Dream:
Salam,
I had a dream where I was putting on a black turban on my head and then my friend he helps me put it on. Later on I see myself with black clothes (Pakistani traditional shalwar kamees) with my black turban on my head. I go inside this house and this older man says to come with him in a large house where he says he needs help to turning the lights on because it dark throughout the house. So I find the switch and start turning on all the lights and it gets very bright and then to save on money I turn the lights off but to leave enough so there is enough light to see from room to room.
What is the meaning of the black clothes and black imamah? Also what is the meaning of the lights?
Interpretation:
wa `alaykum salam
Black `amamah signifies struggle against your own lower self, Jihad an-Nafs. The house is your heart, which due to this intense struggle has been expanded and filled with lights from the Divine Presence. Dimming the lights is due to weakened resolve. You need to take the hand of a Guiding Shaykh, a Murshid Kamil, as represented by the old man, in order to have the spiritual support needed to continue the journey with full light. and Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
