" For this reason each lower Presence is
the image and correspondence ( mithal), the reflection and
mirror of the next higher. Thus everything that exists in the
sensible world is a reflection, a typification ( mithal), of what
exists in the world of Spirits, and so on, up to the things which
are the first reflections of the Divine Essence itself.Everything that is manifested to the senses is therefore the form of an
ideal reality of the world of Mystery ( nana ghaybi), a face
( wajh ) among the faces of God, that is to say, of the divine
Names. To know this is to have the intuitive vision of mystic
meanings (kashf manawi); he to whom this knowledge is given
has received an infinite grace, says 'Abd al-Razzaq Kashani,
the commentator of the Fusus. Consequently, all the sciences of
Nature are based on the meaning of the typifications of the
world of Mystery. And this is one of the interpretations given
to the Prophetic maxim: "Men are asleep; at their death they
awaken. "

― Henry Corbin , Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi