What is your opinion on books of dream interpretation?
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Question:
Yes, he asks: What is your opinion on books that interpret dreams?
Answer:
They are not authentic. That is, one takes a book, such as the one attributed to Ibn Sirin, or the one attributed to 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi. These are not relied upon for dream interpretation, because the interpretation of dreams is not established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the hadiths. Rather, the interpretation of a dream is the ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) of the interpreter, an intuition of the interpreter. He may be correct in it, or he may be wrong. Therefore, one does not rely on what is in the books that contain dream interpretation, because dreams differ, the people differ, and the circumstances differ.
Yes, he asks: What is your opinion on books that interpret dreams?
Answer:
They are not authentic. That is, one takes a book, such as the one attributed to Ibn Sirin, or the one attributed to 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi. These are not relied upon for dream interpretation, because the interpretation of dreams is not established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the hadiths. Rather, the interpretation of a dream is the ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) of the interpreter, an intuition of the interpreter. He may be correct in it, or he may be wrong. Therefore, one does not rely on what is in the books that contain dream interpretation, because dreams differ, the people differ, and the circumstances differ.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6538- ما رأيكم في كتب تفسير الرؤى؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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