Letters ( revised ) | THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LETTER | 402
(399-446)

Also, a young bee newly come into the world, flies a day’s distance when only a day old without losing its way, and through that drive of divine determining and inspiring impulse, returns to its hive.

Also, it happens frequently to everyone that while speaking of someone, the door opens and  totally unexpectedly  the same person  enters. There is even a saying  in Kurdish which goes: “Talk of the wolf and ready your gun, for it’s bound to appear.” That is to say, through a premonition, that dominical subtle faculty perceives the person’s  arrival  in  summary  fashion.  But  since  the  conscious  mind  does  not comprehend  it, it prompts  him  to  speak  of  it,  not  intentionally  but  involuntarily. Intuitive people sometimes say that someone is coming, almost miraculously. At one time I myself, even, was acutely sensitive in this way. I wanted to incorporate the condition  into  a principle,  but  was  unable  to  adapt  it and  couldn’t.  However,  in righteous people, and particularly the people of sainthood, premonition develops to a high degree, showing its effects wondrously.

Thus, ordinary people even may manifest a sort of sainthood by virtue of which in true dreams, they dream of things appertaining to the Unseen and the future like the saints.  Yes,  for  ordinary people,  in respect  of true dreams  sleep  may resemble  a degree of sainthood. So too, it is for everyone a splendid dominical cinema. However, those with good morals think good thoughts, and someone who has good thoughts dreams of good  things.  But since those with bad morals think bad thoughts,  they dream of bad things. Furthermore, for everyone, true dreams are windows in the Manifest World that look onto the World of the Unseen. For restricted, ephemeral human beings, they are also an arena of infinite proportions manifesting a sort of eternity, and a place for gazing on the past and the future as though they were the present.  They are also  a resting-place  for beings  with spirits,  crushed  as they are beneath the responsibilities  of life and who suffer great hardship.  It is for reasons similar to these that with verses like: “And We made your sleep for rest,”(78:9) the All-Wise Qur’an teaches about sleep (hakikat-i nevmiye), giving it importance.

 

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           Having experienced them numerous times, true dreams have become for me decisive   proofs   at  the  degree   of  absolute   certainty   (hakkalyakîn)   that  divine determining encompasses all things. Especially the last few years, these dreams have reached  such a degree that they have made me certain that the most insignificant events and unimportant dealings and even the most commonplace conversations I will have  the  following  day are  written  and  ordained  before  they  occur,  and  that  by dreaming of them the night before, I have read them not with my tongue but with my eyes.
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