The Strategic Importance of Dreams and Visions in Islam: Eschatological and Epistemological Implications of True Dreams and Visions - A View from Isla

One of the signs of the last age, i.e., before the end of the worl, is the absence of knowledge (of Truth and, therefore of Islam). Or widespread ignorance of the subject of 'Dreams' and the important place which 'Dreams' occupy in Islam, as well as the widespread ignorance of the subject of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam, is yet another indication that the last age has arrived!The Sufi epistemology recognizes that comes from two sources - the first is the knowledge that is externally acquired, and the other is knowledge that is internally received. The Sufi epistemology, which was taught by our great teacher, Maulana Dr Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari (rahimahullah), at the Aleemiyah Institure of Islamic Studies in Karachi, Pakistan, is the epistemology of knowledge internally received, and we hasten to inform the gentle reader that this book is based on that epistemology