Dream:
Salam alaikum!
I am a lay Catholic monk and I watch all of the videos of Mawlana Sheikh Nazim on your website… I had a dream where I was in my living room on a bright and sunny day with Mawlana Sheikh Nazim and a few mureeds, and we were all doing dhikr. I was holding my green Rosary and saying a God Jesus Christ dhikr, when suddenly, the crucifix on my rosary broke, but I kept on saying the dhikr. Mawlana Sheikh Nazim saw that I had a Catholic rosary in my hand, and I thought he would be angry because he saw my Catholic Rosary. But, with a smile on his face, Mawlana Sheikh Nazim extended his hand and I gave him my Rosary. Mawlana Sheikh Nazim then took a huge green Catholic Rosary out of his pocket, and I noticed that the Rosary had a large Orthodox Christian style crucifix on it. Mawlana Sheikh Nazim then began to break the Orthodox crucifix on the Rosary and then he replaced that old crucifix with a new and bigger Catholic crucifix, and he gave me that new Rosary with a smile, he walked away, and the dream ended. I remembered all the details in this dream. Sheikh Nazim was wearing green with a green turban and the mureeds were wearing white…
May the Peace and protection of God the Father be Upon you!
Interpretation:
`Alaykum Salam,
Crucifix in Islamic dream-interpretation stands for blindness. The dream indicates you can intermittently see the truth of Islam, symbolized by the fact that Orthodoxy is doctrinally slightly closer to pure monotheism, but then you prefer not to see and Mawlana comforts you with what you know. See also what he said recently [in this suhbah Wrong Ways]:
إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَنْ يَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ
Innamaa amruhu idhaa araada shayan an yaqoola lahu kun fayakoon.
{Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, “Be!” and it is (comes into being)!} (Surah Yaseen, 36:82)
Before it reaches to the (Arabic letter) Noon, He (swt) says “Be!” and it comes to exist, before Kaaf reaches the Noon! This is a word according to the level we are in, O son, we can’t go beyond it. This is an ocean! For this we say if one spoke about the Bismillah for a thousand years, for a million years, if for a billion years he spoke for the endless Power Oceans of the Bismillah…! Bismillah, the Holy Name of Allah Dhul Jalaal. Allahu Akbar! O our Lord! Mankind leaves this now and accepts being animals. They don’t make sajda, but they accept being animals to Shaytan. Can they ever find goodness then? They call it madjaz, that they put the old grapes in a cube and compress it, crush it, press it, and with some of it they make dessert or vinegar. We call this crushed, compressed thing “madjaz.” There are no more grape bunches left in it anymore, all of it is in that cube. Some of it becomes a provision which is halaal and some of it becomes the drink that Allah Almighty prohibited. Now dunya also has become madjaz, Shaykh Mehmet Effendi, our son. Shaytan made the world as madjaz. Who speaks is not obvious and who listens, who understands is not obvious. Who works is not obvious.
There is no one asking who he is, there is no one who asks, “To Whom am I related? I exist in this existence. Who is He that brought me into this existence, Who is my Master?” Even animals know their masters, they know their owners, but the great Man does not accept Who created him! If you don’t accept, you become madjaz and now the whole world is madjaz. They turned the huge world into an unusable place. If you collect all the people on this huge Earth and put all of them next to one another, they can’t even fill Arabia and the rest would be left empty. Along with this, they became madjaz, saying, “It will be yours, it will be mine…” Yaa Hoo!
وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ
Wa lillaahi mulku ‘s-samaawaati wa ‘l-`ard.
{And to Allah belongs the sovereignty of the Heavens and the Earth.} (Surat al-Fath, 48:14)
Hajj Gibril Haddad
