But Dara saw neither the Prophet nor an ancient Greek philosopher. Learned men, too, could legitimize rulers through their appearances in dreams, like Aristotle, who materialized before the Abbasid caliph Mamun, as a rationale for the translation movement in Iraq. Here, too, Dara’s dream evoked a longer history of Muslim rulers who had visionary dreams and Muslim authors whose dreams legitimized their literary projects.ĭreams of the Prophet Muhammad abound, like the vision that famously cured the blind poet Busiri of his blindness and led him to compose his celebrated Arabic ode on the mantle of the Prophet, the Qasidat-ul-burda, still recited today in countless commemorations of the Prophet’s birth. The prince had witnessed special visions before, ones that involved his spiritual guide Miyan Mir. It was not a common sort of dream, because it was significant enough to be recorded. We do not know the date or precise year, but we know that it happened during or before 1066 AH (1655/6). At some point during his intense study of Indic thought, Dara Shukoh had a dream.
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