Dream:
Salaam 3alaykum,
Please note I am not a mureed of Shaykh Nazim but have been taught a lot of things by a mureed of Shaykh Nazim’s (uloom al baatin) from a young age.
I dreamt I was in a room, sitting on the floor with 1 or 2 other people and Shaykh Nazim. There was a young man sitting there facing the Shaykh (who’s at the front of the room) but has his head turned toward me and he tells me of some things that happened to him. (I think in Canada, on his way to the Shaykh’s place). And then he presses his thumb against my groin (which hurt) to demonstrate what the people did to him. Then he leaves and all I remember is looking into the Shaykh’s eyes (they are a vivid blue). And then he hands me a small piece of paper and it has something written on it in Arabic. I read it and it says something along the lines of ‘You are not a better kamil than the old generation but you are the greatest (or better) kamil of the younger generation’. I think that whilst I was reading the paper, I was thinking it was implying my knowledge at that particular time and older generation was implying the elders who were still alive.
I assume kamil here means insaan al kamil. Can you go into detail about it?
Interpretation:
a`udhu billah mina ‘sh-shaytani ‘r-rajeem
Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem
Wa `alaykum salaam wa rahmatullah
‘Al-Insan al-Kamil‘ with alif lam before it ‘al‘ is The Insan al Kamil that the awliya understand is none other than Prophet Muhammad (saws) The Perfected human being as a Prophet before Adam (as) and the Seal of Messengers. As a hadith relates “I was a Prophet and Adam was between Water and Clay.”
Insaan al-Kamil without the alif lam refers to the Perfected Human Being of his time. The Perfected Shaykh who represents the Prophet in his respective generation. Each generation has such a wali, and it is believed that Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is that one of this age. Mawlana Shaykh Hisham has manuscripts translated from Mawlana
Shaykh Daghestani about the stations and roles of these awliya. He (qs) has been entrusted with that and has the ability to describe these realities. For you to look at Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and receiving the described paper, InshaAllah you are under his guidance that will lead you to your own station of perfection.
W ‘Allahu `alam
Kamau Ayyubi
