Question:
Essalamu Alaikum Shaykh Taher:
I know people ask lots of dream questions in eshaykh.com.
I do not know what the Sunnah is regarding dreams, but until today I rarely thought about dream interpretation.
During the last couple of weeks, I had had some dreams.
Something, somebody is trying to tell me something, hence I ask for your forgiveness and permission to bother you.
Anyway, here they are – few dreams experienced in the last few weeks.
Dream #1:
I am trying to take Wu’du from a fountain, like the fountains in front of a Mosques. The fountain with many faucets is outside the mosque. Somehow I am unable to complete my Wudu. I am just about to finish it once, down to my left foot, a woman comes in front of me and I politely yield to her and my Wudu is cut short and I can’t complete it. I just could not complete my Wudu and enter the mosque or start my prayer. There were others around and implication or things that I was hearing was Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani was inside. And I woke up.
Answer:
It means, and Allah knows best, your attempts to purify your heart and self are accepted and valuable, but your attachment to dunya is distracting you from completion of that, thus you are unable to enter the mosque, representing the heart. So you are blocked from real heart connection to Mawlana Shaykh Hisham even though you are getting a bit of it by hearing him.
So drop dunya as much as possible, especially by creating a specific time to focus on worship, such as before Fajr and try to do your complete awrad every day.
Dream #2:
I live in a one bedroom apartment. I have my bed on the floor, not on a bed frame. I am in my bed. Mevlana Sheykh Nazim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi is sitting on my chair in front of my office desk. He is leaning forward on the chair, his back to the wall and to the desk, he is facing me, both of his arms and hands open, gesturing, or I imagine, gesturing as if saying something to me…… and I woke up.
Answer:
“Come to Me!”
Dream #3:
Same dream following number to takes place outside of my building – I am on the street facing my building, Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani is on the sidewalk. I am on the street at a lower level than him, you know sidewalk is half of a foot higher, I am walking towards him, he is in front of my building walking towards me. I felt like shaking his hand, but there was maybe 15 yard distance between us and he is moving fast towards his SUV and I woke up.
Answer:
Again you need to build the heart connection so you can be able to complete your connection in the dream to the Shaykh.
Dream #4:
It is this dream that really compelled me to write to you. Last night, I watched part of a scary movie. I watched it about 20-30 minutes, there were falling down from high places in this movie, like falling down off of a cliff. In any case, in this dream I am flying above the sky, like a glider, but faster than a glider, above the sky… I see the world between the spaces of the clouds, and the whole world has the name of Allah, in Arabic written on it. I see the lights on earth, I see the buildings on earth through the sky and through the letters, between the spaces of the letters of the word Allah in Arabic. I was scared first, then I just let myself go and really felt good and enjoyed the flying. And I woke up.
Answer:
They are showing you the reality behind everything: everything is only a manifestation of Allah’s Beautiful Names and Attributes. The flying dream shows your soul’s power to get out of gravity of earth/dunya and is an excellent sign of spiritual progress.
And Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
