Premonitory intuition, an inner sense that perceives or anticipates an event before its outward occurrence.

“A true dream is the result of a presentiment being highly developed. Both human beings and animals have a degree of presentiment. I have discovered that both also have two additional senses: motivating and enticing senses. Although people of misguidance and corrupt thinking call these unperceived senses ‘instincts,’ they should be regarded as ‘inborn inspiration’ through which Divine Destiny directs people and animals.

Such direction allows a blind cat to find the necessary curative herb and, rubbing its eye against it, be healed. Likewise, such carnivorous birds as vultures, the sanitary officials of Earth’s surface who remove the corpses of wild animals, detect and locate a carcass tens of miles away through Destiny’s direction, inspired presentiment, or Divine orientation.

This happens with young bees that fly far away and then return to the hive without error. It also happens when someone you just mentioned appears unexpectedly. Your spiritual faculty felt, via presentiment, that person’s coming. Such occurrences are so common that we have a proverb: ‘When you mention a wolf, grab a staff to hit it with.’ You do not know that that person or wolf is coming, nor has your reason informed you about it, but you feel it through presentiment and so mention it unintentionally. Among pious people and saints, such presentiment develops to the point of becoming a source of wonders.”¹⁾

“Through some sort of presentiment, we can have some knowledge about even some of the most secret events that belong to the Unseen when they are about to occur, but this does not mean knowing the Unseen; rather, it means knowing something which is about to happen.”²⁾

“From the age of seven to ten, when I was riding in a carriage, innocent children would see me, run toward me, and cling to my hands. I used to wonder: ‘What is the wisdom behind this?’ Then, all at once, it was inwardly indicated to me that this group of little innocents, through a sense of presentiment, felt that they would find happiness through the Risale-i Nur and be saved from spiritual dangers.”³⁾

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