Thursday, March 13, 2008

Dreams can come true?

Lately, I have been listening to one of the English radio channels here in Brunei. One thing that I noticed was that during the evening shows, the deejays would invite guests to chat and accept phone-ins from the listeners.

During one of the weekly shows, one particular deejay, who was very chatty, energetic and a bit hyper-active, would invite this lady who interpretes dreams and talk about star signs. The guest would be told by the listeners about their dreams and she would tell them what the dreams meant. Since the radio channel is run by the government radio station and this being an Islamic country, I would think that this particular method of dream interpretation and star sign would be frown upon.

I extracted the following from http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?pg=qa&ref=6537&ln=eng.

1. The most truthful of dreams are those that are seen at the time of suhoor [just before dawn], for this is the time when Allaah descends and when mercy and forgiveness are close. It is also the time when the devils are quiet, unlike the time of darkness just after sunset, when the devils and devilish souls spread out. (See Madaarij al-Saalikeen, 1/50-52)

2. Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar said: All dreams are either of two types: true dreams. These are the dreams of the Prophets and of the righteous people who follow them. They may also happen to other people, but this is very rare. True dreams are those which come true in real life as they were seen in the dream. Mixed up false dreams, which warn of something. These are of different types: games of the Shaytaan to make a person distressed.

3. Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If any one of you sees a dream that he likes, this is from Allaah, so let him praise Allaah for it and talk about it to others. If he sees other than that, a dream that he dislikes, this is from the Shaytaan, so let him seek refuge with Allaah from its evil and not mention it to anyone, for it will not harm him.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6584, and Muslim, 5862).

It was reported from Jaabir (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If any one of you sees a dream that he dislikes, let him spit to his left three times, and seek refuge with Allaah from the Shaytaan three times, and turn over from the side on which he was sleeping.” (Narrated by Muslim, 5864)

4. Ibn Hajar said: to sum up what has been said about good dreams, we may say three things:
A person should praise Allaah for the good dream
He should feel happy about it
He should talk about it to those whom he loves but not to those whom he dislikes.

To sum up what has been said about bad dreams, we may say four things:
He should seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of the dream
He should seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of the Shaytaan
He should spit to his left three times when he wakes up
He should not mention it to anyone at all.
In al-Bukhaari, Baab al-Qayd fi’l-Manaam, a fifth thing was narrated from Abu Hurayrah, which is to pray. The wording of the report is: whoever sees something he dislikes (in a dream) should not tell anyone about it; rather he should get up and pray. This was reported as a Mawsool report by Imaam Muslim in his Saheeh.
Muslim added a sixth thing, which is to turn over from the side on which one was lying.

Waallahu a'lam.....

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you for this blog entry, very informative. Well done, Bulgemeister!

Anonymous said...

Hey Arzhri,
Thansk for stopping by. And thanks for leaving a comment.

Cookiedough said...

Yes azhri was right. This was informative. And true enough, last week, the first dream I had about my late father was just before Subuh. It made me feel very happy and peaceful....