Topic of Dreams in the Qur'an

Set of References for Learning How to Differentiate between types of dreams

Posted by Mohammad Awais Tahir 

This is a list of Ayaat of Holy Qur'an and the Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad SAW. This set of references will aid us in understanding the subject of dreams better. This set of references has been collected in order to understand better how to differentiate between the different types of dreams.

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Differentiating Between Dreams from Allah, Shaitan and Nafs

Topic of Dreams in the Holy Qur'an

(1) Behold! verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve; Those who believe and (constantly) guard against evil;- For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present and in the Hereafter; no change can there be in the words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme felicity.

(Surah Younus 10:64)

For the explanation of bolded portion see Reference # 11 {It means good dreams that a Muslim sees or is shown them}

(2) Behold! Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me." He said: O my son! do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they devise a plan against you; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man. And thus will your Lord choose you and teach you the interpretation of sayings and make His favor complete to you and to the children of Yaqoub, as He made it complete before to your fathers, Ibrahim and Ishaq; surely your Lord is Knowing, Wise.

(Surah Yusuf 12:4-6)
 

(3) Now with him there came into the prison two young men. Said one of them: "I see myself (in a dream) pressing wine." said the other: "I see myself (in a dream) carrying bread on my head, and birds are eating, thereof." "Tell us" (they said) "The truth and meaning thereof: for we see thou art one that doth good (to all)." He said: "Before any food comes (in due course) to feed either of you, I will surely reveal to you the truth and meaning of this ere it befall you: that is part of the (duty) which my Lord hath taught me. I have (I assure you) abandoned the ways of a people that believe not in Allah and that (even) deny the Hereafter.

(Surah Yusuf 12:36-37)
 

(4) The king (of Egypt) said: "I do see (in a vision) seven fat kine, whom seven lean ones devour, and seven green ears of corn, and seven (others) withered. O ye chiefs! Expound to me my vision if it be that ye can interpret visions." They said: "A confused medley of dreams (مﻼﺣا ثﺎﻐﺿا ): and we are not skilled in the interpretation of dreams."

(Surah Yusuf 12:43-44)

(5) Then, when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him, he said: "O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: Now see what is thy view!" (The son) said: "O my father! Do as thou art commanded: thou will find me, if Allah so wills one practising Patience and Constancy!"

(Surah As Saafaat 37:102)

(6) So We sent this inspiration to the mother of Moses: "Suckle (thy child), but when thou hast fears about him, cast him into the river, but fear not nor grieve: for We shall restore him to thee, and We shall make him one of Our messengers."

(Surah Al Qasas 28:7)

(7) "Behold! We sent to thy mother, by inspiration, the message: "'Throw (the child) into the chest, and throw (the chest) into the river: the river will cast him up on the bank, and he will be taken up by one who is an enemy to Me and an enemy to him': But I cast (the garment of) love over thee from Me: and (this) in order that thou mayest be reared under Mine eye.

(Surah Taha 20:38-39)

(8) And remember when ye met, He showed them to you as few in your eyes, and He made you appear as contemptible in their eyes: that Allah might accomplish a matter already enacted. For to Allah do all questions go back (for decision).

(Surah Al Anfaal 8:44)

(9) Truly did Allah fulfil the vision for His Messenger: ye shall enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah wills, with minds secure, heads shaved, hair cut short, and without fear. For He knew what ye knew not, and He granted, besides this, a speedy victory.

(Surah Al Fath 28:47)

(10) It is He who doth take your souls by night, and hath knowledge of all that ye have done by day: by day doth He raise you up again; that a term appointed be fulfilled; In the end unto Him will be your return; then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.

(Surah Al An'aam 6:60)

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THE QUR’AN DECLARED THAT THE HOLY LAND, INCLUDING JERUSALEM, WAS GIVEN TO THE ISRAELITES

JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

By Imran N. Hosein

PART ONE

Chapter 4

THE QUR’AN DECLARED THAT THE HOLY LAND,

INCLUDING JERUSALEM,

WAS GIVEN TO THE ISRAELITES

“Remember Moses said to his people: O my People! Remember the favour of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. 

“O my people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah gave to you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will you be overthrown, to your own ruin.” 

(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:20-21)

 Daniel Pipes, in his article published in the Los Angeles Times (‘Jerusalem means more to Jews than to Muslims’ July 21, 2000), attempts to dismiss the Islamic claim to Jerusalem by declaring of Jerusalem, among other things, that: “It is not once mentioned in the Qur’an or in the liturgy”.

It is true that the word ‘Jerusalem’ does not explicitly occur in the Qur’an, but that appears to be in consequence of Divine Wisdom. The Qur’an refers to Jerusalem in an enigmatic way (and appropriately so) as a city that was destroyed, its people expelled, and banned from ever returning to reclaim it. The ban would remain in force until such time when Gog and Magog come forth (see Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:95-6.)  The Arabic name for Jerusalem ‘Bait al-Maqdis’ occurs several times in the Ahadith. The Roman name ‘Aelia’ also occurs in a very important prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).

It is amazing, really, that Dr. Pipes should have chosen to ignore those verses of the Qur’an that unambiguously declared that the Holy Land (of which Jerusalem is the very heart) was given by Allah Most High to the Jews. When Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) took the Israelite people out of slavery in Egypt, and they had miraculously crossed the sea and entered Sinai, Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) addressed them and ordered them to make the effort to win control of the Holy Land. He said:

“Oh my people, enter into the Holy Land which Allah gave to you, and do not turn back (since such will be a betrayal of your faith) for then you will be lost (which also includes the loss of the Holy Land).”

“They replied: Oh Moses, there are ferocious people dwelling in that land, and we will not enter it unless and until they depart from it. If they leave, then we will enter it”(see also: Numbers 13:32-33).

“Then spoke two God-fearing men (Joshua and Caleb according to the Torah) who had been blessed by Allah: Enter upon them by the gate (i.e., make a frontal attack) for if ye enter by it, lo! You will be victorious. So put your trust (in Allah) if ye are indeed believers.”

(Qur’an, al-Maida, 5:21-23)

The Jews responded to Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) with an answer that was so insulting that Allah Most High immediately prohibited their entry into the Holy Land:

“They said: O Moses! We will never enter (the Holy Land) while they are in it. So go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will sit here. He said: My Lord! I have control over none but my brother and myself so hold us apart from these sinful rebellious people.

“(Their Lord) said: For this (act of betrayal) the land (i.e., the Holy Land) will surely be forbidden them for forty years. They will wander in the earth (Sinai) bewildered. So grieve not (Moses) over these sinful rebellious people.”

(Qur’an, al-Maida, 5:24-6)

The Qur’an actually reconfirmed elsewhere the declaration that the Holy Land was given to the Jews:

("Pharaoh) sought to wipe them [the Israelites] off the face of the earth. But We (Allah) drowned him (Pharaoh) together with all who were with him. Then We (Allah) said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in security in the land (i.e., the Holy Land)’…”

(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:103-104)

and again:

“Whereas unto a people who (in the past) had been deemed utterly low (and of no account), We gave as their heritage the Eastern and Western parts of the (Holy) Land that We had blessed. And (thus) the fair promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy in adversity, whereas We utterly destroyed all that Pharaoh and his people had wrought and all that they had built (with such pride).”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:137)

Again it amazes me that Jewish and Zionist scholarship should so studiously have avoided quoting these plain statements in which the Qur’an declared that the Holy Land was given to the Jews:

“Oh my people enter into the Holy Land which Allah gave to you….”

“Then We (Allah) said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in security in the (Holy) Land’….”

“We gave as their heritage the Eastern and Western parts of the (Holy) Land that We had blessed.”

Our readers who sincerely seek the Truth in respect of the subject of the destiny of Jerusalem should ponder over this reluctance on the part of Euro-Jewish, Zionist and Israelite scholarship to refer to the Qur’an on this matter.  This book offers an explanation for that strange behavior. The explanation resides in their reluctance to reveal the corruption of the divine conditions in the Torah which Allah Most High had ordained for inheritance of the Holy Land. The fraud in the rewritten Torah is exposed in the Qur’an. What was that fraud?

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

to be continued....

Zionist Jewish Strategy - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

Zionist Jewish Strategy

One dimension of the over-all Zionist-Jewish strategy has been the attempt to control Israel’s strategic environment through cultivating alliances of expediency with a corrupt, permanently rich, predatory and godless elite who now control the Arab Muslim communities around Israel on Israel’s behalf. That elite is forced to maintain friendly ties with Israel in order to maintain their position of power, dominance, privilege and wealth. Those Jews who are supporters of the State of Israel constantly put pressure on that elite to so oppress Muslims that they would either be forced into submission to Israel, or their opposition to Israel would pose no threat to the Jews. When Israel escalates its oppression in the Holy Land and the Muslim Arab masses become enraged then that ruling elite is forced, as a matter of survival, to adopt a posture of anger against Israel.  This Jewish-Arab (elite) strategy has today reached an advanced stage of implementation. … it is the strategy of a people who have essentially abandoned the ethical heart of the religion of Abraham (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). The Zionist-Jewish strategy requires that they one day abandon that Arab elite… Indeed the strategy of abandoning that Arab elite has already begun. Even as we write Israel is preparing for a war with the Arab Muslims that would result in an expansion of the territory of the Jewish State. Israel would then rule the entire region as the Ruling State in the world (i.e., replacing USA as the Ruling State).

In response to all such Jewish strategies that seek to defy Allah Most High and the believers, and to subvert destiny, the Qur’an ominously declared:

 “And they (the Jews) plotted and planned, and Allah too plotted and planned, and Allah is the best of plotters and planners.” 

(Qur’an, Ale Imran, 3:54)

That strategy was successful in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia , all of which are client states of a godless USA. But that strategy has not succeeded in the Holy Land. Nor has it succeeded in Syria  and Yemen.

Readers of this book may wish to reflect over the prayer of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) who prayed as follows:

 

“Narrated by Ibn Umar: The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: O Allah! Bestow Your Blessings on our Sham (Syria) and our Yemen. People said: Our Najd (Najd is that part of Saudi Arabia from which the Saudi rulers have originated). The Prophet again said: O Allah! Bestow Your Blessings on our Sham and Yemen. They said again: Our Najd as well. On that the Prophet said: There will appear earthquakes and afflictions, and from there (i.e., Najd) will come out the side of the head of Satan.”

The Jewish State of Israel has completed 50 years of existence. But that is certainly not an achievement “against the odds” as the Jews would have us believe. An essentially godless Zionist Movement conned Banu Israil with a mountain of lies! One such lie was the false slogan “a land without people for a people without land”.

If the Arabs are not ‘people’, if they are just ‘grasshoppers’ as former Israeli Prime Minister Shamir once declared, did they not permit the Jews to dwell amongst them for more than two thousand years? The Arabs guaranteed to the Jews security of life and property while they lived amongst them in the Arab lands for more than two thousand years. The Arabs did all of this and more at a time when Europeans had closed their doors to Jews, or had reluctantly allowed them to live in ghettoes. Arabs did this because they still possessed a ‘remnant’ of the religion of Abraham that had come to them with Ishmael (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). That ‘remnant’ of the Truth had taught them to show hospitality. To this day the hospitality of the Arab has survived. The same religion of Abraham should have taught those Jews to show gratitude to hospitable ‘grass-hoppers’.

Zionism argued that Truth, in Judaism, had conferred on the Jewish people ‘exclusive’, ‘eternal’ and ‘unconditional’ title to the Holy Land. Zionism argued that restoration of the Jewish State of Israel, destroyed by Allah Most High some 2000 years ago, validated Judaism’s claim to (an imperialist version of) Truth. After all, had the Torah not proclaimed: “every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours”(Deuteronomy, 11:24)? For fifty years since the birth of Israel the world has watched in amazement the calamitous threading of Jewish ‘footsteps’ in an ever-expanding Israel. That expansion has not as yet ceased. Despite the ‘appearance’ that Israel is besieged and is circling her wagons to better protect herself from an Arab onslaught, the ‘reality’ at the time that this book is being published (after the destruction of the Jenin refugee camp and the slaughter of so many more Arabs) is that Israel is preparing to unleash a major war on the Arabs through which the frontiers of the Jewish State would dramatically expand to embrace the Bibilical Holy Land, i.e., “from the river of Egypt (and this implies control over the Suez Canal) to the River Euphrates (and this implies control over all of the Gulf oil with the possible exception of Iran’s oil. Europe, Japan and much of the rest of the world are dependent on that Gulf oil).” That war, which would be planned with meticulous care, would also witness Israel replacing USA as the ‘Ruling State’ in the world.

And so, from a Biblical perspective, the Jewish success in restoring the State of Israel and in then expanding the territory of the State, in addition to Jewish control over the holy city of Jerusalem, certainly appears to validate Judaism’s claim to Truth.

Our question is: How was this achieved without the Messiah? The answer is that it was achieved through the deception of a False Messiah (al-Masih al-Dajjal)! 

Again, the inescapable implication of the apparent success in restoring the Biblical Israel was the validation of the Jewish claim that Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them both) were both impostors.

But in order for Israel to be created, Judaism had to hitch its wagon onto the newly emergent, essentially godless and decadent modern western civilization. That godless western world established its authority as the peerless dominant actor on the stage of the world, “descending on mankind from every height” or “spreading out in all directions”(Surah al-Anbiyah, 21:96) to control all the sea, land and air. Nor could the Jewish State have survived these fifty years but for the active assistance of that all powerful but godless and decadent West.

Those Jews who support the State of Israel acclaimed what appeared to them to be the restoration of Biblical Israel, but they conveniently ignored the great injustices and oppression inflicted upon a hapless Palestinian people - Christian as well as Muslim - whose only sin appears to have been their residence in the Holy Land (of the Jews). That injustice and oppression has been constantly increasing these 50 years. Our question to such Jews is this: Is a valid claim to Truth compatible with such godlessness, decadence, injustice, racism, and oppression? Can a people ‘hitch their wagon’ to an essentially godless train and still claim to be faithful to the God of Abraham?

The Zionist-Jews argued that they did not drive the Palestinian people out of their homes - rather they left themselves. Well then, why did those Jews not preserve their homes for them as a sacred trust, and why did they not invite them to return to their homes? Instead the Jews have persisted for fifty long miserable years in obstinately denying them the ‘right of return’ to the homes. 

Israel’s wicked oppression continues to intensify every day. Israel will soon reach the pinnacle of ‘false’ glory when she becomes the Ruling State in the world. However, this book declares that the world is witnessing the beginning of the end for the Impostor Jewish State of Israel! Jews should not blame Zionism for the plight in which they now find themselves. All that Zionism ever did was to exploit every single lie that was put into the Bible  by embellishing those lies with a mountain of more lies.

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

to be continued....

To Christians With Love - FOURTH PHASE

FOURTH PHASE: The dynamics of the relationship between the Christians and the Jews started to change, slowly but steadily, after the invasion of Spain by the Muslims in 712 CE. During the battles between Arab and Spanish armies, the Jews of Spain helped and supported the Muslims, and, consequently, after the establishment of the latter’s rule in Spain, they enjoyed an unprecedented respite of peace and prosperity after more than a thousand years of humiliation and persecution. Thus, Jewish historians like Abba Eban and Solomon Grayzel have acknowledged and recognized their “Golden Age of Diaspora”, that is, the period of Jewish prosperity and growth in Muslim Spain.  

After the end of Arab rule in 1492, and the consequent expulsion of the Jews from Spain by its new Christian rulers, they were given refuge and asylum in the Ottoman Empire, Large populations of Jews continued to prosper peacefully in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt, during the time when their brethren were suffering heavily in Europe, particularly in the Russian Lands.

Source: To Christians With Love (Book by Dr. Israr Ahmed)