Question:
Salaam, I took bayah a few months ago, I do my daily zikr, but I don’t feel like I am reaching any higher spiritual stations, I had few dreams of mawlana but nothing recently. What can I do to increase my love for Allah? And also for mawlana? And also for the doors of wisdom to open for me and knowledge? Jazakallah salaam
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
Insha-Allah Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani is praying for your upliftment.
Keep the Adab of Rajab firmly and insha-Allah you will be blessed with great and swift spiritual progress.
As for dreams, they are not necessarily an indication of spiritual upliftment or progress, rather, as Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani has often said, “they are candies to keep the interest of the murid focussed on his or her spiritual work.” Often those telling everyone their dreams are showing off, with or without realizing it. For that reason Shaykh Hisham has often said to keep one’s dreams to oneself, for revealing them will 1) stop their appearance, and 2) be a source of pride, and we seek refuge in our Lord from that.
Taher Siddiqui