He said, "Kanli."

"So we took seven..."

"And I saw him in a dream." "So I said to them, 'What did you do?'" "May God forgive you," he said. "So I said to him, 'What is that?'"

"He said, 'It is because I had a neighbor who was a scribe. He would write for me and I would write for him, and he would bring me closer to him. I would ask him, "What is this?"'"

"The one who writes books does not forget them. This is a book that he writes, and he expresses it by his action, for it has become a craft for him, and he is the scribe. It is called 'warraqa' (scribing), and it is the writing of books." Al-Kashshari said: "And he saw him, meaning he saw his likeness. In a dream, it is as if he sees the person himself."

"It is a vision of the likeness, and the intellect and the transmitted visions from dreams are of two types: one that is seen as it is, and then there is no need for interpretation."

"And some of it is a message from God, sent through the angel assigned to him, conveying meanings to the soul in the form of perceptible things. Thus, that image becomes a symbol of those meanings, just as sounds, letters, and written numbers are symbols of meanings. And these are what are attributed to interpretation." The poet said: "My grandfather, Abu al-Qasim, and my father, Abu al-Tahir, and my uncle, Abu al-Raja' bin al-Hajjam, may God be pleased with them, and he made them in the forms of the senses, perceptible things, like interpretation."

"And their interpretation is of perceptible things, even if they were abstract, they would be revealed as pure realities and meanings."

"And thus, the likeness is the beginning of the vision, and then the realities and meanings are revealed in wakefulness and sleep. Likewise, whoever has a share of the grace of God, peace be upon him, from the saints, has reached the end."

"In a dream is the source of sleep, and sleep, according to Sadid al-Din al-Kashshari, is the return of the natural instincts to the inner self in search of rest. Thus, the spiritual soul and its powers come to it for that purpose."

"And others said that sleep is a condition that befalls a person, and that the brain relaxes due to the moisture of the hot vapors rising from the stomach, where the external senses cease to function, and the body becomes still. This is because the vapors rise continuously from the stomach to the brain. If they encounter a weakness or a blockage, they settle upon it, and this is sleep. And the movement of the body is accompanied by a weakness and a drowsiness. And the senses of sight, hearing, and intellect are the heavy sleep, and death."

"This is what the scholar Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri said: 'Sleep does not overcome a person unless he is in a state of unconsciousness.'"

"So I said to him, 'This is for that likeness that leads to what the person is, and it is his likeness. And the vision is that he sees himself.'"

"And it is possible for him to bring it to mind at that time."

"And his soul is in a state of unconsciousness, and the vision is not from him, and the questioner said, 'May God forgive me.'"

"And the building is not for him, for if he dreams, his resurrection has come, and he sees his place, and he is being rewarded or punished, and the illusion and heedlessness are removed from him, and his soul continues to be in a state of bliss or torment, as God wills, and his Lord grants him favor and returns to him."

"So I said to him, 'The word "fa" is confirmed in some manuscripts and omitted in others, such as the easy and other versions.'"

"And the word "fa" is confirmed in the easy version and omitted in some complex manuscripts."

"This is also in the easy version, and it refers to what was mentioned about forgiveness, and the "ba" is causal, entering into the question."