Question:
As-salamu alaykum,
I walked into the Masjid and began to take my shoes off on the shoe rack when a group of Masjid elders rushed over to me in a hurry saying “The Prophets here! The Prophets here! Don’t you want to meet him??” They held my arm and began to pull my towards the main hall. I was shocked but said yes.
I entered the main hall and saw the Prophet sitting in the main hall on the Minbar, a few steps up. He was dressed in all bright white robes, and a white turban. All the elder men at the Masjid were crying to the Prophet saying “Where are you? We need you, We’re lost without you” and they were all holding on to the right arm of the Prophet. I stood in front of the Prophet and fell to my knees while staring at him, but I couldn’t look directly into the eyes of the Prophet. There was shade covering only his eyes. While I was staring at the Prophet and the Masjid elders were crying and holding his arm the Prophet extended his left arm (which was vacant) to me and held his hand out. I looked at his hand and extended my right hand to grasp his left. As I clenched the Prophets hand I saw him smile, but not a wide smile, it was a small smile where only the left side of his lips extended and he lightly nodded his head up and down.
I have gotten different interpretations of this dream and I wanted to hear your thoughts.
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
What a magnificent dream!
When you ask multiple people about a dream, only the first interpretation you receive is going to be applicable. In any case seeing the Prophet (s) in a dream means you saw him in reality, or you will see him in real life, as many ahadith mentioned, man raa’nee fil-manaam fa sayaraanee fil-yaqazhah. That is good tidings to you for this life and safety in the next, in-sha-Allah as our Shaykhs have interpreted.
Taher Siddiqui
