Question:
Doing istikhara I saw Shaykh Hisham in a different exterior and I asked him for baya. He shook his head. I stopped reading istikhara, I had another dream, I saw both my existing shaykh next to Shaykh Hisham, and asked again, I was given blessing to change.
Answer:
Wa `alaykum assalam wa rahmatuLlahi wa barakatuh,
These two dreams show that, as awliyaullah tell us, you cannot have two shaykhs of Irshad (tarbiyya) after you have taken an official baya` with one shaykh. When your original shaykh appeared next to Shaykh Hisham in the second dream, this is a stamp of approval from your original shaykh to receive baya` of barakah (blessing) from Mawlana Shaykh Hisham, inshaAllah.
Ali Hussain
