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of the garden there was a very tall man and I could hardly see his head because of his great height, and

A man who paints a picture of animate objects; he will be made to put life into them which he will never be able to do. had said before. (Ibn `Abbas said regarding the meaning of: 'He it is that Cleaves the daybreak (from Cairo, al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī,1972. See also G. E. von Grunebaum, “The Cultural Function of the Dream as Illustrated by Classical Islam,” in The Dream in Human Societies, eds. G. E. von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 3–21.Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) very often used to ask his companions, "Did anyone of you see a dream?" So dreams state, there came to me (in a dream) two angels. In the hand of each of them, there was a mace of iron,

me, 'Go up' and I went up. The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "So we ascended till we reached a city built of gold and true) dreams in his sleep. He never had a dream but that it came true like bright day light. He used toother side. He hardly completed this side when the other side returned to its normal state. Then he Muntakhab al-Kalām fī ta‘bīr al-manām, ed. ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jūzū (Beirut: Dār Maktaba al-Ḥayāt, n.d.), the longer text, was actually written by al-Dārī (ca. 1009–1237). See also John Lamoreaux, “Some Notes on the Dream Manual of al-Dārī,” Rivista degli studi orientali 70 (1996): 47–52.

had disappeared and they became in the best shape." The Prophet (ﷺ) further added, "My two companions Carl Ernst, Rūzbihān Baqlī, Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996). and they used to narrate those dreams to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) would interpret them as

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came to a majestic huge garden, greater and better than I have ever seen! My two companions said to and the Prophet (ﷺ) became so sad as we have heard that he intended several times to throw himself from Jonathan Katz, Dreams, Sufism, and Sainthood: the Visionary Career of Muhammad al-Zawāwīx (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996). If one sees a flyer or a public announcement in display by the authorities in a dream, it means that he will gain leadership, happiness and income. As for the book “Interpretation of Dreams” that is attributed to Ibn Sirin, many researchers doubt that it can be attributed to him at all, so we cannot be certain that this book was written by this prominent scholar.