Dream:
I dreamt that I was offering asr prayers in jamat in a very beautiful old mosque. The moment the jamat started I realize that the jamat is over and I am offering it as if I have joined the jamat late. The people stop me and then one huge man asks me some questions like, “who is our beloved prophet”. I answer, “Mohammed (PBUH)”. Then I recite surah qul. Then he says, “you have passed otherwise I would have cut your throat”. This dream is quite clear in my mind and I humbly request you to interpret it.
Interpretation:
a’udhu billah mina ‘sh-shaytani ‘r-rajeem
Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem
wa ‘alaykum salam,
Ma sha Allah a very powerful and beautiful dream. Praying in such a mosque shows you are on the way of traditional Islam, Ahl as-Sunnah wal Jammah. Asr prayer symbolizes the Asr or Era of the Nation of Prophet Muhammad (s) which according to the hadith is 1500 years:
إن إَسْتَقامت أمَّتِي فلها يَوْم و إنْ لَمْ تَسْتَقِمْ فلها نِصْفُ يَوْم
“When my Community keeps on the right, it is going to enjoy an age of one day, and when it does not keep on the right, it will have an age of half a day.” (hadith mentioned in Rūh al-Bayān, Tafsīr of Sūrat al-‘Asr. )
In another version the Prophet (s) said, “If my Community keeps on the right, it is going to enjoy an age of one day, and if it becomes corrupt, it will have an age of half a day.” (Al-Munawī cites it in Fayd al-Qadīr from Shaykh Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn `Arabī.)
Allah swt said in the Holy Qur’an:
وَإِنَّ يَوْماً عِندَ رَبِّكَ كَأَلْف سَنَة مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ
And one day according to Allah’s estimation is 1,000 years according to yours. (Surat al-Hajj 22:47)
Joining the prayer late, shows we are at the end of the Ummah, 1432. The big man asking you questions is confirming that the main characteristic of the Ahl as-Sunnah wa ‘l-Jama`ah is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) which leads you to real Tawhid, shown by you reciting Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad.
Dr. Karim Tourk
