Two voices walk through ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī's al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt — his treatise on how the soul is built, and on dreams, prophecy, and magic — made for listeners with no background in Islamic philosophy.
Why a human being is the one creature not finished at birth — how the soul is built out of repeated acts, why we suffer from being a divided self, what every desire is secretly reaching for, and the five lives a soul can end up living.
The finale: why a dream can come true, how a soul reaches beyond the body, why there must be prophets and what a miracle really proves — and the unsettling discovery that a saint and a sorcerer climb the very same staircase, divided only by the way they face.
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