The Mahdi Times August 2011 | Page 20

Visions in Ramadan by HussainTheShortcomer Salam alaykum brothers and sisters, In this blessed month of Ramadhan, I have been receiving many dreams and visions in my sleep and I thought it would be nice to share some of these with everyone. I will try to mention the ones that I think were the most significant, but first I would like to briefly discuss the importance of dreams. Visions have occurred throughout many Prophet’s missions (pbuta), such as the one of Abraham (a.s.) in which he saw a vision of himself slaughtering his son Ishmael (a.s.), after which, he believed in this vision and did what he was instructed and was praised in the Quran by God, and He hastened the prophecies of his offspring as well as not losing his son Ishmael (a.s.): {And We called out to him saying: O Ibrahim! * You have indeed shown the truth of the vision; surely thus do We reward the doers of good} {The Holy Qur’an (37: 104-105) There are countless examples, such as the vision of Pharoah (the disbeliever) which was believed in and interpreted by Prophet Joseph/Yusuf (a.s.) and resulted in prosperity for Egypt and its people: {Yusuf! O truthful one!} {The Holy Qur’an (12: 46). So let us not disbelieve in them as the advisers of Pharoah did: {They said: Muddled dreams, and we do not know the interpretation of dreams} {The Holy Qur’an (12: 44). My visions Other Dreams... -In one vision it was wartime and I was writing a letter to the Prince of the Believers (a.s.), Imam Ali. I can remember more dreams, but will only mention some as they might not be related to the call. As previously mentioned there is someone I know who keeps appearing. There is another person I know in real life who I am currently at war with, he appeared in my vision praying, praying opposite to the Qiblah (the direction that must be prayed in) and inside an inappropriate Najis (unholy, dirty) place. This one is pretty self explanatory for me. -In another one he(a.s.) was giving a speech, he said: “Do not describe me as the people of Jesus (a.s.) described him”. For me this was a confirmation that indeed the Shia of the scholars have stepped the boundaries in terms of describing the 12 Imams (pbuta). -In this vision, I was walking in the markets of Iraq with my brother, certain things happened which I forgot unfortunately (as is the case with dreams) but it came to the point where we entered a shop, it was ran by the relatives of AlYamani (a.s.), Imam Ahmad. They were selling us chocolate, only it was giant, about 3 meters wide, one meter high and 30-50 centimeters thick. They were measuring the thickness and the number 30 seemed significant, and they joked about it but I don’t remember what and why. -In another incredibly long dream, a character I know in real life (who has appeared in about 6 dreams and I don’t know why!) was getting something out of his car in a car park and I was with him. One of the Ansar was worried that “We might not be prepared for the magazine with regards to Prophet Muhammad (pbuhaf) and Imam Hussein (a.s.)”, to which the character replied: “No it is fine, we are ready.” He went back to get more things out of the car and then continued. -In another vision, I was attending and taking part in an English exam, and some things occurred, then I was interrupted by someone calling my mobile, it was an Ansar and she asked me if I knew her to which I replied “No”. She then told me her name (I have never heard of it before!) and said “I appeared in the Satellite TV yesterday”. I’m pretty sure this one is referring to the Yamani goal of going onto Satellite TV . 20 In other dreams, I am inside different planets, not Earth, and with people that I know in real life. So I will end here, actually there are three more dreams which I shared on the forums: “yamani.hashemstudios.com” and “forum.the-savior.com” and these three have a lot of detail in them involving the Comforter (a.s.), Lady Fatimah (a.s.) and Prophet Muhammad (pbuhaf) if anyone is interested. Thanks for reading and I just wanted to mention that these, with exception to the previous three, all occurred in this Blessed month of Ramadhan, as well as around 10 others I can remember. All by the Favor of God Al-mighty. All praise is due to Allah (swt).