Dreaming and Islam

[Mornings Son]

Here is a part of an article on dreaming and islam.


I find it rather interesting as it talkes about inspiration from Spirit(allah) in dreaming. What do you think?




But for many extreme Muslims, dreams are a far more serious affair. The Prophet Mohammed received his message from God - the Koran - after a series of
dreams lasting six months, and there are those who believe that the entire text of the Koran was received by the Prophet in a dream-like trance.

Dreams, in other words, were no mere reflection of the idle human brain but could be a direct communication from God. Dr Iain Edgar of Durham
University's Anthropology Department has sent me the results of his own investigation into this phenomenon, the experience of the "true dream" -
ruya in Arabic - which, he believes, "is a fundamental, inspirational, and even strategic, part of the contemporary militant jihadist movement in the
Middle East and elsewhere."


Describing Islam as "probably the largest night dream culture in the world today," Edgar quotes a hadith (saying of the Prophet) in which
Mohammed's wife Aisha says that the "commencement of the divine inspiration was in the form of good righteous dreams in his sleep ... He never had a
dream but that it came true like bright of day." An 8th-century dream writer from Basra in southern Iraq, Ibn Sirin - who wrote Dreams and their
Interpretation - divided dreams into the spiritual (ruan), those inspired by the devil, and "dreams emanating from the nafs (which means "running,
hot blood") - an earthly spirit that dwells in the dreamer's body and is distinct from the soul."
More of the article here...



http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... _n21215803

[Bob May]

Hi Mornings Son,




" An 8th-century dream writer from Basra in southern Iraq, Ibn Sirin - who wrote Dreams and their Interpretation - divided dreams into the spiritual
(ruan), those inspired by the devil, and "dreams emanating from the nafs (which means "running, hot blood") - an earthly spirit that dwells in
the dreamer's body and is distinct from the soul."




I see no reason to doubt it.


My teacher used to say, "You don't even have a thought of your own." We are inspired by The One Spirit or Holy (Wholly) Spirit, or we are
inspired by A spirit. If that is true for our thoughts (and I have no reason to doubt that either) then it also goes for dreams.


We human beings are described as clay vessels in scripture. It brings to my mind the idea of empty vessels (containers) waiting to be filled.


We decide what we are filled with consciously or unconsciously by what we "attune to." It is all vibrations and harmonics. What we attune to is what
we draw to us.


It would be easy to make someone an Islamic extremist. You just get them at an early age and drum into their minds that the rest of the world are devils and
they are doing God's work by exterminating them.


Jesus even warned his disciples of this;




"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.


They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh,


that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."




But it goes for everyone, not just extremists. What you attune to in life becomes the dreams and thoughts that ensoul you and surround you.




To change your life for the better, you need to change your vibrations. What you attune to. What you are surrounded by. What you think.


This will draw better things to you.


These are invisible connections. If I play a loud A note on a musical instrument in the corner of my room, the A string on my guitar standing in the
opposite corner of the room will vibrate. There is no "apparent" connection there.


The same is true on psychic and spiritual levels. That is why we should learn to control our emotions. Emotional intensity is the amount of wattage we
are sending out, while likes and dislikes are the "tuner" deciding where we are sending to or recieving from.




There are many instances in scripture where dreams are direct communication from God or His angels. Both Josephs in the Bible were dreamers and both
recieved knowledge of the future in dreams to warn them what to do to avoid or take advantage of trouble to come.


Some serial killers also recieve messages in dreams.


Some inventors and songwriters and artists recieve ideas in the same way.




The differences in what you will recieve whether in dreams or meditation or waking life is what you attune to.




Paul, in the New Testament said;


"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."




Good advice on what to attune yourself to.

[spareenergy]

In a book about Islam Tasavvuf and related proverbs , it says that in tasavvuf ,there are those who give importance to Esma(
accepting the path of saying a particular name of Allah a particular of time, at a particular time then telling his dreams to his sheih .It is
the sheih who deceides which name of Allah is to be said, how many times and so on. Zikir is the saying of a name of Allah. In this book it
mentions even 70,000 times of saying it. One has to do it in a place where he is not going to disturbed. In tasavvuf there are those who go thorough another
path called Melamet. They don't deny the importance of dreams but they think that most of the dreams are of projections of wishes of the
self and call such dreams "sleep ****".

I have friend who says he went to the dergah for 5 years.It is where they learn about their path. At a moment of our conversation I asked him
"What do you do?"(meaning "What do you do to move your asseblage point ?") He said, "I do zikir." At another
time he was talking about the dergah,as I understand they use a musical instrument called tef , at the same time they are doing zikir. He said that he
sees the same thing the sheih sees.What he described was like the left shift. He mentioned that not everyone sees the same thing(maybe some see nothing. ) He
is not attending the dergah anymore,I don't know the reason,but he said he is still using the tef and that he does not care what people think of him when
they see him playing it(they will think that he is an Islam extrimist ) and the zikir he mentioned as if it is the only thing of importance that could be done.

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