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Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to another
episode of our series towards understanding pseudo use if this is your host so called. In our
previous episode, we had described the Quran and the status of the Quran and how the Quran is in
itself clear and it clarifies things to mankind. Today we will start talking about the dream that
use of Allah His serum saw and how his father interpreted stay with us for today's episode, look on
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Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. In our previous episode, we had discussed the concept
of the Koran being clear in and of itself and clarifying things for mankind. And the fact that Allah
subhana wa tada has revealed the best of all stories in the Quran. And we indicated that this is a
type of indication that the surah itself of use of Allah His Salam tells us the best of all stories,
the story of use of is the best story in the entire Koran. And today, we will begin talking about
the exact dream that begins the surah. And the same dream that ends the surah. The beginning part of
the surah tells us about a dream that you saw, Allah says, what is called I used to fully be what it
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means, remember, recall, when use of set to his father, here we have to pause who is useful, and who
is the father of use of use of Allah His Salaam, is a noble prophet of Allah subhana wa Taala, whose
father was Yaqoob. And Yaqoob was a prophet whose father was also a prophet. His father was his half
and his half was a prophet whose father as well was a prophet, and that is the Prophet Ibrahim
alayhis salaam. In other words, we have a full lineage of prophets, Ibrahim alayhis salaam, who is
as we all know, the Khalid or the friend of Allah, and Ibrahim alayhis, salaam son is half his half
son is Yaqoob and Yaqoob son, his use of once a man came to the Prophet of the Lahore I sent him and
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he said, O Messenger of Allah, Who is the most noble of all of mankind. So the Prophet system said
the most noble is the one who has the most fear of Allah and love of Allah. As Allah says, In the
Chronicle in the law, as the one who has the most taqwa is the most noble, the man said, O Messenger
of Allah, I'm not asking about that type of nobility. So the Prophet system said, Do you mean
nobility of lineage? So this is what the man wanted. Who of the Arabs is the most noble he wanted to
find out? The Prophet systems that if that's the type of nobility you want, then the most noble is
use of the son of a prophet, the son of a prophet, the son of a prophet, this is what the prophet
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system said, the most noble of lineage just in terms of pure lineage is used to value his setup. How
much more noble Can you be when your father and your grandfather and your great grandfather and you
yourself are a prophet? So use of Allah His setup is this noble personality that the Prophet system
said, is the most blessing in lineage so Yusuf Alayhi Salaam is telling his father of a dream that
he saw and his father is Yahoo.
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Yaqoob is also known as his straw eel. Okay. Yaqoob had a nickname, his actual name is Yaqoob and he
had a nickname and that nickname is his slaw in therefore the children of Yaqoob are called the
children of Israel, Bani Israel in and Jaco Valley his Sallam had 12 sons, 12 sons, and each of
these sons eventually became a tribe in and of themselves, so we call them the 12 tribes of Israel,
or the 12 tribes of Israel. These are the 12 sons of Yahoo. Use of Allah His solemn is one of these
12 and use of Ali Salaam says he has seen a dream. Well, a number of questions arise. Firstly, how
old was he when he saw this dream?
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scholars estimate based upon external sources, that he was probably seven, eight years old when he
saw the stream, a young lad a young boy who has not yet even become a mature man. Secondly, he saw a
dream. So what if he saw a dream? What is the statue
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Just have a dream. A dream is not reality a dream is fiction correct? Well, here we have to pause,
and we have to clarify what is the Islamic status of a dream. This is a topic in and of itself. And
we can talk long about this. But we will summarize in a few essential points. Realize My dear
brothers and sisters in Islam, that a dream is one of three types in our religion. as Muslims, we
believe that a dream is one of three types. The first type and the most common type. And the type
that we dream every single night pretty much is what we call Hadith, or knifes, or the whisperings
of our own selves and imaginations. This is a dream that is purely fictional, we imagine and we
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dream it ourselves. For example, if we are talking about, we want to drive a car or went to purchase
a car, lo and behold, we dream ourselves driving that car, or we think of a big house and want to
purchase a house and we dream ourselves in that house. The sign of this dream. One of the main signs
of this dream is that when you wake up in the morning, you forget about it very quickly. The image
does not last very long.
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This is a common phenomenon. All of you wake up, and you're just dreaming about something is fresh
in your memory. And within a few minutes, if somebody asked you to describe that dream, you would
not even remember any detail. Even though when you wake up it is as if the entire dream is in your
consciousness. But within milliseconds, the whole dream is forgotten. This is a type of dream that
is from ourselves. This dream we ignore, we literally throw it out the window, we have nothing to do
with it. It is our own imagination, nothing wrong with it, and nothing that we have to base our
religion on. The second type of dream is what we call an English a nightmare. And a nightmare is a
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dream that is from shavon ha fun, an evil jinn. That nightmare serves the purpose of frightening the
believers, frightening a person. So shaytaan throws into us whispers into us, evil, frightening,
disgusting images. And the sign of a nightmare is that you wake up terrified, having seen an utterly
disgusting or frightening dream. This is the sign of a nightmare. And a nightmare is from shavon
100%. Allah subhana wa Taala never shows you something in a dream in which you wake up terrified of
this world, terrified of an accident, terrified of a death of yourself or a loved one. This is from
shavonne this is never from Allah. And if it is from shaytaan it means that it is not real. It is
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meant to scare you. That's the entire purpose of a nightmare. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam gave us
many guidelines, if we see a nightmare. He said this is from shaytaan we shouldn't tell anybody, not
even your closest friends, not even your spouse. Don't tell anyone because it is fictional.
Secondly, don't act upon it. If it's not real, we don't act upon it. For example, suppose somebody
saw himself in an evil crush and evil car accident disgusting. He saw himself in a very bad car
accident, and he wakes up terrified. The next day, he should still go to work the way he goes to
work if it's in his car, he goes to work in his car should not change his plan, because of the
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nightmare to change your plan because of a nightmare means that you are falling prey to the
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the purpose of shaytan is to try to cause an effect in your life. And by listening to this whisper
shaitaan becomes happy that yes, this person has basically been irritated by what I have done.
Remember, nightmares have no reality. They are not true. They are Figment not even your imagine a
nation of shape pawns imagination, so a nightmare is never ever acted upon. And the third type of
dream, which is the actual dream that is important and these are the type of dream that use of Allah
has seldom had. The third type of dream is a dream that Allah azza wa jal gives us it is a dream
from Allah. In Arabic, we call it ruya. Whereas the nightmare in Arabic is called shalom or lamb.
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And these are different words in Arabic and English. We don't really have these nuances. So we can
just say a nightmare is a type of dream from chiffon. And then there is a good dream, there is a
pious and righteous dream. How do we know a righteous dream? Well, obviously, a righteous dream does
not terrify us of this world. It doesn't terrify us of, of anything of this world. Realize if a
person wakes up terrified of the Hereafter, he sees something in the hereafter. And this encourages
him to be a better Muslim. This dream cannot be from shape one. The purpose of shaitaan is to
terrify you from this world to terrify, you have a physical calamity. If somebody witnesses a dream
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that makes him a bit fearful of let's say the punishment of the grave, or of standing in front of
Allah. This is a good dream because it makes him a better Muslim. It doesn't terrify him in a bad
way. It terrifies him of his own sins and this could be from Allah also.
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Secondly, a dream from Allah it remains in your memory unlike the first category of dreams which you
forget about. So a dream from a lot remains in your memory, you wake up and you see something and
you remember very clearly that you saw such a dream.
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The dreams of all the prophets are from Allah. prophets never dream, the first type of dream or the
second type of dream. prophets never dream dreams from their own imagination, nor does shaytaan have
the capacity to inflict upon them his whisperings. Therefore, whatever a prophet sees is a true
dream means it is from Allah subhanho wa Taala. Hence, remember the dream of the Prophet Ibrahim
alayhi salam, he saw himself in a dream sacrificing is married. And when he saw this in a dream, he
fully realized that this is from Allah, and it must be implemented. Now if another person sees such
a dream. This cannot be from Allah, because the dreams of man are one of three categories. And Allah
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does not give way to people, even though he gives true dreams to them. But true dreams are not meant
to be acted upon in a legal sense. Rather, they are indications from Allah subhanho wa Taala, that
have some type of symbolic purpose and as we said, the dreams of the prophets all of them are from
Allah. In one Hadith the Prophet sallallahu Sallam said, Nothing is left of prophethood except newb,
except a good dreams and good dreams, he said, or one over 46th part of profit, if profit is 46
categories, 46 parts. One part is that of a true dream. Now somebody will say, Where did this
strange fraction come from? One over 46 is a very strange fraction. The response is, if we look at
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the life of the Prophet system himself, how many years was he inspired? 23, exactly. From the age of
40 until 63, this is 23 before the inspiration began, and the inspiration began in Ramadan of the
first year of the Dharma, before the inspiration began, Isaiah tells us for six months, every night
the profitsystem would see a dream that would tell him what's happening the next day, one incident
you would see one encounter one something he would see, that would tell him what is happening in the
next day, and that would become true. So for six months, an indication was given to him that
something is about to happen. And that thing was a revelation of the Quran. And the Quran was real
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for 23 years, put six months over 23 that's 0.5 half a year over 23 and you get the fraction one
over 46. So true dreams are from Allah subhanho wa Taala. And they are meant to be thought about and
pondered and interpreted and then acted upon, if we are certain it is from Allah and as we said, the
dreams of all the prophets are from Allah, we need to take a short break inshallah Tada, when we
come back, we will continue talking about the dream of use of it he said on stage with us learn
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Welcome back. So we were saying that Yusuf Ali his Salaam told his father of this dream that he had
seen, and we said that the dreams of all the prophets are real. What was this dream? He said? Yeah,
Betty Oh, my dear father, in Nero 82. I had Ashoka. I saw 11 stars was Shams said will come up and
the sun and the moon are at home Lisa g Dean. I saw these 11 stars and the sun and the moon
prostrating to me. Now iacobelli his solemn his father knew the interpretation of this dream. And
use of Elisa Lam did not know it at this age, he was still too young. Allah azza wa jal taught him
the interpretation later on. And it came true. At the end of the story of pseudo use of what was the
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interpretation? The interpretation is that these 11 stars symbolize his brothers, and the sun and
the moon symbolized his parents. Now here there are a number of minor issues here. Firstly,
according to many of the scholars that history historians used to finding his name, his mother had
already passed away. user's mother had passed away she had died. And she had given Yahoo
alehissalaam two sons now remember that in those days, and in those days as well? Yeah, yeah. The A
man can have more than one wife. So Yahoo had more than one wife and so one
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of his wives had given birth to two children. And those two children were useless and his full
brother and the other 10. siblings were from other mothers. So, if his mother had died, how can he
see his mother prostrating to him, scholars of the field have said that even if his mother died,
then his aunt was alive. And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam said his meaning his mother's sister, the
prophet system said, the mother sister is just like the mother, the mother sister takes the status
of a mother. So those scholars who said that the, the mother had passed away, they say what the
interpretation is, is that his aunt would then prostrate to him. And a group of scholars say, well,
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we don't know for sure, she might not have passed away at this stage. And so it was his actual blood
mother. Another interesting facet, many of the scholars thought that the sun represents the mother,
and the moon represents the Father. And many were the other way around that the sun is the father
and the moon is the mother. But this is interesting, because even though the rights of a man
generally speaking are more than that of a woman, the rights of a mother are more than that of the
Father. We all know the famous Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam in which he said, a man comes
to him and says, Who is the one who has the most right of my good companionship of spending my time
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and money and efforts for the profits of them said your mother. He said, Who's next? He said again,
your mother, who's next your mother, and then your father. so strangely enough, even though the man
has a status above women in a legal sense in our religion, still, when it comes to motherhood, the
mothers have a status above that of the fathers. So some scholars said the sun here doesn't
symbolize the father symbolizes the mother she is the brighter she is the more powerful because the
mother has that status. And others said, No, the son is the father and the moon is the mother.
Another interesting facet here is that this opens up the whole concept of dreams in Islam. As we
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said, a dream is one of three types. One of them is from Allah, the One that is from Allah, this
type of dream, sometimes you see exactly what's going to happen, no symbolism. So you see literally
what's going to happen. For example, Ibrahim Alayhi, Salam saw himself sacrificing his marriage. So
he knew this is what Allah wants him to do. But most dreams are not taken at face value. Dreams,
generally speaking, are taken as symbolic. So dreams are taken as being some type of symbols. Every
item you see in a dream represents something else, it is a message that is not clearly given
generally. And that is why interpreting dreams is a science. interpreting dreams is a type of
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knowledge. However, this type of knowledge is not book knowledge. You cannot just open up a book and
read what the book says and then learn dream interpretation. dream interpretation is a science that
comes directly from Allah, Allah blesses people with it. And this is based upon their Eman and
taqwa. Okay. Almost all the sciences of our religion, or academic sciences, they can be taught, you
can go to university take a class in Tafseer, in Hadith, in fifth, take a class in memorizing Quran
reciting Quran all of these are academic sciences, but you cannot take a class and authentic class
of dream interpretation. Why? Because dream interpretation is a pure blessing that Allah gives to
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whomever he pleases of his servants. of the people he gave this to is the Prophet use of Allah His
son of the Prophet Yusuf Islam was able to interpret dreams very fully and accurately. And this was
of the greatest blessings that the Prophet Yusuf Alayhi Salam was given. So used to valleys the lamp
sees the 11 stars which symbolize his brothers and the sun and the moon. He sees them prostrating to
himself. So what does the father say? Or the Yamuna? Yeah, he said, Oh, my dear son, la taco sauce
will yakka acquatic don't narrate your dream to your brother's fire key do laka Qaeda, if you do so,
they will plot against you. They will plan against you in the shade line and insanity I do will move
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Now, one would think that when the father hears this, he would jump for joy, he would say and
hamdulillah What a beautiful dream you saw. But the first thing that jacoba salaam says, Oh my dear
son, keep this dream to yourself. Don't tell your brothers. And from this we learn and our dear
prophet system has told us don't tell dreams to those who might be jealous of you. He said only tell
dreams to your full friends to your relatives whom you can trust. Don't tell dreams to somebody who
might think evil of you or read into them what is not meant to be or feel jealous of you. Good
dreams from Allah should not be announced in public. They should only be told to those whom you can
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confide in and who really and truly respect you.
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Love you otherwise don't tell them. Why? Because they might get jealous. And this was exactly what
Yahoo said I was afraid of. If you tell your brothers this dream, they will get jealous of you that
why are they prostrating to you, and not the other way around? And this shows us, this shows us many
things. Firstly, the evils of jealousy. And this is a recurring theme throughout the surah. Never,
ever be jealous of another person. Never be jealous. Jealousy means, why was he given it? I deserved
it, I should have gotten it. Why was he given it by Allah? This type of jealousy is in fact, a type
of threat to Allah is knowledge. It is as if you are saying, Oh Allah, you didn't act wisely. Allah,
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it is as if you are saying, Why did he give it I was deserving of it? As if you are more
knowledgeable than Allah? Do you control the blessings of Allah? Are you the one who is aware of who
is deserving of what? Of what? don't presume that you know better than Allah to presume This is
basically blasphemy and disbelief. Allah knows best. And he has given every person what is best for
that particular person. Another thing that this shows us is that the father was very well aware of
the mentality of all of his children. He loved all of his children, but he knew that some of them
were not like others use of it his setup, if he told his dream to these brothers, they would
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mistreat him, they would harm him. And that is exactly what happened. of the blessings of this verse
and the benefits of this verse. Notice, even though he says, The brothers will plot against you,
what does he then say? He says, shavon is a clear enemy, not the brothers, because shavon uses small
problems to make them bigger. Suppose a person has a small envy, a small jealousy, a small type of
hatred, she thought will come and make it much bigger, and may cause them to act upon it, and tell
them to do something to harm the other person. So he blames evil on shape on and he doesn't blame
evil upon the brothers. He described shape on as being I do want to be in a clear and open enemy.
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It's not as if it's hidden, even shaytan is your worst enemy. And he has announced the fact that he
is your enemy. shavon has announced as Allah says in the Quran, that I swear by your by your honor
there, Exotica shaitaan says, No, we have no edge marine of a shorty, I will cause all of them to go
astray in the coming human macula scene, except those whom you choose of your service the rest of
them, it is my job shaytaan announces to make them all go astray. So how does shape on do this shape
and does not force us shaytan does not is not like a puppet that he controls us. All shaytaan does,
he whispers he entices he makes these small faults much bigger. And so these whisperings from
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shaitaan come into our heads until we want to act upon them. Not anybody nobody forces us she
thought does not force us but shaitan makes the evil appear good to us. So jacoba his setup does not
blame the brothers. rather he blames shaytaan. Allah then says what can you do to be called a Booker
where you will come into reading a hadith and this is how Allah subhana wa tada will prefer you will
raise your ranks and He will teach you the interpretation of dreams when you Timonium better who
alayka while earlier and he will perfect his blessings upon you and upon the children of your code.
Just like he perfected it upon your two fathers before Ibrahim and his half meaning your
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grandfather's verily your Lord is all knowing and all wise. In this verse, Allah tells us that the
purpose of this dream was to show the status of use of what can be called a book. This is how your
Lord will prefer you will raise your ranks. How? By teaching you the interpretation of dreams. When
Allah wants to bless somebody with a rank and status, he gives him knowledge. Knowledge is what
separates a person whom Allah has blessed from a person who is derived that blessing the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam said, whenever Allah wants good for somebody, he gives him a knowledge of the
religion. If Allah was good for you, you get knowledge of this religion. So Allah says we wanted to
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prefer you wanted to raise your ranks, how? By teaching you something you didn't know, by giving you
knowledge of the interpretation of dreams. And Allah says and he wanted to perfect his blessings
upon you and upon all of the children of Yahoo. Just like he perfected his blessings upon your two
fathers before his help and Ibrahim, so Allah is saying, Oh use of you are continuing in the ranks
of very noble people, your father Yaqoob and his father is how can you bring him Allah gave them all
blessings and perfected his blessings upon them. So Allah is perfecting his blessing.
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upon you as well by showing you this dream and by raising your ranks and status. And Allah concludes
this verse by saying the very least your Lord is ideal. And Hakeem yodas Allium, he knows best who
receives what your Lord is Eileen, he is aware of all things. Your Lord is ideal. He knows what
Ibrahim was given and it's half an hour ago and what you will be given and your Lord is, Hakeem,
your Lord is all wise. He only does something with a wisdom. Whatever Allah does, there is a divine
purpose and wisdom or use if you're going to face trials, you're going to face tribulations. Allah
is Hakeem. Allah knows why this is happening. There is a wisdom in everything that happens to you,
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even if you don't see it, or Muslim. If you believe in Allah, put your trust in it. And Hakeem, put
your trust in the one who knows everything and who has a divine wisdom, even if you don't
understand, Allah knows why everything is happening to you. This brings us to the conclusion of
today's episode, inshallah Tada. In our next episode, we will continue talking about the story of
the Prophet Yusuf Alayhi Salaam. I hope to see you then until next time, Assalamu alaikum,
warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu lafonda, ganas de la