Knowledge of the unseen
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
ʻilm al-ghayb · al-ikhbār bi-al-ghayb · knows the unseen · the secrets of the unseen · الاخبار بالغيب · علم الغيب
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Knowledge and announcement of the unseen, treated first as the fruit of intellectual overflow and then as one of the four classes of miracle requiring explanation.
So it comes about here, in waking, that possessors of strong souls attain knowledge of the unseen from the overflowing of the separate intellects, as we mentioned just now (2).
it has been established for us by continual experiences that when a man's thoughts are pure and far from the natural basenesses, it is not unlikely that he behold in his sleep matters that do not differ from the waking state.
the third aspect, the announcing of the unseen;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The doctrine that knowledge of the hidden belongs to God alone, used as a premise in the classificatory rule and as the ground of a sustained attack on diviners.
And likewise everyone who believes that none knows the unseen but God judges without hesitation that man does not know the unseen — neither the scholar, nor the Companion, nor the Prophet
And on this same pattern is everyone who claims knowledge of the unseen, such as the charlatans, the diviners, the astrologers, the mind-readers and others.
tomorrow, or the day after, a steady rain will fall — which will be a relief if it comes on freely and pours down And he makes the ignorant of the quarter fancy that he remains — an interpreter of the secrets of the unseen Yet had they asked him about what is above his own breast — he would have brought out a lie, or else fallen dumb and mumbled As though a cloud had covered them all over with err …