The Etiquette and Rulings of Visions

The questioner : ... and he gave me a sword, and he was wearing white, and he gave me a sword and said, "Kill Aisha with it."

The Shaykh : I mean, the visions are what is currently being directed to Muslims, as happened with the group of Juhayman. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. I wanted to say that there is a hadith, and of course it is authentic, from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he used to say: or he said: In reality, because of this hadith, I personally am not enthusiastic about interpreting dreams, because every man or every person who sees a dream, one out of three is unlikely to be a vision from the Most Merciful. Then, if we assume that that vision is of this first category, many visions do not occur as they were seen, but rather with some interpretation. So who is the one who can interpret a vision with an interpretation that matches reality? It must be, in my belief, an inspired man, as is narrated about Muhammad ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him). So this would be an opening from Allah (Mighty and Majestic). As for it being a science that is studied, and a person can, based on this studied science, interpret every dream that is cast upon him or for which he is asked to provide an interpretation, this is not correct at all. And I know of some experiences in myself and in some of my sheikhs whom I started studying fiqh with. We were studying Hanafi fiqh from the book "Maraqi al-Falah" in a large mosque there in Damascus, and the number of students was very few, meaning twenty-four. We felt that an old woman, wearing the Shari'ah hijab and a niqab on her face, was sneaking in like this... until she came in front ofThe Shaykh : him from the side, from behind, and we heard something like whispering, and then we understood that she was recounting toThe Shaykh : him a vision she had seen, andThe Shaykh : it became like... we heard the answer from him. What kind of vision it was, it seemed that the deceased needed charity, so give charity on his behalf. What a vision! I never heard him issue a ruling with an answer except that it was a matter of charity. And it was as if on the basis: "The end justifies the means." Look... generally we encourage people to do good and the matter is done. This is with regard to what I heard. Completely, I personally, when I was given this gift behind the knowledge, I learned that there is a book called "Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'wil al-Manam" by Shaykh 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, three volumes. So I rushed to the market, and when I saw it, I bought it. I saw that when I see a dream or our brothers recount a story to me, I go back to this dream dictionary. For example, it tells you that if you see rain in such a form, it is interpreted as such, and in such a form, thunder, lightning, vegetables, water, and everything has an answer for it. I go back to the book whenever I see or am told a vision, but I get nothing, because there are very conflicting matters, so you cannot say this is what is intended or that. And the result of that was that I rarely bought a book and let a spider nest on it except this one... So there is no room for controlling the vision if it is of the first category. But without a doubt, I remind people that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) established for us rules and principles, such as if one sees a vision, he is , then if he wants to recount his vision to someone, he recounts it to a sincere man who has knowledge, because he will interpret it for him in a way that benefits with good. Of course, not in the way ofThe Shaykh : Of course, there is a closeness, meaning from the vision. And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: ; for that reason, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) encourages the one who wants to interpret to choose the beautiful meaning suitable for the vision and interpret it, because it will occur as it was interpreted. And because of all these matters, I distanced myself from this topic. So whenever I was asked about a vision that a young man saw, I would say: and we are at ease from this.

The questioner : There is a text... that clarifies that the vision occurs as it was interpreted.

The Shaykh : I do not remember now, I do not remember.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : This is explicit: , and this is one of the hadiths extracted in the first part of "Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah".