Comparative study of sleeping and dreaming in Quranic considerations and " Ma thanvi" by Mowlana

Sleeping and dreaming is a divine blessing which is always kept a secret and has made human mind busy. This phenomenon has been perplexing and surprising and at times this surprise has made us to know the unique God. Each group has taken this phenomenon into consideration from its own ideological point of view and formulated its own theories in answer to its questions. Thus from any point of view there is a different definition and the definition of dream is not the same for different religions, psychologists, philosophers and mystics andthey haven’t agreed pon the nature of dreaming and they might never do. Answering questions about the nature of dreaming is a very difficult thing. The phenomenon of dreaming has been used in the works of Iranian philosophers. The present research tries to compare the Quranic considerations of dream with the thoughts of Mowlana in the book “Mathnawi Ma’anavi”.