A man from among our brothers, of whom we know nothing but good, saw a dream that the moon was eclipsed like this.
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The questioner : A man from among our brothers, meaning we know nothing about him but good, though we do not declare him pure before Allah, saw a vision that the moon was eclipsed. He saw in his sleep that the moon was eclipsed. There was a man in the mosque who took an interest in this matter and stood up to call the people, reminding them of Allah. But there were some people causing disturbance and making a commotion. The man who saw the dream started saying, "O people, fear Allah, leave..."The Shaykh : ...reminding you of Allah. Look at this verse now. He got heated up with them in the discussion and the argumentation. They were saying to him, "You are shouting... let the boys play and let..." We could not silence them, until he woke up from his sleep. So what is this?
The Shaykh :[Yusuf 12:44] .
The questioner : Some of the brothers have, meaning, some words.
The Shaykh : This is what... good.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : I hope it is good. And I do not permit myself to interpret dreams for two reasons. The first reason is that I have learned from the collection of hadiths regarding dreams that every vision a Muslim sees is susceptible to being one of three things: either it is a vision from Allah, or it is a vision from Satan, a vision from Satan’s manipulation of human beings, or the third and last is the talk of the self. Yes?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The third and the second are, obviously... out of the scope of investigating their interpretation. The first...
The questioner : The one from Allah.
Another questioner : Yes, the one from Allah.
The Shaykh : But when a person comes and relates a dream to me, I have no knowledge by which to distinguish which of the three categories this vision belongs to. I cannot rule that it is from the first category rather than the second and the third. Then, even if it were distinguished for me by circumstances, I have no knowledge of interpretation. So this is the first reason. The second reason is: it was said—according to what is transmitted from some of them—"Whoever sees a lesson in another’s dream, let him take the lesson." When I was studying Hanafi jurisprudence with some Hanafi jurists in the mosque, after the Fajr prayer... there were three or four students, no more. An old woman would enter and come behind...The Shaykh : ...and whisper to him something we could not understand what she was saying... sometimes, we would hear his answer...The Shaykh : ...and we did not understand this woman, but we would infer from his answer...The Shaykh : ...that she had related a dream to him. So we would hear his answer...The Shaykh : ...was routine; meaning, always as a fixed rule, whatever the dream that was related to him, it seemed that... so give charity on her behalf. That is the interpretation of the dream! It means he was too shy to say:[Yusuf 12:44] So he would do good and say, "Give charity on her behalf!"
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The Shaykh :
and we are not learned in the interpretation of dreams."
ما نحن بتأويل الأحلام بعالمينThe questioner : Some of the brothers have, meaning, some words.
The Shaykh : This is what... good.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : I hope it is good. And I do not permit myself to interpret dreams for two reasons. The first reason is that I have learned from the collection of hadiths regarding dreams that every vision a Muslim sees is susceptible to being one of three things: either it is a vision from Allah, or it is a vision from Satan, a vision from Satan’s manipulation of human beings, or the third and last is the talk of the self. Yes?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The third and the second are, obviously... out of the scope of investigating their interpretation. The first...
The questioner : The one from Allah.
Another questioner : Yes, the one from Allah.
The Shaykh : But when a person comes and relates a dream to me, I have no knowledge by which to distinguish which of the three categories this vision belongs to. I cannot rule that it is from the first category rather than the second and the third. Then, even if it were distinguished for me by circumstances, I have no knowledge of interpretation. So this is the first reason. The second reason is: it was said—according to what is transmitted from some of them—"Whoever sees a lesson in another’s dream, let him take the lesson." When I was studying Hanafi jurisprudence with some Hanafi jurists in the mosque, after the Fajr prayer... there were three or four students, no more. An old woman would enter and come behind...The Shaykh : ...and whisper to him something we could not understand what she was saying... sometimes, we would hear his answer...The Shaykh : ...and we did not understand this woman, but we would infer from his answer...The Shaykh : ...that she had related a dream to him. So we would hear his answer...The Shaykh : ...was routine; meaning, always as a fixed rule, whatever the dream that was related to him, it seemed that... so give charity on her behalf. That is the interpretation of the dream! It means he was too shy to say:
and we are not learned in the interpretation of dreams."
ما نحن بتأويل الأحلام بعالمين...
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