Request:
Please pray for my daughter who is going Inshallah to take studies in Cambridge o level exams next year and need to prepare for the whole year. She wants to study but is often afflicted by weakness and could not concentrate on her studies. She is very anxious and request to pray for her . Jazakallah.
Response:
Walaikum Assalam,
Mawlana is praying for her.
Success is from Allah,
Ali Elsayed
Question:
Dear Shaykh Gibril,
Assalamu alaikum.
1. Are the verses below, examples of metonymy in the Quran?
a. “Help God, He will help you” (47:7)
b. “Verily those who har God” (33:57)
c. “…those who wage war against God” (9:107)
2. What is the Arabic word for metonymy?
JazakAllah khair
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
It is definitely called majaz, i.e. figurative or metaphorical, and possibly majaz al-naqs or elliptic metaphor because it presupposes a missing word in each case, as shown in the commentaries, for example al-Baydawi:
a. “If you support the Religion of Allah and His Prophet”
c. Those who wage war against the Awliya of Allah and His Messenger.
As for b. al-Baydawi said that Allah was mentioned out of magnification for the Prophet, since the full verse states: {Verily those who harm Allah and His Messenger} (33:57). In the case of Allah of course it is definitely majaz just as in c. as stated by al-Jassas in Ahkam al-Qur’an (chapter on Hadd al-Muharibin) “since it is impossible that Allah be fought” and similarly it is impossible that He be harmed.
Metonymy in Arabic is majaz tasmiya.
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which the name of one thing is used in place of that of another associated with or suggested by it, e.g. “Dar” (house) for “tribe”.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Dream:
Assalamo alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
I was walking behind some Wali Allah and two people came to shake his hand but got burnt but one was revived again as handsome man. I think it was Ghoas e Azam Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani but my aunt said that it might be “Makhdoom-ul-Alam Hazrat Alauddin Ali Ahmed Kaliyari (Sabir Kaliyari)” because he had power to burn people, can you tell who he was?
Interpretation:
wa `alaykum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh,
It means the power of the wali to purify the people who take his hand (baya`). He burns their bad deeds just as the Fire of Hell will, and purifies them. Some survive and get transformed, coming out as a wali too, while others cannot be transformed but are only purified. For that reason when people take baya` their lives are usually turned upside-down because the wali will purify his murid in this life, which is far preferred to purification in the grave or worse, in the Fire. As to who you saw, your heart will tell you.
And Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
Request:
Assalamualaykum,
My husband and I have been married for 9 months. For the past month we’ve been separated. Its been a very trying and difficult time for me. He’s gone away for Umrah and will be back in a days time. That’s when he said he will make his decision on whether he wants to continue being married or not. I humbly request your duaas, that he comes home and says he would like to make up a home with me and reconcile and give our marriage a second chance. Please, please make duaa for me as I do not want our home to break. Please I humbly request your duaas.
Shukran
Response:
Alaykum Salam,
May Allah grant you goodness here and hereafter. Mawlana Shaykh Hisham is praying for you and your family.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Assalamu alaykum
Please forgive my bad adab.
I would like to request you to please redesign the eshaykh.com website with specific reference to Latest posts. I always go to Latest posts when I go to the site. If I didn’t go to the site for a few days I would miss a lot of Latest posts as only to latest 20 posts are displayed. It would be most convenient if Latest posts are displayed in chronological order with no limit. In addition, if you could add a functionality where those posts that I have read already is marked as such.
I hope I am not asking too much.
Shukran and was salaam.
Answer:
wa ‘`alaykum salam,
We will discuss with our technical staff and see if this can be done.
Regards,
Staff
Request:
Assalamo alaikum,
I am 26 years of age. Since the last couple of years I have been having symptoms with like throbbing heart, timidity and shake of the confidence. Salaat does help me but all this stays temporal and I feel worst after Maghrib till Isha. I am not drawing a pattern over here but this is what I feel like. I often have severe mood swings and may have a medical condition.
I with great reverence request Mawalana extending his prayers for me for stability in life, peace at heart and good health.
May Allah Bless us all!
Response:
Audhubillahiminashaytanirajeem
BismillahirRahmanirRahim:
Wa alaikum Salaam wa rahmatullah,
Recite Ya muqalib al qulub wal absar qalib qulubina ila Muhabatik 10-100x daily.
O Turner of Hears and Vision Turn our hearts to your Love.
Also make salawat on Prophet (saws) 100x a day or more, as much as possible with intention of strengthening your heart with his love. InshaAllah you will be in the prayers of the Shuyukh.
Wallahu Alam,
Kamau Ayubbi
Dream:
Asalamu Aleikum,
I’ve seen few dreams where in the gas furnace gets broken and leaks gas and sometimes it catches a small fire and in my dreams I keep trying to fix it before it catches fire or cause a explosions in my house. At the end it does get better and nothing major happens..
I’m not sure if this is related to my dreams or not but since few days I’ve started smelling cigarette or minty smell in my room while no one in my family smokes.
JazakAllahu Khairan
Interpretation:
wa `alaykum salam,
Shaytan is trying to break down your heart, and make you leave prayers and `ibadah, but due to support of awliyaullah he is not able to succeed. That is the smell of awliyaullah visiting you, to let you know they are protecting you aggressively, as the Prophet (s) is hareesun `alaykum, never letting shaytan to harm you. And Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
Request:
Dear Respectable Shuyukhs,
Please ask the maulana shaykh Hisham to pray for me so that I can become self employed and open my own successful business.
I have been trying for some time.
Jazakallah, may Allah accept your hardwork for the Ummah.
Response:
Walaikum Assalam,
Mawlana is praying for you
Ali Elsayed
Question:
Asalamu alaykum sheikh Gibril Hadad.
I am speaking on behalf of my brother who is a true Sufi. As we are baith on another Naqshbandi chain, alhamdulilah. We are all one. Basically sheikh my brother has seen many dreams of a sheikh who he must learn zahiri and batini knowledge and will be the teacher…When he saw your picture he said that looks like that teacher he saw in the dream. Could I have a direct email of yours to discus the mater in detail?
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Your brother needs a living shaykh of irshad and guidance, and my best advice for him in order to progress is to make bayaa to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani which he can do online.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Dream:
I was sat at my desk studying when suddenly a big long black snake came and pulled my books off me. As I tried to get my books back, I got bitten by it and was therefore unsuccessful to get my books back.
Could you please interpretate this for me?
JazzakAllah Khair
Interpretation:
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajim
Bismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm:
A black snakes is a strong enemy who is trying your most precious possession. Recite 100 times “Ya Hafiz” every day.
Allah knows best,
Ali Elsayed
