I saw in what the dreamer sees

It covers its frightening tyranny with generous breaths that silence the capable tongues, and practices pagan rituals in religion, despite its tyranny — it does not refuse to find comfort in its internal solitude with charms and spells. This short story collection represents an important building block in the mural of Naguib Mahfouz's vision of life; in the story "People of Passion," Mahfouz presented the original human being with a blank page, and his behavior towards the world, and his dealings with it; in the story "My Fate and My Destiny," he expressed, with a strange and unique plot, the internal struggle within humans between good and evil, and the human dilemma in accepting himself, making his fate pain rather than comfort; as for the story "In What the Sleeper Sees," it consists of seventeen dreams, in which he addressed the stages of human life from birth to death.