The imagination

and when the sensibles pass away, their forms remain in the imagination [65], gleaming in the common sense, so that we see them manifest as though they existed in act.

that is inward is able to apprehend (*idrāk*) the sensible after its absence, yet still with the matter that discloses it — such as the common sense and the imagination and the rest.

40 — « It is of God's mercy toward His servants that He made each man's imagination (mukhaylah) veiled from the eyes of the other;

and of the things that are not in matter, some are abstracted in matter, their existence being in the imagination (wahm) with no existence for them from outside, and some are not abstracted from matter but have an existence in their own essence, outside the imagination.

And he made eighth a book in which he mentioned the canons of the expressions that work upon the imagination, and numbered all by which this art is completed, and divided it into its species and its kinds, and named it Fūrīṭīqā, that is, Poetry — so that this art might be completed according to these divisions.

[32] (1) This property — that is, the imagination's apprehending of matters without need of position — is what distinguishes the internal senses from the external.

And when the sensing subject senses a thing, there is imprinted in the imagination a likeness of that thing, or a tracing, which it observes in sleep and in waking with that sensible absent, whenever it wishes.

Rather, when the imagination apprehends them, it abstracts them from their positions, which were with them just before the abstraction, and there is found for them another position, namely the position of the part of the brain which is the locus of the imagination, inasmuch as it is in that part.

It is also called (imagination, *takhayyul*) or (estimation, *wahm*), according to the strength or the weakness of the conception, its soundness or its confusion with something else.

It is no secret that we are able to draw a single conception out of several conceptions: