Should You Pay Special Attention To Your Dream?

At least three times to repeat them and tariqah (spiritual path) teaches that they’re repeating all the time because everybody has a different level of understanding, a different level of where they are in the level of understanding, like a journey. At the beginning of the journey whatever the shaykh talks about it’s like we’re in a forest and all we see are the tree trunks and obstacles and inability to understand, inability to see a horizon. As we progress along the path and follow their advice with the energy with the meditation, tafakkur (contemplation), good characters, we begin to rise in this journey, so as they speak that same subject you may now be seeing a much larger horizon.

You may be at the level of the treetops in which your path becomes less of the obstacles and more of understanding the horizon and the reality that is being laid out. So alhamdulillah that the process is to always repeat that the good character tariqah comes to teach good character, adab (manners). There were quite a few comments because they had to be deleted as far as the dreams and we talked about that in our path of ma’rifah (Gnosticism) that, ‘In my annihilation I annihilated.

’ Imam Ali (as) comes to teach that in this path of muraqabah (spiritual connection) and tafakkur, that no matter what opens and what understanding opens we take a path in which to continuously annihilate ourselves, and many spiritual paths talk about the. . empty your cup. If we become full on ourselves and full with ourselves, content with ourselves we begin to give everything that is opening for us to the nafs (ego) and if the nafs gets involved in any type of spiritual opening it contaminates it.

So imagine the nafs is a very toxic poisonous creature that lives within us, anything beautific that opens for us if the nafs should put its claws into that reality it becomes nafsani (egocentric), means it becomes now contaminated and poisonous and toxic and that’s why the teaching of annihilation and annihilating ourselves is continuous. So for the servant whom taking a path in which to build themselves and they begin to sit and tafakkur and contemplate the danger is to begin to enter the imaginal world in which you’re sitting contemplating and then you want to see something, you want to see where you are and what your horizon is, so the intention now becomes about how to elevate yourself or to inflate oneself, now the nafs will enter in and when the nafs enters in begin to show the servant all these beautific visions, ‘You’re this, you’re that, you’ve been given this, you’ve been given that,’ and it just becomes nafsani and it will never end.

Every time the servant sits it becomes all these imaginary things, anything their mind can imagine. They see something on tv they sit down they imagine that too and then that person is living within a dream world in their mind and nothing changes in their character, they can be extremely aggressive, angry, disturbed and then they have all these sort of illusions of beautific things happening to them because the nafs is playing with that individual and they’re not breaking through the nafs and all the bad characteristics, so that’s why when the shaykhs are teaching that if you’re going to start to listen to these talks and sit to meditate with yourself and contemplate it’s the self you have to be worried about.

So when you sit and contemplate, ‘I’m nothing I’m nothing I’m no one,’ then it’s not about how am I going to see or show me what my station is or no I want these things to come to me, but you’re being trained by the shaykh now the only thing you should visualize is that you’re nothing and that you’re in the presence of the shaykh. That you’re either at the Ka’bah if it’s easy for you, in Madinatul Munawwara (Luminous city of Prophet ﷺ) is a bit more difficult, and this is not your salah (prayer) this is just your contemplation and that you’re asking that the shaykh to be in front of you and then you take a path in which you say, ‘I’m nothing I’m no one.

I’m not worthy of seeing you with spiritual vision I just need to know that you’re in front of me, I know that you’re in front of me. ’ “Wa kono ma’as sadiqeen,” And Allah (AJ), “Assalamu alayka ayyu hanNabi wa Salamu alaykum Ibadullahi Saliheen. That we say it in our salah, “Ibadullahi Saliheen,” that righteous servants are always surrounding us. So I’m asking that you’re in front of me that dress me with your faiz (downpouring blessings) and now I’m going to now sit and meditate and breathe and contemplate.

So the whole process is about, ‘I’m nothing I’m nothing I’m nothing. ’ If for any reason a vision comes and you’ll see something, alhamdulillah. You see this in the zikr (Divine remembrance), see that, you can tell yourself I’m nothing Ya Rabbi I’m not that one that I’m seeing this jubba (cloak) I’m seeing this being given to me, I saw all the heavens dress me with light and angels come down. I’m nothing I’m nothing I’m no one. If it’s real alhamdulillah put it into the bank for me my spiritual bank but I’m telling You and telling myself I’m nothing, nothing Ya Rabbi let me to just reach towards your oceans of power.

Your oceans of light and energy and bring my bad character down. ’ And then throughout the day the focus will be on my character. So, not to live a life of inflating oneself. So then the subject of dreams, because dreams is the world in which everything is inflated and 99% of it is illusionary because people are not at a level of good character anymore, good practices, they’re not at a level of cleanliness so whatever is coming through the dream world 99% percent of it is nafsani.

So as a result we prescribed that pay no attention to your dreams so even if it’s. . whoever is coming to your dreams you equate it as, ‘Thank you very much I’m nothing I’m nothing and that alhamdulillah Allah (AJ) gave me a reminder of that dream. ’ If it was good alhamdulillah if I came out of the dream feeling it was good say, ‘Alhamdulillah’ and again I go towards my practices and all the things that I have to do. I don’t try to get my nafs involved and say, ‘Oh that must be that I’m important and then can I get an interpretation of this dream?’ Why do you need interpretation of the dream? Is that so that you’ll know or you and your nafs will know? It’s just the dream that Allah (AJ) is sending, the jinn (unseen beings) may be sending, anybody could be sending that transmission but for the sake of the nafs is - pay no attention to it.

What’s more impressive and what’s more difficult is to leave the relying on the dream state and to perform and to open up the live state in which you’re able to sit and contemplate and connect your heart and that when you feel that connection that you’re doing your zikr or your breathing there’s different types of meditation where you just connect and do your awrad (daily practices). You connect and breathe and just want to feel the energy and that fill my heart with this faiz and this light and I keep breathing keep breathing and then as that connection becomes stronger and stronger I don’t need to dream because the information and the faiz will be coming live via this Naqshbandi channel and this Naqshbandi faiz these awliyaullah (saints) will begin to broadcast live into the heart for the coordinates of that servant.

But when the servant relies on dream state then everything will be involved in that dream state, there can be jinn in the room that are merely touching the head and the person now is hallucinating going into the dream world, they could be asked and offered to come into the dream world, ‘Come into this realm do this do. . ’ all these different variables open. So the safeguard for that is to negate, so if you had a dream from this personality that personality you say alhamdulillah if it was good and it made you feel better alhamdulillah.

If you were given information and you don’t remember it, you weren’t meant to remember it. You were just supposed to give a sense of hope or goodness that, alhamdulillah continue with what you’re doing. You come to the tariqah (spiritual path) you watch a few videos you see Mawlana Shaykh (Q) in a dream that’s beautiful, that’s to confirm to you that alhamdulillah you’re on the Naqshbandi path, don’t worry about the rest. Don’t worry what he said, ‘How come I don’t remember what he said?’ If you were to remember it, Allah (AJ). . if Allah (AJ) wanted us to remember He would let you to remember it, it would be burned into the heart in which you can’t forget it but if it’s not meant to be remembered it’s not important, just as a like a give a sense of hope alhamdulillah and you go on. So that’s an important clarification that somebody was typing, ‘Oh he said to negate everything and they don’t mean anything and it’s not real,’ and that’s not at all what we said. We said whether they’re real or not don’t give your nafs any part of it and don’t live your life in that state because there are beings that are waiting to see if you’re going to be headstrong and head. . relying on your head, then all day long that’s all they will be doing is sending signals and all sorts of information into your head. And those people who rely on that realm they begin to dream about everything from the dunya (material world), ‘Oh I saw this person was walking in the market here. I saw this person is going there. ’ There’s nothing from the heavens these are just the jinn who are accompanying different people telling that person things in their head and, ‘This person did that this person did this,’ as if like you’re spying on people’s lives because that’s the jinn realm in which they can see those events and begin to tell that servant because they’re relying, they want some sort of information and they start to feed that person’s mind these types of gossips and intruding into things that they’re not supposed to.

That’s why the level of the heart is the secure realm in which the heart doesn’t do that, you don’t connect with the shaykhs to go and to look into people’s lives into people’s homes and to do these things that are all forbidden. That’s why it purifies and perfects the character the akhlaaq in which to elevate oneself to a higher security clearance in which Allah (AJ) grant the servant a sincerity inshaAllah. With that inshallah. Bi Hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi Surat al-Fatiha.

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