Dream:
Assalamoualaikoum,
I saw myself walking. I reached a place where some people are going to play something. I heard that they chose that place to play in, because it is near a graveyard where one can hear one’s dead parent.I liked the place. I saw myself lying on my right side on the ground. A kind of a verge of the grave serves as a pillow. I fell asleep for a while. I realised that some people are around. I stood up; I did not want men to see me lying. When I opened my eyes I saw more men were coming from a mosque towards me/ the place to play. Some women came to watch them. I decided not to stay as a lot of men were gathered. While talking to a woman before leaving, a man greets me while walking. When I turned I am told he is Hakim..
Interpretation:
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَتَوَفَّٮٰڪُم بِٱلَّيۡلِ وَيَعۡلَمُ مَا جَرَحۡتُم بِٱلنَّہَارِ ثُمَّ يَبۡعَثُڪُمۡ فِيهِ لِيُقۡضَىٰٓ أَجَلٌ۬ مُّسَمًّ۬ىۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيۡهِ مَرۡجِعُكُمۡ ثُمَّ يُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ
{It is He Who doth take your souls by night and hath knowledge of all that ye have done by day; by day doth He raise you up again; that a term appointed be fulfilled; in the end unto Him will be your return then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.}( Surat al-An`am, 6:60)
Our shuyukh recommend to remember death daily and to keep the Prophetic sunnah of lying on the right side between the sunnah and fard prayers of fajr. The Prophet (s) said, “Sleep is the twin brother of death,” and your sleeping on the right side at the grave is a preparation and reminder of your final destination on earth. When you have the Afterlife perspective you have wisdom (hikma), shown by the man, Hakim. The granddaughter of the Prophet (s), Nafisa at-Tahira (as), dug a grave in her house where she used to pray and read the Quran. It is said that she read the Quran there 6000 times.
Dr. Karim Tourk
