Don't you know that the mind has been endowed with reason...

Don't you know that the mind has been endowed with reason, by means of which Allah establishes His Hujjat?" "What I see in a dream said he, "is unsubstantial like a Surab' (mirage), which from a distance appears to be real water, but on approach is discovered to be only sand. "How do you make comparison, when in your dream you relish different tastes? I queried.

"Because, he replied, when I approached that 'Surab', I discovered only sand, and when I awoke I discovered nothing of that which I had seen in dream. "Well asked I, "if I give you an example of what you may have enjoyed in a dream, and which may have made you…