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which are beyond the understanding of intellect in the same way as the
objects of intellect are beyond the ken of the faculty of discernment and the
objects of discernment are beyond the ken of sense. Moreover, just as the
man at the stage of discernment would reject and disregard the objects of
intellect were these to be presented to him, so some intellectuals reject and
disregard the objects of prophetic revelation. That is sheer ignorance. They
have no ground for their view except that this is a stage which they have not
reached and which for them does not exist; yet they suppose that it is non-
existent in itself. When a man blind from birth, who has not learned about
colors and shapes by listening to people‟s talk, is told about these things for
the first time, he does not understand them nor admit their existence.
Allah Most High however, has favored His creatures by giving them
something akin to the special faculty of prophecy, namely dreams. In the
dream-state a man apprehends what is to be in the future, which is something
of the unseen; he does so either explicitly or else clothed in a symbolic form
whose interpretation is disclosed.
Suppose a man has not experienced this himself, and suppose that he is
objects of intellect are beyond the ken of the faculty of discernment and the
objects of discernment are beyond the ken of sense. Moreover, just as the
man at the stage of discernment would reject and disregard the objects of
intellect were these to be presented to him, so some intellectuals reject and
disregard the objects of prophetic revelation. That is sheer ignorance. They
have no ground for their view except that this is a stage which they have not
reached and which for them does not exist; yet they suppose that it is non-
existent in itself. When a man blind from birth, who has not learned about
colors and shapes by listening to people‟s talk, is told about these things for
the first time, he does not understand them nor admit their existence.
Allah Most High however, has favored His creatures by giving them
something akin to the special faculty of prophecy, namely dreams. In the
dream-state a man apprehends what is to be in the future, which is something
of the unseen; he does so either explicitly or else clothed in a symbolic form
whose interpretation is disclosed.
Suppose a man has not experienced this himself, and suppose that he is