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from sense or intellect, are genuine? They are true in your present state; but it
is possible that you will come to a state where your waking consciousness
has the same relationship to dreaming. Your waking consciousness would be
like dreaming! When you have entered this state, you will be sure that your
intellect is just empty imagination. It may be that this state is what the Sufis
claim to be their special “state” of ecstasy which occurs when they have
withdrawn into themselves and are absent from their senses. They witness
situations which do not even deal with the intellect. Perhaps that “state” is
death; for the Messenger of Allah, may Allah venerate and grant him peace,
says: “People are dreaming; when they die, they become awake”. So maybe
the life of this world is a dream compared with the hereafter and when a man
dies, things become different to him than what he knows now, when the words
are said to him: “We have taken off your covering, and your sight today is
sharp” (Koran 50: 21).
When these thoughts occurred to me and penetrated my being, I sought
some way of treating my unhealthy condition; but it was not easy. Such ideas
can only be dealt with by demonstration; but demonstration first requires
knowledge and since I have none, it is impossible to demonstrate. The
is possible that you will come to a state where your waking consciousness
has the same relationship to dreaming. Your waking consciousness would be
like dreaming! When you have entered this state, you will be sure that your
intellect is just empty imagination. It may be that this state is what the Sufis
claim to be their special “state” of ecstasy which occurs when they have
withdrawn into themselves and are absent from their senses. They witness
situations which do not even deal with the intellect. Perhaps that “state” is
death; for the Messenger of Allah, may Allah venerate and grant him peace,
says: “People are dreaming; when they die, they become awake”. So maybe
the life of this world is a dream compared with the hereafter and when a man
dies, things become different to him than what he knows now, when the words
are said to him: “We have taken off your covering, and your sight today is
sharp” (Koran 50: 21).
When these thoughts occurred to me and penetrated my being, I sought
some way of treating my unhealthy condition; but it was not easy. Such ideas
can only be dealt with by demonstration; but demonstration first requires
knowledge and since I have none, it is impossible to demonstrate. The