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“What if imagination isn’t fantasy at all — but the bridge between the visible world and the unseen one? Al-Farabi believed reality itself speaks through images.”

In Episode 8 of the Al-Farabi series, Dr. Ebrahim Dinani and Dr. Esmail Mansouri Larijani unveil one of the most misunderstood yet powerful faculties of the human soul:

👉 Imagination (Khayāl) is not fantasy — it is a bridge between worlds.

According to Al-Farabi, reality is structured in multiple layers — and imagination is the barzakh (isthmus) that connects them.

🧠 Key ideas explored in this episode:

🌍 Two Worlds, One Human Being:

‘Ālam al-Khalq — the world of creation, sensed and material

‘Ālam al-Amr — the world of command, intelligible and immaterial
Imagination stands between them, translating each into the other.

🌉 Imagination as Barzakh:
Neither purely material nor purely intellectual — imagination is a liminal realm where meanings take form and forms gain meaning.

🔼 Ascending Function of Imagination:
It strips material objects of matter and preserves their pure forms — allowing the soul to rise from sense to intellect.

🔽 Descending Function of Imagination:
It gives form and image to abstract, formless truths — making the unseen seeable.

👼 Why Revelation Appears in Images:
Angels, visions, and dreams are not childish symbols — they are intelligible truths clothed in imaginal form.

🪞 “The World Is in Us — and We Are in the World”:
Farabi resolves the ancient debate between internal and external imagination by showing that the soul mirrors the cosmos while remaining embedded in it.

🚫 Why Pure Intellect Can’t Do This:
Intellect rejects the impossible as “nothing.”
Imagination dares to think the unthinkable, opening the door to creativity, prophecy, and art.

🧠 Knowing Is Becoming:
To know a higher reality, one must become similar to it (sinkhiyyat).
Knowledge is not accumulation — it is transformation.

“Imagination is not illusion — it is the language through which the unseen speaks to the seen.”

This episode changes how you understand dreams, symbols, art, revelation, and even creativity itself.
Farabi shows that without imagination, truth remains mute — and without intellect, imagination becomes chaos.

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