Ma`rifat Falsafi

Various attempts have been made to explain near-death experiences (NDEs), which have recently gained widespread popularity. This article is organized in a descriptive-analytical manner in order to explore the nature and nature of near-death experiences, based on Islamic philosophy, and places them in the scale of dream experience. The research shows that, according to the ontology and anthropology of Islamic philosophy, there are also 12 common features between dreams and NDEs - such as the soul's reduced attention to the body, the soul's return to the body, the inactivity of the external bodily senses and the activity of the inner senses and imagination, the existence of the experienced thing dependent on the soul in some cases and independent in other cases, being conscious, not needing to perform specific actions, the influence of the individual's pre-existing knowledge on the experience, and being unique - these two phenomena are of the same genus and near-death experiences are in fact quasi-dream experiences and share the same judgments as true and false, real and unreal.