Sunday 27 April 2008

DREAM

Dream is a very interesting subject. Some people talk about things they cannot do but wish to achieve as DREAM. But i like the topic of real dream. They said dream is 1/46 of prophethood. It is just to say that it is special. Allah has different ways of conveying His message to us and one of them is through dreams. And when people has many good dreams, it can be a good sign from Allah.. perhaps Allah wants you to pay attention to some important things in your life that needs some focusing.. but don't be confident that when you have good dreams, it is a guarantee that you will enter paradise.. everyone has to strive hard. Even Firaun dreamt that his kingdom will destroy (which became true). However, it is said that to be able to have good dreams, you need to be highly spiritual.. means you need a connection with Allah. I am not a master of dreams but i really love to have good dreams. I know someone who can interpret dreams... and i have heard stories about dreams that i would like to share.

One time this person had a dream. She dreamt that one day, the world suddenly turned dark. It was very dark that everyone was so silent and stand still .. waiting for something awful to happen. She was so scared but after a few minutes, the world turned bright again. She then went to someone - this person is a righteous person, who knows the religion well. They talked about the phenomena and this persons said that, during Rasullullah's time, when it happened, he would go inside and search for somewhere with light.. he would not stay in the dark. He would stay in the light until it turns bright again. After the dream, she woke up and felt very scared. Is it a good dream or a bad dream.. but because there is this righteous man who talked about rasulullah s.a.w., she believes it must be a good dream. It might be a warn or something. So she asked her sheikh who is very good at interpreting dreams.

Her sheikh said that you have lights inside of you. Use that light and don't rely on the light outside because it can dark outside. Things can be confusing out there.. use the light from your heart to guide you. She got a very short interpretation of the dream because her sheikh is a busy man.. she doesn't want to burden him with her unimportant agenda.. So when she thought about the matter, the interpretation is right.. going inside and search for the light.. is going into your heart and ask your heart to guide you.. that is if you have a strong IMAN and well guided. Alhamdulillah.. she was happy with the interpretation.

Then 2/3 days after that, she was staying up late and she thought she wanted to listen to the talk of Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki, a famous scholar who's talks are numerous on the internet... so she listened to the talk on the signs of the day of judgement. Suddenly when it reach to the part about the time when there was a great fitnah.... she was just like listening to the interpretation of her dream again. This time, the same word was said by Anwar Al-awlaki. He said, there will be time when the fitnah will be great and you will have to be prepared. Your heart must be strong and filled with IMAN. At that time, you cannot rely on the outside. You need the light from your heart to guide you. It means you have to ask your heart of a fatwa. The fitnah will be so great that your resource has to be your own heart. That is why you need to learn about Islam now so that when the time come, you would be ready for that.

Listening to the talk, she was speechless. This is exactly what she dreamt about. The exact word.. the exact interpretation... Subhanallah! Look at how Allah wants to emphasize things to us.. we dream and we repeatedly hear the same thing over and over again from different people so that the main point is emphasized. Allah is great. Can you imagine how she must have felt? Isn't great??

I've known people who had ayatul quran in their dreams.. they saw the ayat on a wall or something.. one time, a person saw the 1,000 dinar ayah in her dream. She saw it decorated beautifully on a hill. It meant that she has the trust in Allah now... isn't it lovely to see ayatul Quran in your dream?

There's so many things i would like to talk about when it comes to dream. Many of us have dreams but we simple ignore them because we don't know what it means and we don't know who can relate the dreams to us..

I've heard that to know whether or not you have a good dream, when you wake up, you remember the dream and you know it is good... but if you have a bad dream, simple forget about it and don't tell anyone. Spit to the left and seek refuge with Allah from the devil.

Perhaps i can write more.. but my mind is too tired now. Just came back from an interfaith gathering in the taliesin building. Ok.. pen off for now. Wasalam.