¶ Door Number Twenty-Four
¶ Dreams, Thoughts and Imaginations
¶ “I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.”
God Almighty has always spoken to humanity through dreams, sending glad tidings, warnings and prophecies of things to come. Humanity has always been fascinated with dreams and has always tried to interpret the symbolic meanings within them. Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) said that the true dream, or vision, is the final and remaining part of Prophethood. The Qur’an, Gospels and Torah tell the stories of Prophets whose Prophethood revolved around dreams, such as Abraham, Joseph, Jacob and Daniel (PBUT). The importance of dreams is immense, and one of the signs of a true Messenger from God is the ability to interpret dreams. For that reason, we will list in this Door some of the knowledge of dreams that Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) has, as well as dream interpretations which he gave.
¶ Three Types of Dreams
Research and popular culture have long tried to classify our dreams in a variety of ways. From daydreaming to nightmares to lucid dreaming, dreams are a window into our soul and our collective subconscious. According to C.G. Jung, there are primal symbols and universal archetypes within dreams, such as water and the Tree of Life. But how do we discern with certitude? Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) clarified the reality of dreams. He said to me one day concerning dreams:
Dreams don’t have anything to do with faith. What the son of Adam sees while thinking (thoughts and imaginations) or what he sees during the day comes to him at night. It is divided into the following categories, [the first] being true visions and these are the visions or dreams in which you see an infallible or the dreams that an Imam or vicegerent sees. All those types of dreams are always true. [The second] type of dreams are warnings, and there are warning angels who warn people who have the slightest bit of hope in them, even if they are immoral people, or far away from religion and faith. The angels will come and warn them about what they are doing or try to guide them by the dream. The third type can be clarified through this example; if there is a person who has enmity towards one of the believers or towards the Imams in his time or the preferred ones of God, and God wishes to lead them astray, He will cause them to see some things which will reflect their inner.
So, in short, the Imam (From Him is Peace) is stating that our thoughts and imaginations during waking life affect what we see in our dreams. If I am thinking all day about a particular person, I am likely to see them in my dream. Therefore, what we see in a dream does not have to do with how strong of a believer I am, but rather, dreams are often telling us what our minds are preoccupied with. Then the Imam (From Him is Peace) divides dreams into three categories:
- True Dreams: This category includes prophetic dreams that predict the future (such as the dream of Akhenaten which Joseph interpreted, in which he saw that Egypt would have seven years of drought), dreams with glad tidings (such as the dream of Joseph where he sees the planets and the sun and the moon prostrating to him), or dreams with an important life-changing message or command (such as the dream that Abraham (PBUH) had to sacrifice his son).
- Warning Dreams: This category includes dreams that attempt to correct the path of someone who has even a spark of hope within them. For example, the dream that the prisoner had in Surah Yusuf (when he saw the birds eating from his head and Joseph interpreted it to mean that he would be crucified). This was a warning letting him know he would die within days and to prepare himself for that and to fix himself.
- Reflective Dreams: This category of dreams is dangerous as they can often be misinterpreted. For example, there was a man who held enmity towards Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace). He believes him to be false and wants to prove it and he has a dream. In the dream he sees the Imam (From Him is Peace) swimming in dirty water. The man comes the next day and tells the Imam (From Him is Peace) in front of a group of people his dream, in an attempt to discredit him. The Imam (From Him is Peace) reveals the true meaning of the dream and says: “It was not I who was swimming in the dirty water, but it was you, for the person is a reflection of his brother.” The dream was given to the man with a true meaning that cannot be interpreted easily by the dreamer. In fact, the dream only reflected the man’s thoughts. The man was thinking all day and night that Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) is a false Imam and his knowledge is all lies and corrupt. Therefore, what he saw was not the reality of the Imam, but it reflected his own thoughts about the Imam (From Him is Peace).
¶ Dangers of Dream Interpretation
Can dreams be interpreted by anyone? What are the consequences of misinterpreting a dream? One day, in 2015, some believers had asked Aba Michael (PBUH) some questions concerning dreams and dream interpretation.
The questioner asked, “Is it permissible for us to interpret our dreams or personal visions or not?”
Aba Michael (PBUH) said, “No, it is not permissible, but it is allowed that a person says that he understood such and such from the dream.”
The questioner asked, “If it is not allowed, then how do I tell the people that I saw a dream which shows that this religion is the truth? Because then someone might say, you do not have the ability to interpret dreams.”
Aba Michael (PBUH) said, “If the human being asks God about a matter and God responded to him by giving him a vision or dream or inspired him, then that is God’s response to that person who asked, and God gives him as much as his understanding and does not misguide him. God is the Most Merciful and does not misguide His sincere servants.”
During a certain time period there lived amongst us a certain individual. This individual would constantly talk about dreams pertaining to him that other people had. He would go as far as interpreting them and understanding them to mean that he was a Mahdi. I raised this issue to my Father (From Him is Peace).
I said, “In many circumstances the man will interrupt my speech and start changing the topic and say: ‘Listen to this’ and he would play a recording where someone is narrating a dream that they had where he was sitting on a couch next to you and Imam Mahdi (PBUH & His Family) and the rest of the Mahdis in one row. He is making the implication that he understands the dream to mean that he is a Mahdi.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “This dream means that he is close to the hearts of the Mahdis and they love him.”
I said, “I thought it meant that he is at the rank of a Mahdi, like Waqar.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “And why not? He is close (to the Mahdis’ hearts) BUT he is not a Mahdi.”
This shows that one can never interpret dreams of this nature for himself. The interpretation of an infallible is always needed. The individual mentioned above ended up becoming utterly disappointed when finding out he wasn’t a Mahdi and ended up leaving the faith and falling from grace. On another occasion, there was an individual who informed me that he saw a dream where he met Gabriel (PBUH) and Gabriel (PBUH) was telling him things to do. He asked me about this dream, and I asked my Father.
I said, “This brother had a dream in which he saw Gabriel telling him things to do.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “I want to inform you of something very important, which you can tell the people in order that everyone understands. You are the representative of God and their Imam. God will not send down any command to any believer except that you know about it first, and except that it comes through you. The words of the infallible are above every dream, istikhara or sign.”
This means that God will never send someone a dream informing them to claim a rank without the Messenger of God knowing about it or confirming it. So, for example, if we are in the time of Jesus (PBUH), none of the disciples could go and slaughter their child because they saw a dream of it, like Abraham (PBUH) did, without returning to Jesus (PBUH) first to confirm if this is truly what it meant or not. No one in the time of Moses (PBUH) could have a dream that they are a Prophet of God and announce it, without confirming this with Moses (PBUH) first.
¶ Dreams That Cause Doubt
One day I said to my Father, “Some believers or those who claim faith, after believing, have said that they received dreams that go against the religion, and they have come to me asking for the interpretation of the dreams. One of them said that he saw a dream in which he heard a voice say to him that Ahmed Murad is a liar, and another person says he saw a dream with a voice saying that he is being deceived. And then the person said that they only want an interpretation for what they saw, and they do not believe that Ahmed Murad is lying. Another person says that she feels bad because she saw some bad dreams about the Call. One of the dreams is that she saw that the believers were working for a false group, and they are being dragged from one country to another. And another dream she had was of a believer who was telling her: ‘The Imam of the Black Banners that has squares on his head is a fake Imam.’ She said these dreams are causing her to doubt and she asked that I send these dreams to you. I told her: ‘If you really saw these dreams, they are not from God but rather from your own doubting self and from the devil.’ ”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Your response was clear and sufficient. These dreams come from doubt. Whenever a person doubts their religion it opens an opening for the devil to play with them left and right. Whoever doubts this religion needs to review their faith in Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) and the purified Household (Ahlul-Bayt). Certainly, the person who doubts this religion doubts them, doubts their words, and as such they doubt God Almighty.”
I said, “There is no room for doubt in this religion.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “All thanks are due to God. What would they do if the time of the Greater Test came?”
I said, “I have had this question that I wanted to ask you about. My Father, sometimes we hear people claim that they have had dreams against the religion or against you, or istikharas that come out against the religion, etc. Is this God misguiding them or what?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Look son, this has two branches to it, the first is lying (meaning sometimes when people claim they saw these things, they didn’t, and are just lying). The second branch is that when a person wishes that this matter be false or that the religion be false, God gives them what they wish for, hence the verse ‘He misguides whom wills and guides whom wills.’ ”
These doubting dreams obviously fall into the third category of dreams, the reflective dreams. The individual is frightened, doubtful, unsure, looking for any excuse to leave the faith and is constantly thinking about these doubts. Eventually she sees these matters in her dreams and they are not from God but from her own self and the devil. The Imam’s response when he said that whoever doubts this religion doubts God and the Ahlul-Bayt (From Them is Peace) is because Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) and this religion came with the same proofs that all Prophets and Messengers came with, the Will, Knowledge and Calling to the Rulership of God. Whoever doubts in us, for sure should also doubt in Mohammed, Jesus, Buddha (PBUT) and every other Prophet who came. Also, another point is that before a person enters this religion, it is required that he or she ask God about the truthfulness of this religion. Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) has said that he does not want anyone to believe blindly, but rather the individual should research, read, and investigate first before believing. Then after that, they should ask God about us and ask Him to keep them on the straight path and away from misguidance. If they believe that God does not misguide His sincere servants, then when they do believe, the individual should be at peace that they made all attempts to reach God and be upon the truth and now the individual places his or her trust in Him. No God who misguides someone truly seeking Him is worthy of worship. So, if our intentions are clear, the result is guaranteed, we will be upon the truth and only the truth, because God is All-Hearing and All-Knowing. One day in 2015, Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) demonstrated this matter to me.
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “I am going to ask you some questions and answer me. Are you a believer in God? Do you believe that God does not misguide His sincere servants? Are you sincere towards God?”
I said, “Yes, I do not consider anyone who is not sincere, to have done everything that I have tried to do and what I have done.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Then you are sincere, correct? And I am testifying in front of God that you are, and that is a truthful testimony and God knows that without me testifying. My son, what you have come to know, and what you will come to know, what has happened to you and what will happen to you, has happened to other sincere, righteous believers. It happened with me at the hands of my Master Imam Mohammed ibn Al-Hassan Al-Askari (PBUH). Are you going to be patient? Are you going to bear patiently until you receive all goodness and light? Do you think that Imamate comes easily, and the leadership of the nation comes out of thin air? What is your problem then, my son?”
I said, “If the matter is a matter of patience, I am not worried about that, all of time cannot cause me to disbelieve in you or leave you.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “You cannot leave me son, and you will not be able to leave me. Son, you are going to be after me, you must become complete in order that you be infallible. God has made you at this point infallible from the major sins, and He shall make you infallible against all minor sins. Be patient, verily God is with the patient. A day shall come, and life shall run out and this body shall be gone with all its sweet times and sour. The days are running, and God shall enable His vicegerent no matter what the disbelievers want, with us or without us, God shall establish His authority on Earth, and it is enough for a believer that he helps pave the path to the Divine Just State and for God’s rulership.”
I said, “And that won’t happen except with you, my Father, that is the promise of God.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “And I am saying, you are telling the truth, this matter shall not be except that.”
¶ Incarnation Revelation
One day I asked the Imam (From Him is Peace) about the incarnation of my daughter Maleeka, “My Father, in regard to my family, I love them very much, my wife and my daughter. Is it possible for me to know who my daughter Maleeka is?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “You would like to know who she is?”
I said, “Yes, by God, more than anything.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Ok, I shall ask of you something first. Go and open the book of God randomly and read from the right side what is written.”
I did as he said and then said to the Imam (From Him is Peace), “In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Who entered upon him and greeted him with “Peace”! He later said, ‘Surely, we are afraid of you!’ They reassured him, ‘Do not be afraid! Surely, we give you good news of a knowledgeable son.’ ”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Continue.”
I said, “He wondered, ‘Do you give me good news despite my old age? What unlikely news!’ They responded, ‘We give you good news in all truth, so do not be one of those who despair.’ ”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “May God send His Prayers and Peace upon Mohammed and the Family of Mohammed, the Imams and the Mahdis and submit a true submission. It is Maleeka (PBUH). Narjis (PBUH).”
I said, “O God! Narjis!?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Narjis the Roman.”
I said, “Glory be to you, O God!”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Do you think that you named her Maleeka by your own will? No, by God.”
I said to the Imam (From Him is Peace), “No, by God, Glory be to Him! My Father, we were actually going to name her something else and then Norhan saw a dream that she should name her Maleeka!”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “What were you going to name her?”
I said, “Khadijah, after Khadijah the wife of the Greater Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family).”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “There is no difference.”
I said, “No difference?! So, Narjis is Khadijah!?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Narjis (PBUH) is Khadijah (PBUH) and the opposite is true.”
I said, “Glory be to God, the Most Merciful! I could almost die from joy!”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Take good care of her, my son.”
I said, “I shall take care of her with all that I have, by God! What a mercy it is!”
This is an example of an individual who had a dream that she should name her daughter a particular name. Even though she had this dream, it did not cross her mind that the dream meant that it was her daughter’s incarnation. In fact, it was one of the most shocking matters to us both at the time, for we did not see ourselves worthy of that. Incarnations and memories of incarnations can be revealed in dreams and they can be truth, but the only way to confirm its meaning is through the interpretation of God’s viceroy, the infallible.
¶ Symbolic Dreams
Sometimes dreams are symbolic, coded, and have deeper meanings. These dreams are often difficult for a person to understand without knowledge of the symbolism in dreams. It is a highly specialized language on its own. An example of a dream like this is the dream of Akhenaten in the story of Joseph, or the dreams of the two prisoners where one saw a bird eating from his head and the other saw himself squeezing wine for his Lord.
One day I said to Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace), “I saw a strange dream last night.”
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) replied, “All thanks due to God, God-willing, it is good.”
I said, “I saw that I was looking at my teeth and I had new teeth coming out, but it was under the gums, and it did not come out yet, but I saw it emerging.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “O God, send your Peace and Blessings upon Mohammed and the Family of Mohammed, the Imams and the Mahdis. It is gnosis my son, and power and goodness and glory and perhaps you shall also have a newborn child, God-willing.”
I said, “All thanks due to God.”
These words of the Imam (From Him is Peace) proved to be true. I did indeed have a child, about a year later, and the Imam (From Him is Peace) named her Sophia. This is an example of a true dream, which was prophetic in nature about something which was to happen in the future, and it did happen as interpreted.
¶ All Thoughts Already Exist
One night I said, “My Father, I wanted to ask you about reality and how you said it was a dream. Many times I would find myself wishing for something to happen or thinking about a particular thing and suddenly the topic is opened, and if I stop thinking about it the topic disappears. As such it happens with others as well. Do these things that happen in our daily lives happen because we are the ones attracting it to us? There is this experiment that Norhan tried where she thought about drums and a duck, those two words, and after a few days, lo and behold, she sees drums next to a duck in front of her.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes.”
I said, “Like how we think about something and then see it in our dreams.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, my son, it is understood and clear. Shall I answer?”
I said, “Yes please, my Father, if you are willing to, may my soul be your ransom.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “You are blessed, son. Yes, just about everything is present in this world. Every idea, and every matter and everything that is called imagination and other than it. All the ideas that humans can imagine, whether it is logical or not, are present. What people do is attract to themselves what they are thinking about. Expect good and you shall find it. Expect evil and you shall find it.”
I said to the Imam (From Him is Peace), “Wow! Glory be to God.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “The believer always has to expect good, and he shall see good. That is the matter in all simplicity.”
I said, “But my Father, can you clarify the part about anything the human being can imagine is present whether it is logical or not? For example, if someone imagines a dragon or…”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “As long as the idea exists in the mind of the human, then it is present here or there, on this Earth or on another planet.”
I said, “God is Great! God is Great! God is Great! So then my Father, for example, I saw this British documentary about a large piece of cloth that is in a museum over there and this piece of cloth has on it a map from the 14th century and on it there were drawings of strange creatures, or creatures that the Roman historian Pliny wrote about, such as the Cynocephaly (humans with dog faces) and headless men with faces in their chests and other strange people with large ears and dragons.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, they are all present, but they are not from this world. There are also creatures that have heads in their private areas and their privates on their chests.”
I said to the Imam (From Him is Peace), “Wow! That is strange!”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “There exists other than that, there exist creatures that are the length of normal humans, but their bodies are as thin as thread and heavier than an adult elephant.”
I said, “Glory be to God, the Great Creator, the Fashioner of Images!”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “There also exists on one of these planets, the name of the planet is Al-Aroos, creatures that look exactly like humans, but they are considered to be the animals of that planet.”
I said, “And they have minds like humans and language? Or are they like animals here in terms of logic?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “The intelligent creature there is a creature called Roob and it looks exactly like a rabbit except that it is intelligent and walks on two legs. The human there is a rabbit and the animal there is a human, so I mean flip things.”
I said to the Imam (From Him is Peace), “Is the size of the rabbit there the same as it is here or is it the same size of a human here?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “No, it is the size of a bear.”
I said, “Wow, and people there are our same size or are they small?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “They are our same size.”
I said, “But their minds are like animals here?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Their minds are like the animals.”
What Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) reveals here is absolutely fascinating. He is simply stating that there is no such thing as an original thought, for all things have already been thought of by God, and all thoughts of God are true and real, and since they are true and real, then they exist, or else God’s thought would not be real and that is an impossibility. So, all thoughts and possibilities already exist somewhere. This means that the Imam (From Him is Peace) is verifying the many-worlds interpretation theory in quantum mechanics that states that all possible outcomes are physically realized in some universe or world. It is one of the many multiverse theories in physics and philosophy.
¶ Meetings in the Real World
One day I asked Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) about a dream that I had, “My Father, when Adam (PBUH) and Ahmed Aba Ibrahim came to visit me, he brought with him a ring as a gift for me. That night that he gave it to me, I saw a dream where you said to me ‘I am the one who sent the ring to you and here it is.’ ”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, that is true. That ring used to belong to me and now it is for you.”
I said, “God is Great! My Father, the ring appears to have in it blood, is it your blood? In the stone?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “No, my son, it is not my blood. It is your blood.”
I said to the Imam (From Him is Peace), “My blood?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes.”
I said, “From Karbala?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes.”
There are many examples where the Imam (From Him is Peace) would come and talk to me in my dreams, and his words in the dream would be exactly as in reality. For example, there were times when I would see the Imam in the dream telling me he would speak to me that night, and then precisely at the same time he told me he would, he would speak to me. Other times, the Imam (From Him is Peace) would come and tell me in a dream about things to come and they would happen as he said. Other times, he would teach me knowledge in dreams. When I would ask him about it in waking life, he would confirm the exact same details I had experienced in the dream. These dreams would take place in a dimension that is a higher reality, the true existence, or what Aristotle (PBUH) called the world of essence.
Socrates and Plato (PBUT) have called it the world of forms or ideas. The world of forms or ideas is the perfect existence of which everything in the lower realms is a partial and imperfect reflection. Plato (PBUH) demonstrates this in his famous Allegory of the Cave, where Plato (PBUH) describes prisoners chained together in a cave. Behind them is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying puppets or other objects. The shadows on the wall are the forms that are an illusion. They are a reflection of a higher reality. This is the real plane of existence where everything exists in its true, absolute, timeless, and unchangeable form. All lucid dreaming takes place here.
¶ Dreams That Guide to the Truth
Many of the believers who came to believe in this religion were given dreams to reinforce their faith. Others before believing asked God for a sign, and God gave it to them in the form of a true vision. Over the last two decades the Imam (From Him is Peace) has received hundreds and thousands of these reports from all over the globe, such as Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Thailand, Uruguay, Sudan, Spain, Malaysia, Palestine, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Mauritania, to name some. There are too many to list here, but we would like the readers to reflect upon this reality and ask themselves: What are the odds of this happening? Clearly, the scale and breadth of this phenomenon cannot be said to be ‘random’ or ‘delusions.’ Here are a few examples of dreams from the many that believers reported, confirming to them the truthfulness of this religion.
In 2015, while living in the United Kingdom, Sawsan Batul narrates: “I had a dream when I was 11 years old, and I had just heard about the Call. I was in a mosque and I looked up to see two people I had never met before, one of them was Aba Al-Sadiq (From Him is Peace) and the other was Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace). For some reason I had never seen or heard of them, but I knew them and I knew their names. Aba Al-Sadiq had given me a pen and a paper, and on this paper he had shown me the Will of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family). I looked up at Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) and behind him I saw a picture of Imam Al-Hussein (From Him is Peace), and instantly I knew he was Imam Al-Hussein, and from there I believed. After I had this dream I went to my uncle’s house one day where I saw a picture of Aba Al-Sadiq and I recognized who he was. I remember trying to recall his name until I was told ‘Aba Al-Sadiq’ and I said, ‘Yes, this was the name.’ ”
In 2015, while living in Egypt, Hamidreza Saghari, who grew up in the United Kingdom, reported dreams concerning the Will of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family): “I saw that Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) came to me and he sat next to me, then he pointed to his right side, and he said to me in the dream: ‘This is Abdullah who is mentioned in the Will’ (meaning his Will), and when I looked to his right side, you (Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq) were sitting there.” He also saw a dream concerning the Crucifixion of Jesus (PBUH): “I saw that it was the Crucifixion of Jesus (PBUH), he was being crucified on the cross and many people were crying for him. Then an image of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) appeared in the sky and an image of me, and the Prophet of God was explaining to me that the one who was crucified on the cross was not Jesus (PBUH) himself and that it was Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem.”
In 2016, Caroline, a former atheist from Germany, reported the following, “I had believed in Ahmed Al-Hassan for a while before the Call of the Black Banners in 2015. I had repeatedly asked God to show me Ahmed Al-Hassan’s face in a dream. But, whenever I saw him, he had a light veil in front of his face, and I could not see him. But shortly after I entered the Black Banners, I dreamt I was in a building and got a text message from Aba Al-Sadiq. He told me: ‘Come on the balcony and I will finally show you Ahmed Al-Hassan.’ So, I went on the balcony, and I saw Aba Al-Sadiq standing there smiling and he pointed towards Ahmed Al-Hassan. And for the first time ever, I saw him with his real face. I ran and hugged him and said, ‘Baba’ (Father). This was a big proof for the fact that Aba Al-Sadiq is the door to Ahmed Al-Hassan, and we can only meet, see, and get to know Ahmed Al-Hassan through Aba Al-Sadiq.”
On March 23, 2022, Veronica who is originally from Uruguay and living in England reported the following: “Aba Al-Sadiq (From Him is Peace) was on my right side, and he had these numbers floating around him. Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) was saying to me ‘Look how we can describe the whole universe with just 10 numbers and its combinations from 0 to 9. Imagine how much more it will be when the 27 letters will be revealed.’ I knew that it was you (Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq), the one to reveal the 27 letters (referring to the 27 letters of knowledge). He (Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan) was on my left, hinting to you. In this dream, forms were not there, nor shapes, nor words, nevertheless I saw and knew and recognized the Imam and Aba Al-Sadiq (From Them is Peace) and knew where they were, and saw the numbers floating around Aba Al-Sadiq (From Him is Peace) and got the message. After that I woke up, then I fell asleep again, and my face appeared and with golden letters it was being written: ‘You are blessed by God.’ As soon as the writing was finished, I woke up again.”
These examples are a few from thousands of dreams which we have documented that show the diversity and range of true visions that enhance certitude in this religion, a source of comfort for the believers, and reinforcement for those who choose to answer this divine Call.
¶ Sources
- The Prophet of God (PBUH & His Family) said: “Nothing remains of Prophethood but the glad tidings.” They asked, “What are the glad tidings?” He said: “The good dream.” - Mizan Al-Hikmah (The Scale of Wisdom), Mohammed Al-Reyshahri, Vol. 2, p. 1010
- Lucid dreaming is when a person becomes aware of the fact that they are dreaming.
- The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, C.G. Jung
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 12 (Surah Yusuf)
- Istikharah means seeking counsel from God when needing to make a choice between two things. The person asks God to help him/her choose the best of the two.
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 14 (Ibrahim), Verse 4
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 15 (Al-Hijr), Verses 52-55
- Metaphysics, Aristotle
- The Republic, Plato
- The Allegory of the Cave, Plato