Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And We called to him, ‘O Ibrahim! You have truly verified the vision. Indeed, thus do We reward the doers of good.’”

This is the beginning of the lesson. “We called to him” — the subject pronoun refers to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). As mentioned previously, the call (nida') is made with a loud voice to the one being called, unlike intimate conversation (munajah), which is done with a low voice. There is no doubt that a loud voice is used for someone who is far away, and a low voice for someone who is near. His saying “that” is explanatory (tafsiriyah) because it follows a verb or a factor that includes the meaning of speech without its letters; it means “namely.”
That is, he did what necessitates believing this vision. He saw that he was slaughtering his son and resolved to do so, and he performed some of the actions that precede the slaughter. So Allah the Exalted made that a confirmation. A vision is what a person sees in his sleep, and it is divided into three categories:
A vision, a dream, and a product of the self-talk. As for the first, it is from Allah, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us of this . As for the second, it is from Satan. Most of what occurs in this category is something that is prohibited by the Shari'ah, or impossible by sense, or by reason. That is, Satan suggests to a person something that is prohibited in the Shari'ah, or impossible in reason, or impossible by sense. Most of the time, this also happens to confuse the opinion and disrupt his intellect. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told a man that he saw in a dream that he had slaughtered [someone] and that his head had run away. The man ran after his head, trying to catch it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said , because this is not reasonable: a person cuts off a head, the head runs away, and he runs after it to catch it and put it back on his neck. This is contrary to reason.
Sometimes Satan gives you an example of something that is impossible according to the Shari'ah. It is mentioned regarding 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (may Allah have mercy on him) that he saw a great light and heard from this light a voice saying, “I am your Lord.” He was told that prayer had been lifted from him. He said, “You have lied, but you are Satan.” How did he know he was a liar? Because he told him something that is impossible according to the Shari'ah, for the lifting of prayer can never happen, and it is the most important of the pillars of Islam, and revelation has ceased. So if a person sees in his sleep something that is impossible according to the Shari'ah, it is from Satan.
Likewise, the third category of dreams is what Satan shows a person in his sleep in order to make him sad. This is very common. The cure for this is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us of, that a person Do you understand? So, what Satan shows a sleeping person is either impossible by reason, or impossible by the Shari'ah, or intended to cause sadness and bring worry and grief to the seer, because Satan is eager to harm people. As for the third category of visions, it is what a person’s soul tells him while awake; because of the intensity of his soul’s attachment to it, he may see it in his sleep. This is also very common. The common people said that the visions of the people of Najd are the talk of their hearts. I am saying this in the colloquial language, meaning they see what their souls talk about. This is something that exists frequently. Some people told me that when they saw a vision, it would happen exactly as they saw it, either on the same day or a few days later. They say that this is a consistent pattern: we do not see a vision unless it happens exactly as we saw it. They do not see it as a metaphor, but they see it directly. This is something strange, to the point that some of them are harmed if they see something they dislike and then it happens as they saw it. This is rare, and the rare has no ruling. The conclusion is that a vision in sleep is divided into...