Re: Dreams… (I know)
Well, Crabman…there’s close to qiyama…and then there’s closer to qiyama…and then there’s really really close to qiyamah. Dreams are said to be from Allah, from our own thoughts, from shaitan. Why is that so hard to believe?
I’ve MashaAllah had dreams come true. I’ll share an experience with you. There had been some tension between my aunt’s family and mine. My cousins would occasionally talk on the phone with my mom but for the most part they would avoid us. Though we live in different states, there was a time where we’d visit each other regularly…like every year. But after tensions, that came to a halt. I hadn’t seen my cousins in years.
One night…around Fajar time I had a rather vivid dream. Now before I continue with my story, I will tell you that I wasn’t thinking about my cousin. They weren’t on my mind. It had been years since I had moved on from the past hurts and so they were not among my top concerns on thoughts. So, around Fajar I see a vi id dream where I am at some strange outdoors location and my cousin and her husband both try to talk to me; like they’re trying to make conversation and I am reserved with them. Then the scene shifts and we’re at a jewelry store…and the scene changes for the 3rd time and I see myself at my aunts’s home. I am walking down the corridor hall and there’s a voice that say’s “Ab sullah ho jaani chahiye.” I don’t know whose voice that was. This was followed by strange details which I can’t remember. However, when I woke up…I couldn 't shake of this dream. Call it intuition or whatever butI knew that there was “something” to this dream…that it had meaning.
I called up another cousin, whom I’m very close to and shared my dream with her and she told me that there was no significance to it; that I shouldn’t think about it. But, like I said, I just knew there was something special about this dream and I couldn’t shake off that feeling.
I remember on evening of the same day that I had the dream, my sister and I were sitting in the living room when suddenly the phone rang. My mom went to pick it up…and we asked mom who it was…and she said “Baji _______.” My sister and I looked at each other, stunned. Why? It’s because this cousin of mine rarely called. She hardly called, so it came as a surprise. You could imagine how shocked/freaked out I was feeling because it was only that morning that I had dreamt about my cousin. When mom got off the phone, my sus and I asked her why Baji called as it was so unusual. My mom revealed another surprise…
That my cousin said she’ll be visiting us soon. This was also unusual of her. But since that visit, a sullah or reconciliation did take place between our two families. We became closer. And that’s exactly what the voice in my dream said “Ab sullah ho jaani chahiye” which means “A reconciliation should now take place.”
And the person who saw the most dramatic change in relationship was me. This particular cousin, though much older than me, had a strained relationship with me in the past for most of my life. And now MashaAllah/Alhumdolillah we are closer. So what do you think, Crabman?
So the above was a really cool experience that I had MashaAllah/Alhumdolillah…and it is just one of several experiences.