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The issue of dream is as old as the history of mankind, because everyone experiences dream and it somehow affects them. Dream, which is a kind of imagining while asleep, is as important as imagining while awake and striving to realize it. Furthermore, another aspect that makes dream important is the belief that dreams possess signs about the future. From this aspect, dream subjected to a plethora of studies throughout history and a literature on the interpretation of dream was producing. The argument that dream reflects the past history of the individuals has also became prominent by the introduction of psychoanalysis. This article surveys the issue of how dream was evaluating in the Islamic culture and geography. It describes the essence of dream, seeks answer to the question of how it emerged and investigates the issues of its narration, interpretation and the meaning of dreaming about Allah, the prophet or some others beings. Finally, it explains the value of dreams as a mean of knowledge in Islam.

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