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الآخرة على صورة هذه النشأة^[46] لم يشعر بما أشرنا إليه، ولما كان الحكم يختلف عرفنا إن المزاج اختلف، فهٰذا الفرق بين حظ الحس والعقل.

(الدنيا منام واليقظة عند الموت)

فقال تعالى: ﴿ومن آياتِهِ مَنامُكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ والنَّهارِ﴾ [الروم: ٢٣]، ولم يذكر اليقظة وهي من جملة الآيات. فذكر المنام دون اليقظة في حال الدنيا، فدل على إن اليقظة لا تكون إلا عند الموت، وأن الإنسان نائم أبدا ما لم يمت. فذكر أنه في منام بالليل والنهار في يقظته ونومه، وفي الخبر: «الناس نيام، فإذا ماتوا انتبهوا».

أ لا ترى أنه لم يأت بالباء في قوله تعالى ﴿والنَّهارِ﴾، واكتفى بباء الليل ليحقق بهذه المشاركة أنه يريد المنام في حال اليقظة المعتادة؟ فحذفها مما يقوي الوجه الذي أبرزناه في هذه الآية. فالمنام هو ما يكون فيه النائم في حال نومه، فإذا استيقظ يقول رأيت كذا وكذا.

فدل إن الإنسان في منام ما دام في هذه النشأة في الدنيا إلى أن يموت. فلم يعتبر الحق اليقظة المعتادة عندنا في العموم، بل جعل الإنسان في منام في نومه ويقظته، كما أوردناه في الخبر النبوي من قوله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «الناس نيام، فإذا ماتوا انتبهوا»، فوصفهم بالنوم في الحياة الدنيا.

the Hereafter is in the form of this constitution,^[46] what we have indicated is not perceived. Since the effects differ, however, we know that the temperament differs. This is the distinction between what falls to sense perception and what falls to reason.

(This World as a Dream, and Awakening at Death)

He says, exalted is He: “Among His signs are your sleep by night and day” [al-Rum 30:23]. He does not mention wakefulness, although it too is among the signs. He mentions sleep without wakefulness in the worldly condition, indicating that awakening occurs only at death and that the human being is always asleep until he dies. He states that the human being is in a dream by night and day, in his waking and his sleep. The report says: “People are asleep; when they die, they awaken.”

Do you not see that He did not repeat the preposition bi- in His saying “and day,” but contented Himself with the bi- attached to “night”? Through this sharing, He confirms that He means dreaming in the state of customary wakefulness. Omitting it strengthens the interpretation we have brought forth from this verse. A dream is what the sleeper experiences while asleep; when he awakens, he says, “I saw such and such.”

This indicates that the human being is in a dream as long as he remains in this worldly constitution, until he dies. The Real does not take account of the ordinary wakefulness generally recognized among us. Rather, He places the human being in a dream during both his sleep and his waking, as we related in the prophetic report from his saying, may God bless him and grant him peace: “People are asleep; when they die, they awaken.” He thus describes them as asleep during worldly life.