Question:

Salaam alaikum.
I went to sleep at 2:30am. At sharp, 3:30am, I woke up and was not at all sleepy. I lay in bed doing dhikr and suddenly I heard myself breathing like a dog. I, then heard a voice of a dog barking inside me. I continued reading Ayat-ul-Kursi and doing dhikr. I started having sharp pain in my back and then all of a sudden I was very sleepy. I closed my eyes and I could feel someone pulling energy out of my body from my left foot. I got aggrevated and asked sheikh Nazim & Abdul Qadir Jilani to help me. I saw a bright green light and I woke up. Did that evil spirit take over me? I have been experiencing head aches since then. Please advise something to read.

Answer:

wa `alaykum salam,

When you call the awliyaullah they come, so don’t give too much credence or power to shaytan. Didn’t you see the light? The dog is only your ego, always barking… not happy with Dhikrullah. Ignore it until it stops, which may take time.

Make fresh wudu before sleeping and pray 2 raka`ats greeting the wudu, insha-Allah you will not be bothered.

Taher Siddiqui

Dream:

Assalammualaikum.

I dreamt I went into a beautiful mosque. I went up the stairs and there were a lot of people. I walked towards the left side and a tall lady dressed fully in hijab asked a person where the ‘muslim’ side of the mosque was. I walked past her and there was a beautiful middle aged lady dressed in white sat down with people around her. She looked up and she smiled, her facial expression looked as though she wanted to speak to me but there were too many people around her so she continued talking to them. I think I was looking for a toilet and I looked at the signs and there was no toilet there so I started walking to the right side of the mosque. As I walked away the lady looked as though she was getting up to come talk to me.

Interpretation:

wa `alaykum salam,

Your dunya and akhira will come together and blend in a very easy and comfortable way, insha-Allah, and Allah knows best.

Taher Siddiqui

Dream:

Assalamu Alaykum
I dreamt I was with my parents in cyprus with an army of mureeds.We travelled up to woodland hill and was made to stop by shaykhs (unknown). Once at top we told a girl had been martyred and we were to pray funeral. The girl was only a few years old and was alive, when questioned they saud her gun wound on stomach had been patched,her clothes were unstained clean white. I played with her and she smiled (not in pain but drowsy) I sand Shahada to her, she asked and I explained what it was and she said I know what it is now.

Interpretation:

wa `alaykum salam,

This dream shows you the rarity of those who “die before you die” for among the many contenders (murids), only one achieved martyrdom and purity, the Station of Witnessing, may Allah grant it to all of us. Imagine, if the martyr in the Way of Allah feels no pain and is immediately granted Paradise, what about the one who achieved that station not through being killed but through killing his or her own ego.

Taher Siddiqui

Dream:

Asalamalaikoum
My mother saw that she went to the old house . She saw a door open, a very beautiful woman told her that the house is above. The door was open. My mother entered,the keys on her hand, saw a lot of green plants. Few of them begin to dry. Some part of the floor was wet. There is light in the house. She saw on her right side my father rahemahouAllah in a room sleeping. My mother said you are here!. My father, said, I came here to have a rest. He asked my mother, why are you here? she answered, i came to give water to the plants. He told my mother come, take her hand with both of his hands, his hands were white, and said: tell them not to send me that tray/salver of food anymore because I am paying a lot for it.

Interpretation:

wa `alaykum salam,

Your mother is close to your father and her prayers for him are a blessing, brightening his grave, . “Don’t send salvers of food” means recite Quran and gift the recitation to your father, but expect no reward. As Sayyidina Anas (r) relates that he said to the Prophet (s): “O Messenger of Allah, we give in charity, perform the pilgrimage, and supplicate for our dead. Does this reach them?” He replied, “Yes, indeed it reaches them, and they rejoice thereat just as one of you rejoices at the gift of a tray of food.” That he cannot pay for them means he is not in the station of wilayah where he can respond by making du`a for the one gifting him the recitation.

and Allah knows best,

Taher Siddiqui