Ibn ʿArabī gave imagination a central place: it is the barzakh where meanings take form, the faculty by which prophets see angels and mystics behold God, and in a sense all of creation is God’s imagination. He distinguished it sharply from mere fantasy.
Khayāl
Imagination: in Ibn ʿArabī, a faculty and a world that unites spirit and body, through which God is seen in forms.
Also: Khayal, imagination