Taʾwīl

تأويلtaʾwīl

General Technical Meaning

The outcome or realization in waking life to which a dream vision points.

Reader note. Here taʾwīl means the waking realization to which a dream points, not the hermeneutical interpretation of an expression.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In this dream-theory passage, taʾwīl names the originating cause or waking outcome to which a dream points, and remains distinct from dream interpretation (taʿbīr).

Source: al-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān

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Canonical address: /glossary/tawil-dream/