Ok… i was talking to someone who is a bit more religous then me, and i told them that i dont believe that DEAD ppl can come and visit you in your dreams! So they are like i am not a true muslims cuz i dont believe in dreams etc… but like i do believe in dreams, but not that dead people can visit you in your dreams! I don’t know if i am right or wrong…
can someone shed some light and help me understand the picture of believing dreams in ISLAM more clearer? Will i not be considered a true muslim if i dont believe in dreams?
you can see people who have passed away/dead in your dreams .. experience talking ....
yeah ive seen my grandma in my dreams... some people say if u see the last person who passed away in ur dreamz.. it means someone else near u will pass away soon... but im not sure if thats entirely true
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yeah ive seen my grandma in my dreams... some people say if u see the last person who passed away in ur dreamz.. it means someone else near u will pass away soon... but im not sure if thats entirely true
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not true
i dunno some islamic scholars believe its true...
i think there are books about dreams in Islam.. need to get a copy
but as a muslim are we supposed to believe in DREAMS?
check this out Furqan
I believe dreams have meanings, islamically speaking but what they are is left to interpretation by scholars.
I personally have seen my Dad in my dreams I know that when he says something or when he is bringing me somewhere or if he's asking me for something in the dreams. It REALLY does mean something - as for what it means I actually don't wanna find out. Coz I don't wanna be afraid of the future. But truth is I do interpret the dreams myself and don't mention them to others.
Bottom line I don't have doubt if dreams have meanings, but what exactly is the stance on dreams in Islam is what I don't know.
Personally, I think muslims should believe in dreams.
read some psychology books people. sheesh!
Seeing loved ones who have passed away in your dreams is just your way of holding onto something that has been lost already. Such dreams are common and the only message they contain is, you love them a lot and wish they were still around.
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read some psychology books people. sheesh!
Seeing loved ones who have passed away in your dreams is just your way of holding onto something that has been lost already. Such dreams are common and the only message they contain is, you love them a lot and wish they were still around.
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NO!
Being sarcastic or dumb as usual?
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Being sarcastic or dumb as usual?
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Me? Sarcastic I hardly am.
Dumb. Yes usually :D
Tell me about it its like a bad habit, dead people visit me every other day in my dreams, I think they are alive I talk to them and suddenly realize their dead I try to back off because I'm scared but they keep following me and don't understand why, its so bad it keeps me awake for hours at night.
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Tell me about it its like a bad habit, dead people visit me every other day in my dreams, I think they are alive I talk to them and suddenly realize their dead I try to back off because I'm scared but they keep following me and don't understand why, its so bad it keeps me awake for hours at night.
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hey meryam make sure they did not ask you for anything otherwise do some sadqa, khairat. I hope it will work.
sadzz: thanks for the link...it did clear up the picture a bit :)
OK this is very serious, sometime ago i had lost the path and had not prayed for quite some time nor did i recite the quran anymore... So one night in my a white light was all around me, and a voice asked me to pray... Belive me i wanted to look back but it was as if my soul was to scared to....
IN the morning i got up thought nothing of it and went to work, now later that week, i saw another dream in this dream a white couldy figure streached its arm out and asked me "Come pray with me",, Come pary with me"!!! - Now after that one i must say i was spooked... so i started praying and i used to get some strange dreams, very peacful but strange... They were amazing, but then i shared the story with my cousins and the dreams went away!
Any comments on this one? and P.s. to any non-mulsims no i want high ok!!!
Furqan, theres a good book on this. I misplaced it or I would tell you the title.
Essentially there are scholars who say that yes you can meet people that have passed away in your dreams. Their argument is the ayah from the Qur'an about Allah taking the souls of those who sleep and those who have passed away. They also have other arguments. So yes there are many muslims who believe they can meet departed ones in dreams, and then there are those that dont believe that.
Depends on whom you agree with. smile
A human is a biological organism. It has brain, senses, sensors and body.
Just suppose that we only have a properly functioning brain and nothing else. Is brain capable of thought at this stage? The answer has to be no. Why not? Because for brain to function it needs information. Where does it get its information from, which it is supposed to process? It needs senses and sensors so that it could connect itself to the world outside itself. For example, if it has no sense of hearing, it can never know what it is like to hear eg a sound of some sort. Likewise if it has no sense of seeing, it can never know what it is like to see things. Brain has to learn how to use its senses eg eyes and ears. This is why experienced people can recognise differences in things eg hearing wise they can tell what sound corresponds to what thing. Or taste wise what kind of taste corresponds to what thing or smell wise what kind of smell correspond to what thing etc etc. People who are born blind or deaf etc have no idea what seeing is like or what hearing the sound is like.
If one was without all the senses one will be completely unaware of all the things that one learns through senses. This should explain that a human only learns through its senses and no senses would mean one would know nothing at all.
Just as the brain learns to detect the world outside itself through senses so it needs body which it could learn to use to manipulate the world in which it exists ie the interaction between brain and its environment is impossible without these facilities being available to the brain.
This relationship is very important to understand before one could understand what dreams are about. Brain is an information processing unit that also remembers things it deems necessary. For example, the very first time you taste an apple, if you like it, you will remember it for that reason. However, if you tasted something bitter, you will remember that too but for a different reason. Memory is necessary so that we could imagine or remember things to benefit from or prevent any loss they might cause us. Such things are necessary for us to know, for sake of our survival. Just by looking at knife in action we learn that it is dangerous to fool about with it. A child might shove his hand into the fire the very first time he sees it but when it burns him, he will remember it and try not to do the very same again. All this because the experience remained lodged in the memory of the child.
Being capable of remembering things that happened in the past in our life experiences we can project them in our future as well ie we can imagine our future too. Likewise dreams are also an aspect of brain function.
For example, think about why we feel sleepy or sleep? It is because the brain cells are a limited number and so is their activity. So long as we are awake our senses constantly bombard our brain with information and as more and more information is manipulated by the brain, more and more of its cells become energised till the saturation level or threshold is reached. From then on any more information just does not register or that we lose our concentration. In order for the existing information to be processed without any more information coming in into the brain from the outside world the brain must swich off its senses and that gives the brain the time to process the existing information which it already has imported from the senses. As brain functions for this puprose, this activity of the brain could at times result in dreams or imaginations during our inactive state of senses.
There is a state of mind when we are aware of our brain's activities eg when we are awake and see or smell the food. But same could happen the while we are asleep ie we could imagine that we are actaully smelling the food the while we are unaware of our brains activities. So imagination is a unique but powerful function of brain that is not external to the brain but internal to it.
^ very interesting stuff :)
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For example, think about why we feel sleepy or sleep? It is because the brain cells are a limited number and so is their activity. So long as we are awake our senses constantly bombard our brain with information and as more and more information is manipulated by the brain, more and more of its cells become energised till the saturation level or threshold is reached. From then on any more information just does not register or that we lose our concentration. In order for the existing information to be processed without any more information coming in into the brain from the outside world the brain must swich off its senses and that gives the brain the time to process the existing information which it already has imported from the senses.
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In the scientific community, this is simply untrue. The fact is, nobody knows why we need to sleep, the question is still unanswered. Plenty of articles on this if you do the search.