Dreams
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
(May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
One of our brothers/sisters has asked
this question:
I know
this somehow does not fall under this category but there wasn`t one in the list
that defined it properly. Dreams/Telepathy or Something else?
what
does Islam say about premonitions? i mean while u are awake getting/sensing
things and then them coming true in one way or the other?
It all
started when i was in college, was 17. i used to get flashes of images in my
head - don`t know from where, but they would just pop-up and voices too - and
then they would come true in one way or the other. it`s been the case for the
past 10 years. i get flashes of images in my mind and then they somehow come
true. if not in reality then whatever i`ve seen comes true on Television or
Newspaper, but it does end up happening to someone. i mean many a times i`m
relieved that whatever i saw didn`t happen to me or any of my immediate family
members or my friends or people i love and care about, but other times i get
scared because i don`t know who it might happen to. can you help me on this
one. i mean i do ask Allah all the time for help and guidance regarding
everything and everyone but i also do believe that help does not come by its
own i have to make effort for it, so can you tell me what it is that i`ve been
experiencing? i also at times feel people reaching out to me as in strong
feelings of other people around me, people who are in another continent, people
who don`t know me and haven`t met.
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Answer:
Dreams
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and
whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness
that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 9.144 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "When the
Day of Resurrection approaches, the dreams of a true believer will hardly fail
to come true, and a dream of a believer is one of forty-six parts of
Prophetism, and whatever belongs to Prothetism can never be false."
Muhammad bin Sirin said, "It used to be said, 'There are three types of
dreams:
• The reflection of one's thoughts and experiences one has during
wakefulness,
• what is suggested by the Shaytaan to frighten the dreamer,
• or glad tidings from Allah.
So, if someone has a dream which he dislikes,
he should not tell it to others, but get up and offer a prayer.'"
In light of the above hadith, if one has a good dream then
it is always from Allah Subhanah in the form of good tidings. Whenever one experiences good dreams and good
tidings, one must be grateful to Allah Subhanah and redouble his efforts in
doing good righteous deeds to make himself more deserving of the honor which
their Lord Most Merciful has bestowed upon them.
If one has an evil or frightening dream, it is, without an
iota of a doubt, from the accursed Shaytaan.
One should immediately take refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytaan,
disregard the dream and never mention the dream to anyone, for it will never be
able to harm him.
Sahih Al-Bukhari
HadithHadith 9.119 Narrated byAbu Huraira
I heard Allah's
Messenger (saws) saying, "Nothing is left of the Prophetism except
Al-Mubashshirat." They asked,
"What are Al-Mubashshirat?" He (saws) replied, "The true good
dreams (that conveys glad tidings)."
Sister many amongst human beings experience these dreams
and/or premonitions. The Holy Prophet saws had said that after him there will
be no revelations and prophecies but dreams and premonitions of actual events
to take place will be witnessed by some amongst the people.
Whenever you witness such dreams or events, you should
remember Allah swt and seek His protection from any harm if it is a bad dream
or thank Him gratefully if it is a good event. At no instance you should
believe that you are special or have any sort of powers to do anything good or
bad. These are some of the mysteries which none except Allah swt can explain
comprehensively.
Jabir reported that the Prophet (saws) said:
‘If someone of you sees an unpleasant dream he should spit three times on his
left side and seek Allah's refuge from the accursed Shaytaan, and change the
side on which he was lying.'
Reported by Muslim, Abu Daw'ud, Nasa-i, and
Ibn Majah
A muslim should obviously believe in the ‘concept’ of
dreams, but not necessarily in the ‘content’ of the dreams! The belief of a muslim who sincerely fears
Allah and the Last Day is based on the Guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah
alone and nothing else. Neither can the contents of a dream be a basis for
altering any of the beliefs endorsed by the Quran and the Sunnah, nor can the
contents of any dream be a basis for changing any of the laws of Shariah.
Allah Says in His Holy Quran Chapter 35 Surah
Fatir verse 2:
2 What Allah out of
His Mercy doth bestow on mankind there is none can withhold: what He doth
withhold there is none can grant apart from Him: and He is the Exalted in Power
Full of Wisdom.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah
Ahzaab verse 3:
And put your trust in Allah
Alone; and enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah
Taubah verse 51:
Say: "Nothing will happen to us except what
Allah has decreed for us: He is our Protector"; and
on Allah let the believers put their trust.
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is only
ones. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
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