The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The world is sleep and death is wakefulness ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 207 من الجزء One

Then God Almighty said, “And among His signs is your sleep by night and day.” He did not mention wakefulness, and it is among a number of verses. So He mentioned sleep but not wakefulness in the state of this world, so it indicates that wakefulness does not occur except at the time of death, and that a person is always asleep unless he dies. So he mentioned that he is in a dream by night and day, in his wakefulness and sleep, and in his sleep. The news is that people are asleep, and when they die, they wake up .

Do you not see that he did not mention the “ba” in the Almighty’s saying “and the day,” and he was satisfied with the “ba” of the night, to verify with this contribution that he meant a dream in the usual state of wakefulness, so he deleted it, which strengthens the aspect that we highlighted in this verse, so a dream is what is. In it, the sleeper is in his state of sleep, and when he wakes up, he says, “I saw such-and-such,” which indicates that a person is in a


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