Zia Sheikh – eams of the Prophet are Real
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The speakers discuss the pride of Islam, recognizing individual qualities and benefits, including those who become Muslims. They also touch on the idea of a dream that is linked to satisfaction and pride, and how it can be used to make people sad. They stress the importance of privacy in relation to privacy and discovery, and discuss the use of dreams as a signal of honor and respect.
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The most noble is Yusuf A.S. who
was the son of the Prophet of Allah,
meaning Yaqub A.S. who was the son
of the Prophet of Allah, which was Ishaq
A.S. who was the son of Khalilullah,
meaning Ibrahim A.S., four generations of Prophets,
subhanallah, four generations continuously of Prophets.
So if you can imagine the honor that
Yusuf A.S. has been bestowed with that
he is the fourth in the line of
Prophets and his great great grandfather is who,
none other than Ibrahim A.S., Abu'l
-Anbiya, the father of Anbiya A.S. So
from that perspective obviously Yusuf A.S. he
is the most noble of humans.
So the Sahaba they went on to say
that we are not asking you about that.
So the Prophet A.S. understood that they
were asking about their own people.
Are you asking me about the tribes of
the Arabs?
So they said, then the Prophet A.S.
said that the best of the people in
Islam are the ones that were the best
in Jahiliyyah once they understand.
So this is against a general rule that
we have that people that become Muslim, they
came with certain habits, certain traits, certain things
that they used to implement in their lives
and they used to practice in their lives
that were part of their culture or part
of the religion that they were practicing and
there is nothing wrong with that as long
as there is no shirk or anything like
that being permitted.
So Islam is recognizing those qualities that those
people had even prior to becoming Muslim and
sometimes those same qualities actually lead a person
to Islam.
So the Prophet A.S. said that the
best of the people in Islam were the
best in Jahiliyyah once they understand.
Once they understand meaning, they understand the concept
of Tawheed, they understand the concept of the
obedience of Allah S.W.T., they understand
that the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. is
the last Prophet, then obviously those same attributes,
those same habits, they bring them over to
Islam and they benefit Islam, they benefit the
Ummah and obviously they benefit themselves.
The other thing that we should understand here
is that the dreams of the Anbiya A
.S. are a revelation from Allah S.W
.T. Ibn Abbas S.A.W. said that
the dreams of Anbiya A.S. are a
form of Wahi.
So what was Yusuf A.S. seeing in
this dream?
He was seeing 11 stars, the sun and
the moon and the tafsir of that was
ultimately we find at the end of the
Surah that 11 of his brothers and the
sun and the moon, meaning his parents, they
all prostrate to him at the end of
the Surah.
So the question is that why can a
human prostrate in front of another human being?
Isn't that a form of Shirk?
So the answer to that is that before
this Ummah, before the Ummah of Prophet Muhammad
S.A.W. people used to make Sajdah
to other people and that was permissible and
that was known as a Sajdah of Takrim,
Sajdah of respect, not a Sajdah of Ibadah.
But because this Ummah, it has closed all
doors of Shirk.
Anything that could be comparable to Shirk or
could be understood as Shirk, could be understood
as polytheism, the doors of that has been
closed for this Ummah and we are not
allowed to do anything that could lead us
down that path.
So this Ummah, our Ummah has been forbidden
from doing that type of thing.
But prior to our Ummah, people used to
make Sajdah to each other as a sign
of respect, as a sign of honor and
it was perfectly permissible for them to do
that.
The next Ayah, Yaqub A.S. said to
Yusuf, O my beloved son, do not tell
this dream to your brothers.
So Yaqub A.S. being a Prophet, he
understood exactly what this dream meant.
And obviously the brothers of Yusuf A.S.,
even though they may not have been Prophets,
but they are the sons of Prophets and
it is quite possible that they also can
understand what this dream means.
So Yaqub A.S. said to Yusuf, do
not tell your brothers this dream.
Because he already knew that there was some
kind of sibling rivalry between the brothers, they
were jealous of Yusuf A.S. and therefore
there was a possibility that they could have
harmed him and done him wrong because of
this dream that Yusuf A.S. had seen.
So he said, do not tell anybody this
dream, especially your brothers, do not tell them
this dream.
And I'm going to talk about, Hadith which
talk about how we should regard dreams, I'll
talk about that in a minute.
But the question is that Yusuf A.S.'s
brothers, were they that mean, were they that
bad, that they have been kind of regarded
as the evil brothers of Yusuf A.S.?
So the Fasireen say that they were not
bad in the sense that they wanted to
actually harm Yusuf A.S. or do him
a great deal of harm, why?
Because the discussions that will be mentioned next
week, they started off with the mention of
killing and then they said, okay, we won't
kill him, let's just put him in the
middle of the desert.
And then it went from putting him in
the middle of the desert, which was also
a sure form of destruction, to putting him
in a well from which he could be
ultimately rescued because tribes are passing by and
they would be going to this well to
get water out for their animals and for
themselves.
So for sure somebody is going to pick
him up and take him away.
So the discussion went from one extreme to
at least, okay, put him in a well
where he can be saved and he can
be taken up.
So from this we can understand that they
were not really bad nation in a way
that they wanted to actually kill Yusuf A
.S. or destroy him in any way, shape
or form because they came to that conclusion
that they're not going to kill him, they're
going to leave him in such a situation
where he can be ultimately rescued.
And this is actually a sign that they
were obviously the sons of prophets and the
fact that they had this thought was because
their nature inside them was not the nature
of evil people, they had in them this
good-natured quality that they didn't really want
to kill him.
So what about sibling rivalry?
We understand from this that is something that
is very natural among siblings, brothers, sisters, especially
the older kids when a new addition comes
to the family, a new baby, the oldest
become jealous or if the father is giving
priority to one over the other then the
others become jealous.
So this is something that is completely natural
and this happens.
But as parents we need to try to
make sure that we don't allow that to
happen, we should not show impartiality between our
children.
There is a hadith in which the Prophet
A.S. he was approached by a Sahabi
who said Ya Rasulallah I gave one of
my sons a gift and I would like
you to make a dua of barakah for
the fact that I have given him this
gift.
The Prophet A.S. asked a very simple
question, he said did you give any of
your other sons the same gift?
He said no Ya Rasulallah I didn't.
So then the Prophet A.S. said then
why are you making me a witness to
zulm, oppression.
So this shows that when you are giving
favor, displaying favoritism to one sister or one
brother over the others then this is a
form of zulm against the others.
So favoritism we have to, obviously there is
always an inclination towards loving the youngest one
of the family because it's a new addition,
the baby of the family but it should
be done in such a discreet way that
the others don't feel that they are being
rejected or being ignored.
This is a very important principle that we
need to keep in mind.
Going back to the issue of the dreams,
there are three types of dreams that humans
have and many people email me and ask
me questions about dreams, I'm not an expert
on dreams