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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books 180 Questions Enquiries About Islam Volume Two: Various issues What do ‘Spiritual Vision’ and ‘Mystical Intuition’ Mean? ============================================================= One of the sources of acquiring cognizance is spiritual vision and mystical intuition.

Primarily it is essential to define this source, which is unfamiliar to a great number of people, in order that on the one hand, the difference between this and the issue of revelation, inspiration and innate disposition becomes clear and the ignorant ones do not consider it to be a figment of imagination and on the other, the path of misuse that many have resorted to in connection with this topic and which has compelled many to look upon it with scepticism, is blocked.

The entities of the world of existence are fundamentally of two kinds: Entities that can be perceived by the senses; these entities are referred to as the World of Senses. Entities that are concealed from our senses and cannot be perceived by them; these are referred to as the World of Unseen. But at times it is possible that man acquires a new perception, enabling him to witness a portion of the World of Unseen (as per his capability).

In other words, the curtains are drawn aside and some of the realities of the World of Unseen are made manifest for him as clearly as man perceives things by his senses - rather, much clearer and in a manner which imparts much more certainty. This state is referred to as spiritual vision or mystical intuition. This is the same thing that the Qur’an mentions in verse 5 and 6 of Suratul Takathur: کَلاَّ لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ الْيَقِينِ. لَتَرَوُنَّ الْجَحِيمَمُ “Nay!

if you had known with a certain knowledge, You should most certainly have seen the hell!” In various Islamic sources, regarding both the believers and the offenders, it has been stated that at the time of death they come to acquire a spiritual vision as a result of which they are able witness the angels and the holy souls of Allah's awliya, whereas those around them lack the ability to perceive these things.

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