57. One of our companions, from Ali Bin Al-Abbas, from Al-Hassan Bin Abdul Rahman, who has narrated: Abu Al-Hassan (asws) said: ‘The dreams did not exist in the past in the beginning of the creation, but rather they occurred later on’. I said, ‘And what is the reason with regards to that?’ He (asws) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Sent a Rasool (as) to the people of his (as) era. So he (as) called them to the worship of Allah (azwj) and to His (azwj) obedience’. They said, ‘If we were to do that, so what is in it for us, for by Allah (azwj), you (as) are no more wealthier than we are, nor is your (as) family stronger than ours’. He (as) said: ‘If you were all to obey me (as), Allah (azwj) will Make you to enter the Paradise, and if you were to disobey me (as), Allah (azwj) will Make you to enter the Fire’. So they said, ‘And what is the Paradise and the Fire?’ So he (as) described that for them. So they said, ‘When do we go to that?’ So he (as) said: ‘When you die’. So they said, ‘But we have seen our dead becoming bones and dust’. So they increased in their denial and contempt of it’. So Allah (azwj) Enabled them to experience dreams. So these came to them, and they got informed by what they saw, and what they had denied from that. So he (as) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Intended to Argue against you by this. This is how your spirits are. When you all die, and your bodies decay, your spirits will go toward Punishment until such time that the bodies are resurrected’.