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How can a Muslim differentiate between a true vision (ru'ya) and a dream (hulm)?

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What a sleeper sees is divided into true visions, or from Satan, or from self-talk. Scholars have conventionally termed seeing something beloved in a dream as "ru'ya" (a vision), and something disliked as "hulm" (a dream).

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