The second kind of Dreams: Evil dreams - DREAMS IN ISLAM

The second kind of Dreams: Evil dreams

An evil dream is a dream from Satan, and will almost certainly come our way if we were, for example, to eat so much in the evening meal that tiredness and sleep overpowered us and we went to sleep without performing our evening prayer.

An example of the phenomenon of evil dreams which can plague and distress the dreamer and make his life truly miserable would be that of a husband who continuously dreams of his wife’s infidelity.  If the husband does not exercise care it can result in the break-up of his marriage.  The Prophet sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam therefore took pains to explain that Satan can and does invade our dreams to plant such experiences which can have dangerous consequences if we do not know how to handle them.  “When any of you has an evil dream”, said the Prophet sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, “he should spit three times to his left as soon as he rises from sleep, - and then refrain from narrating that dream to any one at all.  Then the dream would not harm him in any way.”

The spitting was meant to be a purely symbolic act with only the sound being emitted and no saliva actually leaving the mouth.  Its importance appears to be essentially psychological in the sense of impressing upon the self that the evil is being dispelled. Then by refraining from narrating the dream to anyone the dream is not activated, i.e., it does not enter into force.  One then ceases to think of it thus depriving the dream of the opportunity of making any kind of negative impact upon the conscious mind.

Narrated Abu Salama:

I used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard Abu Qatada saying: “I too, used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard the Prophet saying: A good dream is from Allah, so if anyone of you saw a dream which he liked, he should not tell it to anybody except to the one whom he loves, and if he saw a dream which he disliked, then he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil and from the evil of Satan, and spit three times (on his left) and should not tell it to anybody, then it will not harm him.”

 (Bukhari)

 (Abu Salama narrated, in another hadith reported in Sahih Muslim, the following words of the Prophet: “And he should change the side on which he had been lying before.”)

Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri:

I heard Allah’s Apostle saying: “If anyone of you saw a dream which he liked, then that was from Allah, and he should thank Allah for it and tell it to others; but if he saw something else, i.e, a dream which he did not like, then that is from Satan and he should seek refuge with Allah from it and should not tell it to anybody for it will not harm him.” 

 (Bukhari)

Narrated Abu Qatada Al-Ansari:

(a companion of the Prophet and one of his cavalry men) “I heard Allah’s Apostle saying: “A good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan; so, if anyone of you had a bad dream which he disliked, then he should spit on his left and seek refuge with Allah from it, for it will not harm him.” 

 (Bukhari)

Narrated Abu Qatada:

The Prophet said, “A good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan. So whoever has seen (in a dream) something he dislikes, then he should spit without saliva, thrice on his left and seek refuge with Allah from Satan, and it will not harm him; and Satan cannot appear in my shape.” 

 (Bukhari)

Narrated Abu Qatada:

The Prophet said, “A good dream that comes true is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan, so if anyone of you sees a bad dream, he should seek refuge with Allah from Satan and should spit on the left, and the bad dream will not harm him.” 

 (Bukhari)

Narrated Abu Qatada: 

The Prophet said, “A true good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan.”

 (Bukhari)  

Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri:

The Prophet said, “If anyone of you sees a dream that he likes, then it is from Allah, and he should thank Allah for it and narrate it to others; but if he sees something else, i.e., a dream that he dislikes, then it is from Satan, and he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil, and he should not mention it to anybody, for it will not harm him.” 

 (Bukhari)

The Prophet also explained that “A dream sits on the wing of a flying bird and will not take effect unless it is related to someone.”  ²⁹ 

An example of an evil dream is this dream which was narrated to the Prophet sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam by one of his companions:

“Jabir reported that a man came to Allah’s Messenger and said: Allah’s Messenger, I have seen in the state of sleep as if my head had been cut off.  (In another version of the hadith, also narrated by Jabir, the following is also mentioned: I saw my head rolling before me, and I saw myself running after it and seeking it in the dream).  Thereupon Allah’s Messenger laughed and said: When Satan plays with anyone of you while sleeping, do not mention it to the people.”

 (Muslim)

Additionally one may also recite the verse of the throne (ayah al-kursi) when going to sleep for protection from Satan while one is asleep.  We learn this from the following incident;

Narrated Muhammad bin Sireen: Abu Huraira said:“Allah’s Apostle put me in charge of the zakat of Ramadan (i.e., zakat al-Fitr).  Someone came to me and started scooping some of the foodstuff of (zakat) with both hands. I caught him and told him that I would take him to Allah’s Apostle.” Then Abu Huraira told the whole narration and added: “He (i.e., the thief) said: Whenever you go to your bed, recite the verse of “al-Kursi” (Qur’an: al-Baqara:-2:255) for then a guardian from Allah will be guarding you, and Satan will not approach you until dawn.” On that the Prophet said: “He told you the truth, though he is a liar, and he (the thief) himself was the Satan.”

Source: Dreams in Islam by Imran Hosein
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DREAMS IN ISLAM

Ansari Memorial Series

DREAMS IN ISLAM

A WINDOW TO TRUTH

AND TO THE HEART

Imran N. Hosein

MASJID DARUL QUR’AN LONG ISLAND NEW YORK USA

Copyright @ Imran N. Hosein

Published by Masjid Darul Qur’an,

1514 East Third Avenue,

Bayshore, NY 11706,

USA.

Tel: (516)665-9462

First published 1997

This new edition 2001

About the Author

Imran N. Hosein, of Trinidad and Tobago, studied Islam under the Islamic scholar and Sufi Shaikh, Dr. Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari, at the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies, Karachi, and graduated with al-Ijazah al-’Aliyah. He did graduate studies in philosophy, psychology and sociology, and post-graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Karachi, and graduated with a Master’s degree in philosophy.  He also has a Post-Graduate Diploma in international relations from the University of the West Indies, and a Master’s degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

He served in the diplomatic service of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago until he gave up that career in 1985 in order to devote his life to the mission of Islam.  Since 1991 he has been the Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York.  During this time he has also been khateeb at the Islamic Community of the United Nations, Manhattan.

Among his published works are‘Islam and Buddhism in the Modern World’,  ‘Islam and the Changing World Order’, ‘The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam and a work on the Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate. Works which are currently being published include ‘The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel - A View from the Qur’an’; ‘The Caliphate, the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-State’; and ‘The Prohibition of Riba in the Qur’an and Sunnah’.

Imran Hosein has conducted Islamic lecture-tours of several parts of the world, including more than a dozen visits to Malaysia and Singapore since 1988.  .

For my beloved daughter Hira

May Allah bless her with

good dreams

Ameen!

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Dreams in Pagan Arabia

Dreams in Christian Arabia

Dreams in the Qur’an:

1st.  Dream: Dream of Joseph(a) in which sun, moon, and eleven stars bow to him

2nd. Dream:  Dream to King’s Butler in prison in which he pours wine for King

3rd. Dream:  Dream to King’s Baker in prison of birds picking from basket of bread on his    head

4th. Dream:  Dream to Egyptian King of seven fat cows etc.

5th. Dream:  Dream to Abraham(a) to sacrifice his son, Ishmael (a)

6th. Dream:  Wahi (perhaps as a dream) to the mother of Moses to put her baby in a basket in the river Nile

7th. Dream:  Dream of Prophet Muhammad (s) the night before the battle of Badr

8th. Dream:  Dream of Prophet Muhammad (s) concerning making a pilgrimage to the House of Allah in Makkah

Dreams and Prophethood

Classification of Dreams in Islam:

First kind of Dream: A good true dream - like seeing the Prophet in a dream

How to qualify for good and true dreams?

How to respond if a believer says he has seen a dream

        Second kind of Dream: Evil dreams

        Third kind of Dream: from the nafs

Implication of false claim concerning dreams

Dreams which the Prophet saw

Dreams of the Companions of the Prophet

The Interpretation of Dreams

Conclusion

Notes

Source: Dreams in Islam by Imran Hosein
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A MUSLIM RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON AMERICA

A MUSLIM RESPONSE

TO THE ATTACK ON

AMERICA

IMRAN N. HOSEIN

Website: http://www.onejamaat.com

Email address: ihosein@onejamaat.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The writer is an Islamic scholar and writer who was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad and was based in New York until the September attack on America. He studied Islam at the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies, Karachi, Pakistan, under the guidance of the distinguished Islamic scholar and Sufi Shaykh, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (ra). He also studied Philosophy at Karachi University, and International Relations at the University of the West Indies and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.  He has emerged as a prolific writer with many published works to his credit. Among them are his pioneering work in Comparative Religion entitled: ‘Islam and Buddhism in the Modern World’ which was written in 1971 when he was 29 years of age.  Since then he has written more than a dozen books including two books on Riba.  He travels extensively and continuously while serving the mission of Islam. He has served as a khateeb delivering Friday sermons at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, NY, for the last ten years.

A MUSLIM RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON AMERICA

“Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when you should be uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never allow your effort to be in vain.”

(Qur’an: Muhammad: - 47:35)

“He who forsakes his home in the cause of Allah, finds in the earth many a refuge, wide and spacious: should he die as a refugee from home for Allah and His Messenger, his reward becomes due and sure with Allah: and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

(Qur’an: An-Nisa: -4:100)

PREFACE

I have followed with indescribable pain the cowardly American terrorist attacks on those Muslims of Afghanistan who took a stand for Islam and who were entirely innocent of the September 11th terrorist attack on America.  America has consistently followed the same policy of ruthless merciless oppression from the time of the extermination of the indigenous American-Indian peoples and the enslavement of the African people in the Americas to the absolutely shameless support for the relentless oppression of the State of Israel in the Holy Land.  Only those who are completely blind and totally corrupted in respect of their capacity for understanding can fail to see the above.

 It was cowardly because the godless enemy is too terrified to ever fight a Muslim on a level battleground.  That enemy fights his cowardly battles from the safety of fighter aircrafts, helicopter gunships, massive bombs, guided missiles, etc., far up in the sky. But Allah Most High will surely bring us that day, Insha Allah, when we will be able to face the enemy on the ground on a level battleground.  Amin!   Until that day comes we must continue our struggle to defend ourselves and to resist oppression while showing utmost patience and while holding on to faith. The struggle must continue regardless of the price we have to pay.

The Taliban were in a situation comparable to the 12 year old Palestinian Muslim boy who confronts US- made Israeli tanks with a stone in his hand.  It is he who today has inherited the sacred legacy of Prophet David (s).  Neither were the Taliban defeated by America, nor by the Northern ‘Yankee’ Alliance with which Iran is still comfortable. And the young boys who fight with stones in the Holy Land can never be defeated. Rather, the Taliban withdrew their forces in such a way as would allow them safety from cowardly fighter aircraft and missiles.  And so these soldiers of Allah live to fight ‘another’ day in the struggle to respond to oppression in the Holy Land.  We salute them! 

Muslims have absolutely no interest whatsoever in waging any war with America or with any other country in today’s dominant western civilization.  The only war we have to wage is the one that will eventually liberate the Holy Land.  Indeed that war will never end until the prophesy of Prophet Muhammad (s) is fulfilled which will witness a Muslim army emerging out of Khorasan and marching triumphantly to Jerusalem!  All those who read this book, and who are Muslims, should have the desire in their hearts to be a part of that army. 

This book salutes the memory of every Muslim who died in Afghanistan in consequence of cowardly British, American and Israeli terrorism.  The blood and tears of our valiant sons who were killed in Afghanistan, and who will now be killed elsewhere, or who will be imprisoned in the prisons of the dominant godless world order, will not be in vain.  Rather it will fertilize the resolve and matchless spirit of millions and millions of Muslims (particularly Muslim youth) elsewhere who will now respond to this awesome shameless naked oppression by committing themselves and their sons and grandsons to that armed Islamic struggle that will eventually liberate the Holy Land.  This ‘dark night’ will hardly last another fifty years before the sunshine surely returns, Insha Allah, and Truth triumphs for the last time over falsehood.  At that time Islam would rule the world from Jerusalem.  My latest book, ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’, which is soon to be printed, was written to inspire such Muslim youth.  I pray that Allah Most High will send those who will translate that book into every language spoken by Muslims so that it may reach all such Muslim youth.  Amin!

The terrorist attack on America constituted a turning point in history as significant as that moment in the summer of 1914 when another terrorist attack launched the First World War.  I believe that those who are hell-bent on eventually ruling the whole world are responsible for both terrorist attacks, and that the Israeli Mossad and its allies acted on their behalf in planning and executing the attack of September 11^th.

The terrorist attack and the ensuing so-called war on ‘terrorism’ that it provoked, was designed to make the world a safer place for the Jews and for the State of Israel.  The true terrorists who attacked America on that day know who they are, and Allah Most High also Knows who they are.  We pray to Allah Most High to expose them, and to punish them.  Amin!   

The ruling British/American/Jewish world order is now more openly at war with Islam than ever before.  This is because they are approaching the climax of their more-than-a-thousand- year war.   ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’ makes an attempt to explain this war against Islam, and to anticipate what lies ahead for that world order, for Muslims, and for the State of Israel. 

The most dangerous and obnoxious of all creatures on the face of the earth today, or the most evil people beneath the sky, are those scholars of Islam or Muslim leaders who were totally deceived by the September 11^th act of terrorism and who responded to it by blaming Arabs and Muslims for the attack and by extending patriotic support to Britain/USA/Israel in their war against Islamic Afghanistan.  Usama bin Ladin and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan were completely innocent of that September 11^th attack.  The war against them on this account is manifestly unjust.  Such misguided Islamic scholars and leaders ought to be universally condemned. 

I responded to the September 11^th  attack days later by praying to Allah Most High in an Islamic Center in Queens, New York, to punish those responsible for the attack with the greatest possible punishment, and with a punishment that would continue until the Last Day.  All those who were present in the Masjid joined me in the prayer. Having done that I now invite the Jews to make a similar prayer.

Imran N. Hosein

Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia.

December 2001

Source:A MUSLIM RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON AMERICA.