y. Ali. & K.F. Mustafa (119

               appear  and  speak  in  the            and  actions,  in  order  to
               dream  to  make  the  sleeper          connect  with  the  heavenly

               learn  through  them  the              entities,  due  to  what  his
               interpretation and meanings            noble  soul  possesses  the
               of the dreams' forms.                  ability  to  connect  with

                  This  true  vision  of  the         them,  while  that  of  the
               prophet Muhammed happened              dreamer happens to him by
               in  according  with  his               virtue  of  nature;  because

               station, and therefore didn’t          the  sleeper  senses  fail  to
               need  an  interpretation  and          work naturally. (Ibn Arabi,
               realized in the actual fact as         2001, Vol. 1: 306)

               it had been seen.                         Ibn Arabi points to what
                  The  imaginal  faculty  of          may appear from that noble
               the  messenger,  did  not              soul who has the ability to

               interfere  in  the  vision;            connect  with  the  unseen
               because  his  noble  soul  has         world,      in     terms      of
               the  ability  to  connect  with        wondrous        deeds       and
               the  unseen  world  and                miracles  due  to  the  help

               heavenly bodies.                       received from the world of
                  Ibn  Arabi  refers  to  this        power,  which  is  denied
               matter  when  he  shows  the           only  by  the  veiled  ones

               difference     between       the       who  are  afflicted  by  the
               dreamer  and  the  possessor           hardness  of  heart  and  the
               of  the  revelation,  which  is        imperfect  mind,  giving  an

               that  the  possessor  of  the          example  of  that  honorable
               revelation  can  stop  his             and  luminous  soul  with
               senses  and  their  functions          what  appeared  from  the
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