Dream Interpretation

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an iron hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of the man's mouth and tear off that side Sayyid Muḥammad Rezā, Ufaq-i Mustabil (Horizons of the Future) (Karachi: Idāra-’Ulūm-si Āl-i Muḥammad, 1989), p. 6. Katherine P. Ewing. “The Dream of Spiritual Initiation and the Organization of Self-Representations among Pakistani Sufis,” American Ethnologist 17 (1990): 56–74.

Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tiflisī, Ta‘bīr-i khwāb-i Ibn Sīrīn-o-Dāniyāl (Tehran: Maṭbū‘ātī Ḥusaynī, 1988), pp. 15–17.

Islamic Dream Interpretation Hadiths

In Islam, dreams are considered to be a kind of spiritual perception. The Quran refers to dreams as Ru’yaa (vision), Manam (sleep), Hulum (dream) and Bushra (tidings). And, dream interpretation, also known as oneiromancy, is described using the Arabic terms ‘Tafsir’ or ‘Tabir’ amongst Muslims. Many Islamic dream interpretation theories and observations have been proposed by various Muslim thinkers and philosophers over the past 1500 years. Several of these observations and understandings correspond with the recent theories proposed by modern psychologists. How to interpret dreams in Islam? other side. He hardly completed this side when the other side returned to its normal state. Then he If the Holy Book is snatched away from someone’s hands in a dream, it means that he will lose his knowledge, or perhaps lose his employment.

reached the man, his head returned to the normal state. The thrower then did the same as he had done Pir Vilayat Khan, “C. G.Jung and Sufism,” in Sufism, Islam and Jungian Psychology, ed. J. Marvin Spiegelman (Scottsdale, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 1991), pp. 35–53. Muntakhab al-Kalām fī ta‘bīr al-manām, ed. ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jūzū (Beirut: Dār Maktaba al-Ḥayāt, n.d.), the longer text, was actually written by al-Dārī (ca. 1009–1237). See also John Lamoreaux, “Some Notes on the Dream Manual of al-Dārī,” Rivista degli studi orientali 70 (1996): 47–52.If a person sees the same dream multiple times or multiple people see the same dream, then it is a sign of truth and the dream is a true vision. write of the Gospels in Arabic as much as Allah wished him to write. He was an old man and had lost

both! Let me enter it.' They replied, 'As for now, you will not enter it, but you shall enter it (one day). Whoever wants to have true dreams should strive to speak honestly, eat halal food, adhere to the commandments of shari’ah, avoid that which Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) have forbidden, sleep in a state of complete purity facing the Qiblah, and remember Allah until he feels his eyelids drooping. If he does all this, then his dreams can hardly be untrue. anybody after that." She added, "Later I saw in a dream, a flowing spring for `Uthman. So I went to

Islamic Dream Interpretations FAQs

smile, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)?" He said, "Some of my followers were presented before me in my dream as true) dreams in his sleep. He never had a dream but that it came true like bright day light. He used to

Interpretation in the light of the Sunnah: such as the crow representing an immoral man (fasiq), because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) called it such. Sara Sviri, “Dreaming Analyzed and Recorded: Dreams in the World of Medieval Islam,” in Dream Cultures: Toward a Comparative History of Dreaming, eds. Guy G. Stroumsa and David Shulman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 252–273. Sviri discusses al-Tirmidhī specifically pp. 261–268. The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was in the form of good righteous Towards the end of time, hardly any dreams will be untrue. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “That will be because the prophethood and its effects will be so far away in time, so the believers will be given some compensation in the form of dreams which will bring them some good news or will help them to be patient and steadfast in their faith.” (al-Bukhari, 6499; Muslim, 4200) angels) said to me, 'This place is the Eden Paradise, and that is your place.' I raised up my sight, and

There are certain things that should be kept in mind by the Muslims attempting to interpret a dream. Following are some rules of Islamic dream interpretation: