Dream:
Audhu billahi minashaytanirrajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
As-Salamu Aleykum
One involves lions, one involves the moon and another involves a wall.
The dream with lions is me walking through the desert seeing a cloud of dust in the horizon getting closer and closer. The cloud of dust then settled it revealing a number of people all looking the same with vibrant curly black hair, i remember thinking at the time that they all looked like me. They all were riding lions and found it curious that I didn’t have one and asked where my lion was. I replied I didn’t have one. As soon as I had replied a lion came out of nowhere and brushed past me as if it were about to attack but then was repelled by a shout from one of the riders. Somehow as is the case in dreams they came to a conclusion that I didn’t know how to keep a lion and my lion had left me as a consequence. They decided to show me how to keep a lion. They all dismounted their lions saying this is how to a keep a lion and then began dancing coaxing the lions to dance with them. Their lions began showing their amusement and started dancing with them in sync. After their dance they went back onto their lions and said thats how to keep lions and continued on their way by riding pass me.
The second and third dreams to follow.
Interpretation:
wa `alaykum salam,
Lions are those “Men of Allah” who are related by spirituality and bloodline to Sayyidina `Ali (r). Those riding them are people who have taken baya` with those particular saints. Riding them represents they are under their discipline and training of their egos. You don’t have one as you have not taken baya`. “Keeping your lion” means keeping the Path of one’s Shaykh, and dancing represents dhikrullah, where one is lost in the remembrance of Allah. In today’s world the hadrah is the ultimate form of dhikr for it quickly attracts the presence of saints and if saints are already physically present in the hadrah, it attracts the gaze of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) from his station.
W ‘Allahu `alam,
Taher Siddiqui
