Dream:
Assalomo AlaIkum Ya Syedi
i had a dream where the Prophet pbuh is about to make salaah, and they ask me to pray next to them, and i look at them with a smile and say to them how can i pray next to you,you are the Prophet Sallalahoo Aalaihewasalim, and they respond with a beautiful heart melting smile, in the dream i notice when i start to to make sallah i am facing the kaabah but the Prophet of mercy begins to pray facing in an other direction, in the dream they leave me with 4 things, and the only thing i remember is a box of matches..Jazakallah
Interpretation:
wa `alaykum salam,
Mabruk, that is a wonderful and blessed dream. You have attracted the attention of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) by your devotion and he is guiding you to a higher station, rather than facing the qiblah of brick and mortar, facing the Divine Presence. He gave you four secrets, three of which you are not able to grasp but which will be revealed to you by employing the first al-Kibrit al-Ahmar, the Red Sulphur, who in this time is Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani.
Here is a rare suhbat by Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani about this subject:
The Kibrit al-Ahmar is the Red Sulphur, and is something whose existence is very rare. Kibrit al-Asfar, Yellow Sulphur, is more common. Awliyaullah generally are like Yellow Sulphur, but among them are a very few who are very rare, and they are the Kibrit al-Ahmar.
What is sulphur, kibrit? It is the source of fire. So Yellow Sulphur represents awliya in general who have a fiery power. When they release that energy that Allah put in their hearts they can reach anywhere they want. And sulphur is that by which fire comes, it means you produce fire; you produce warmth. That warmth is when you feel warm, not cold. It means you are in that cozy comforting presence. They carry you to that Divine Presence. That sulphur also means what Sayyidina Musa spoke of:
فَلَمَّا قَضَى مُوسَىالْأَجَلَ وَسَارَ بِأَهْلِهِ آنَسَ مِن جَانِبِ الطُّورِ نَارًا قَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ امْكُثُوا إِنِّي آنَسْتُ نَارًا لَّعَلِّي آتِيكُم مِّنْهَا بِخَبَرٍ أَوْ جَذْوَةٍ مِنَ النَّارِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَصْطَلُونَ
{And when Moses had fulfilled his term and was wandering with his family [in the desert], he perceived a fire on the slope of Mount Sinai; [and so] he said to his family: ‘Wait here. Behold, I perceive a fire [far away]; perhaps I may bring you from there some tiding, or [at least] a burning brand from the fire, so that you might warm yourselves.} (Surat al-Qasas, 28:29)
When he was returning from Yemen he met Sayyidina Shu`ayb who gave him his daughter after Sayyidina Musa (as) gave him eight years of work. Finally taking his leave in the tenth year, on his way back to Egypt, he arrived in the valley of Mt. Sinai, Tur Sina. There, in midst of a dark and blustery night, he saw a fire. He told his family, “Wait, I see intimacy at that fire (not as they translate ‘I perceive a fire’). Let me go and get something to warm you with it.”
That is like the sun, a source of light and warmth, so awliya when you are around them you always feel warmth and light.
That is the general case with the Yellow Sulphur. The Red Sulphur is above the Yellow Sulphur. Only a few awliyaullah can be called by that title. Their existence is very rare. They are not like common awliyaullah. They have been chosen to be taken to a higher level.
Their teaching is red. First you begin at the green light, then you go to yellow and then to red. Red is a higher level wali, one who can prevent you from falling into a problem. The yellow one takes you to the red. The saint of the Yellow Sulphur is in the common level of sainthood and can prepare you to be ready but he cannot prevent difficulties or obstacles from coming in front of you. Only the Red Sulphur can stop you from being in harm or difficulties. The yellow ones have their limits. The Red can have influence on you to bring you to maximum attention to you of not falling into the whispers of Shaytan. That is the difference between the Red Sulphur and Yellow Sulphur.
There is the maqamat al-awliya, an hierarchy of saints, including the Qutb al-Ghawth and the Aqtab and all those under them.
The base of pyramid is the basic wali level. Don’t think between yellow and red is one level. There are many different colors in between that you cannot count them even. What we can see they say are the common colors, and they number seven. In reality there more colors in between. In reality there are infinite number of colors in between for they change in grades. In every different second there is a new color from white to black and from black to white.
There is one Red Sulphur in every century. (Century here means the lifetime of the Ghawth). One passes away, another comes. There must be someone sitting on that seat.
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً
Innee ja`ilun fi ’l-ardi khalifa.
{Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: “I will create a vicegerent on earth.”} (Surat al-Baqara, 2:30)
The one who is sitting on that seat is the Red Sulphur. Shaykh Sharafuddin ad-Daghestani was known as the Red Sulphur, then after him, Grandshaykh `Abdullah ad-Daghestani and then Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is the Kibrit al-Ahmar in our time.
That is a hidden station. Not everyone knows our shaykh. But the highest level wali in that hierarchy to be hidden 100 percent cannot be. The top one cannot be hidden. But in between the top and the bottom are many awliya and they can be hidden in different areas.
Taher Siddiqui
