Hadith 31

s, and the laughing and the crying, and other than that? ’
He said, ‘I am not able to say to you which of my senses realises that, or anything from it, and how can it realise, and it is as the status of the dead, neither hearing nor seeing? ’
I-asws said: ‘Tell me, when you wake up, don’t you remember which you saw in your dream, memorising it and your examining it after your waking up, upon your brother, not forgetting it (even) a little? ’ He said, ‘It is just as you-asws are saying, and sometimes I see the thing in my dream, then I don’t come to the evening until I see it in my wakefulness just as I had seen it in my dream’. I-asws said, ‘Tell me-asws, which of your senses decide the knowledge of that in your heart until you mention it after having woken up? ’ He said, ‘This is the matter the senses don’t enter into’. I-asws said: ‘Isn’t it befitting for you that you know where the senses are invalidated in this, that which witnessed those things in your dream and memorised these, is your heart in which Allah-azwj has Made the intellect to be, by which He-azwj Argues the servants with? ’
He said, ‘Surely, that which I saw in my dream isn’t anything. But rather, it is at the status of the mirage which a person sees it and looks at it, not doubting in it that it is indeed water. But, when he ends to its place, he does not find anything. Therefore, what I saw in my dream is with this status! ’
I-asws said: ‘How can you resemble the mirage with what you see in your dream from your eating the sweet and sour food, and what you see from the happiness and the grief? ’ He said, ‘Because the mirage, when you end up to its place, becomes nothing, and similar to that is what becomes what I see in my dream, when I take notice! ’
I-asws said: ‘Tell me-asws, if I-asws come to you with a matter and you find it’s pleasure in your dream, and your heart pulsates for that, don’t you know that the matter is upon what I-asws described to you? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. I-asws said: ‘Tell me-asws, have you ever dreamt of a woman at all until you fulfil your desires, whether you know her or not know her? ’ He said, ‘Yes, more than I can count’. I-asws said: ‘Didn’t you find the pleasure of that upon a measurement of your pleasure in your wakefulness, and you noticed that the desire had descended to the extent that there has come out from you, a measurement of what tends to come out from you during the wakefulness? This is a breaking of your argument regarding the mirage’. He said, ‘The dreamer does not see in his dream anything except what his senses had pointed upon him in his wakefulness’. I-asws said: ‘You have not increased upon the strength of my-asws words, and you claim that the heart understand the things and recognises them after t