—a likeness of itself. Many of these people, and others of their ilk, maintain that a man can be seen in two places at once: they claim he is observed standing on the plain of ʿArafāt while he is still in his own town, never having journeyed there. Those who do not know the reality are left bewildered.

For sound reason affirms that one and the same body cannot, at a single moment, exist in two different locations.

Trustworthy observers have witnessed such scenes with their very eyes and are certain of what they saw; hence the frequent disputes that arise between the two sides, as has happened more than once.

Each side is truthful: the first concerning what it actually saw and experienced, the second concerning what clear reason necessarily dictates.

Yet the figure that was seen was in fact a jinn that had assumed human form.

Whenever sensory perceptions are not accompanied by rational principles that uncover their realities, grave errors ensue.

What is witnessed externally belongs to a category wholly different from what a person merely imagines within himself; everyone knows this, and every rational person acknowledges it. People picture things inwardly—just as a sleeper pictures scenes in a dream—but such images exist only in the imagination, not in the external world.