The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 416
416. Essence of Islām II spiritual matters are personified in a dream and the matter is even more surprising in a vision when spiritual matters take on physical shape before our eyes. Very often in complete wakefulness one meets those souls who have passed away from this world, and they appear in their original bodies wearing the clothes of this world and they talk and the holy ones out of them convey news about the future, by God's command, and those news are fulfilled in fact. Often in complete wakefulness a sweet drink or some fruit which is very delicious comes to hand in a vision. This humble one has experience of all this. I have personal experience that some delicious food or fruit or sweet drink comes into view and is put into one's mouth by a hidden hand and one enjoys its delicious taste while one continues to talk to other people and one's senses continue to work. Not that it is an illusion or baseless fantasy. Instead Allāh, Whose station is: 180 بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمٌ. He demonstrates by way of example a kind of creation and birth in this very world. . This is testified to in every age by those who possess insight. Why should one wonder at the personified creation which will be seen in the hereafter when the scales of deeds would be beheld and the narrow bridge will be seen and many spiritual matters will take on physical forms? Is it beyond the power of Him Who has shown this system of personified creation in this world to those who possess insight to exhibit it in the hereafter also? These personifications have a relationship with the 180 He knows every kind of creation full well. '-Yā Sīn, 36:80 [Publisher]