Zia Sheikh – Types of Dreams 5192016
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The concept of diss variable dream, scary, and evil is discussed, with diss variable dream being the scariest type. People need to filter out what dream is to avoid it, and "offering" in Arabic means not being like the victim of jealousy and not planning and plotting against others. The shaitan is a closed enemy, and planning and plotting against someone is "offering."
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There are two types of dreams that humans
have.
One type is something that is from his
own psychology.
A person is worried about his job being
laid off.
So he's thinking about that all the time.
So at night he's going to have a
dream about it, okay, that his boss is
telling him, you know, pack up your things
and leave and he wakes up thinking, oh,
it's just a dream, it was a nightmare.
So this is a person's psychology, his mind
that is playing tricks on him and is
making him have these dreams at night.
The second type of dream is from the
shaitan, okay.
So this would be scary dreams, dreams of
snakes and dogs and so on, you know,
monsters, things that a person is scared of,
a person will get that type of dream
and these types of dreams are from the
shaitan or erotic dreams where a person is
engaging in illicit things in his dream, something
that he is not held accountable for because
he's sleeping but, you know, illicit dreams, illicit
relationships that a person has in his dream,
that is also from the shaitan and the
third type of dream is a dream from
Allah SWT where it's a message from Allah
SWT.
So again, you have a one in three
chance of the dream having any meaning at
all but a lot of people, they take
this issue of dreams so seriously, they think
that, you know, anytime I have a dream,
it has to have some kind of message
behind it and that's not necessarily the case
all the time.
Sometimes it will have a message, sometimes it
will not be a message, so a person
needs to filter out what the dream is,
whether it's from his psychology, whether from the
shaitan or it's from Allah SWT.
Now the Prophet SAW, he forbade people from
telling people about dreams, especially when those dreams
are related to, when those dreams are bad
dreams or scary dreams.
The Prophet SAW said, إذا رأى أحدكم ما
يحبه فليحدث به when a person sees something
that he likes in his dream, then he
can tell people about it.
وإذا رأى ما يكره فليتحول إلى جنبه الآخر
but when he sees something that he dislikes,
then he should turn his back.
Basically what it means is, that when he's
sleeping, he's sleeping to the right, he saw
the dream, go face the other direction, and
he should وَالْيَتْفُلْ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثَلَاثًا he should
face the left direction of the bed and
make a spitting action, like this.
And say أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَالْيَتْفُلْ
عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثَلَاثًا وَالْيَسْتَعِذُ بِاللَّهِ مِن شَرِّهَا and
he should ask Allah SWT to protect him
from the evil of that dream.
أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَالْيَتْفُلْ
عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثَلَاثًا وَالْيَسْتَعِذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
وَالْيَتْفُلْ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثَلَاثًا وَالْيَسْتَعِذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ
الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَالْيَتْفُلْ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثَلَاثًا وَالْيَسْتَعِذُ
بِاللَّهِ
مِنَ
الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ He used to tell people to
hide the blessings from people until they had
occurred.
And this is because people tend to become
jealous of a person who is being blessed
with things.
He said, اِسْتَعِينُ عَلَىٰ قَضَاءِ الْحَوَائِجِ بِكِتْمَانِهَا Seek
the help of Allah SWT for fulfilling your
needs by hiding them.
فَإِنَّ كُلَّذِي نِعْمَةٍ مَحْسُودٌ Because every person who
is blessed with any blessing, he is محسود.
Meaning he is, people are jealous of him.
So, to avoid that jealousy, to avoid عَيْن
a person should try as much as possible,
especially if the people around him don't have
the same blessing, don't have the same thing
that he is blessed with and maybe can
never afford to get that thing, a person
should try to hide it and not become
the victim of حَسَد the victim of jealousy
by doing that.
But then somebody might question, وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ
فَحَدِّثِ Allah SWT says in surah Duhha, then
you should proclaim the نِعْمَةِ of your Lord.
So sometimes a person, so this is basically
the two extremes.
One extreme is that you are blessed with
blessings and you just make an open show
of everything that you have.
That's one thing.
And the second thing is or a different
type of attitude is that Allah SWT blesses
you with money, then wear nice clothes, wear
nice shoes and be presentable in society.
Do not dress in a way that is
not befitting of the status that Allah SWT
has given you.
This is what وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثِ means.
That the blessing that Allah has given you,
proclaim it by benefiting from it in this
world.
And again not to the extreme that instead
of wearing a thawb or a pair of
clothes that you could get for a hundred
dollars, you go out and spend six hundred
dollars on a sweater or a thousand dollars
on a sweater.
This is the other extreme.
And this is not, this would be regarded
as israf, extravagance.
إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينَ تَبْذِير This is
another word for extravagance.
Allah SWT says that those people that make
tabdheer are the brothers of shaitan.
So the thing is that تَحْدِيثِ بِالنِّعْمَةِ which
means to proclaim one's blessings, it's good.
But at the same time not to the
extreme that you are just showing off every
single thing that like people tend to do
nowadays on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and
Snapchat, everything.
You get a new piece of jewelry, a
new handbag, a new pair of clothes, a
new car, everything is out there on social
media.
So again this is not appropriate but what
تَحْدِيثِ بِالنِّعْمَةِ means is that use the blessings
of Allah SWT that you've been blessed with
and don't try to kind of act poor
when Allah SWT has given you blessings that
you could use.
Finishing off the ayah inshallah.
Yaqub AS said to Yusuf AS, do not
tell your brothers about this dream.
فَيَكِيدُ لَكَ كَيْدًا Otherwise they're going to make
a plot for you.
So the wording here is very unique.
In Arabic it's supposed to be فَيَكِيدُكَ كَيْدًا
that they're going to make a plot against
you.
But this لَمْ here it means, لَمْ generally
it indicates benefits, منفع.
So the real meaning of فَيَكِيدُ لَكَ كَيْدًا
means that they're going to make a plot
that is going to ultimately benefit you.
So this is the meaning, a very special
meaning that you can derive from the wording
that has been mentioned here.
فَيَكِيدُ لَكَ كَيْدًا instead of فَيَكِيدُكَ كَيْدًا So
it will ultimately benefit you and then we
find at the end of the surah what
happens is Yusuf AS gets this position in
society, becomes royalty and so on.
So ultimately that planning and plotting against him
worked out for his benefit.
And then right at the end, Yusuf AS
says إِنَّ شَيْطَانَ لِلْإِنسَانِ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ Indeed the
shaytan for the human being is an open
enemy.
Open enemy, the shaytan is an open enemy
for the human being.
So the shaytan obviously pushes him away.