Interpretation of Dreams and Its Cosmological and Anthropological Foundations in Islamic Mysticism

In Islamic mysticism, there are many discussions about dreaming and interpreting it. According to the Muslim mystics, the world (macrocosm) and man (microcosm) have several levels and layers that are mutually matched. One of the degrees of the macrocosm is the absolute or major world of imagination, and its human counterpart is the conditional or minor world of imagination, and dreams are always related to these two worlds of imagination. Dream, if seen in the major world of imagination, is true without interpretation, while in the minor world of imagination, it can only be true by interpretation. Apart from the origin of the dream, other factors such as the time and place of dreaming, the viewer of the dream (dreamer) and his temperament, what is seen in the dream, and its characteristics are effective in the type of the dream, and must be considered for interpretation it.