Zia Sheikh – Types of Dreams 5192016

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.