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وأخطأت بعضا»؟

وكذٰلك قال في الرجل الذي رأى في النوم ضربت عنقه فوقع رأسه، فجعل الرأس يتدهده وهو يكلمه؛ فذكر له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن الشيطان يلعب به. فعلم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صورة ما رآه، وما قال له: «خيالك فاسد»، فإنه رأى حقا، ولكن أخطأ في التأويل؛ فأخبره صلى الله عليه وسلم بحقيقة ما رآه ذٰلك النائم.

وكذٰلك قوم فرعون يعرضون على النار في تلك الصور غدوة وعشية، ولا يدخلونها، فإنهم محبوسون في ذٰلك القرن وفي تلك الصورة؛ ويوم القيامة يدخلون أشد العذاب، وهو العذاب المحسوس لا المتخيل الذي كان لهم في حال موتهم بالعرض.

(إدراك الصور وحبس الإنسان بكسبه)

فيدرك بعين الخيال الصور الخيالية والصور المحسوسة معا، فيدرك المتخيل الذي هو الإنسان بعين خياله وقتا ما هو متخيل؛ كقوله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «مثلت لي الجنة في عرض هٰذا الحائط»، فأدرك ذٰلك بعين حسه.

وإنما قلنا بعين حسه، لأنه تقدم حين رأى الجنة ليأخذ قطفا منها، وتأخر حين رأى النار وهو في صلاته. ونحن نعرف أن عنده من القوة بحيث إنه لو أدرك ذٰلك بعين خياله لا بعين حسه، ما أثر في جسمه تقدما ولا تأخرا؛ فإنا نجد ذٰلك وما

and some of it wrong”?

So too he spoke concerning the man who saw in a dream that his neck was struck and his head fell, then rolled along as he spoke to it. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, told him that Satan was playing with him. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, knew the form of what he had seen. He did not tell him, “Your imagination is defective,” for the man truly saw it but erred in its interpretation. He, may God bless him and grant him peace, therefore told that sleeper the reality of what he had seen.

Likewise Pharaoh’s people are exposed to the Fire morning and evening in those forms, yet do not enter it, for they are confined in that horn and in that form. On the Day of Resurrection they enter the severest punishment. This is the punishment perceived by the senses, in contrast to the imagined punishment they experienced while dead through being exposed to it.

(The Perception of Forms and Human Beings Held by What They Have Earned)

Through the eye of imagination one perceives imaginal forms and sensible forms together. At times the one who imagines, namely the human being, perceives what is imagined through the eye of his imagination. Compare his saying, may God bless him and grant him peace, “The Garden was made to appear to me on the face of this wall.” In that case he perceived it through the eye of sense.

We say that it was through the eye of sense because when he saw the Garden he stepped forward to take a bunch of its fruit, and when he saw the Fire he stepped back, all while at prayer. We know that he had such strength that, had he perceived it with the eye of imagination rather than the eye of sense, it would not have made his body step forward or back. We ourselves experience this, even though we are