The Allamah said in commentary: "‘And he formulated a likeness of Reality for me’: meaning the Holy Essence; ‘inside an imagination’: meaning within a witnessed form that points toward it. Just as a person is simulated by their shadow emanating from them inside the light, so too did the physical form manifest that by which the Essence is described of divine power."

And al-Makzun also said:

“And she presented her imagination to my eyes during sleep,

Admonishing my eyelids amidst the slumber.”

The Allamah said: "The imagination (al-khayāl) is the person that comes in a dream. What is intended by the imagination here are the forms that were imagined by the eyes in their physical shapes, serving as a reminder of the primordial response."

And he, Allah sanctified his secret, said:

“And had the dream-phantom of Lamya not visited me during estrangement,

My soul would neither have been guided to her, nor would it have journeyed.”

“And her subtle graces among the lovers cannot be counted,