forefront, and Your inspiration, and
Your Words that You have favored
your guardians, prophets, and
messengers; and You vilified those
on the Worlds.
who disclaimed in them and named
them muddled/confused dreams
O Thee who commended Ibrahim
and hastened the Prophets from his and then you said Your saying of
truth: {Their reckoning draweth nigh
offspring. Because he believed the
visions and then You said (swt): {And for mankind, while they turn away
in heedlessness. * Never cometh
We called out to him saying: O
there unto them a new reminder
Ibrahim! * You have indeed shown
from their Lord but they listen to it
the truth of the vision; surely thus
while they play, * With hearts
do We reward the doers of good}
{The Holy Qur’an (37: 104-105)}. preoccupied. And they confer in
And you commended Maryam and
then You said (swt): {And Mary the
daughter of ‘Imran, who guarded
her chastity; and We breathed into
(her body) of Our spirit; and she
secret. The wrong-doers say: Is this
other than a mortal like you? Will
ye then succumb to magic when ye
see (it)? * He saith: My Lord
knoweth what is spoken in the
heaven and the earth. He is the
testified to the truth of the words of
Hearer, the Knower. * Nay, say
her Lord} {The Holy Qur’an (66:
they, (these are but) muddled
12)}.
dreams; nay, he hath but invented
O Thee who spoke to Muhammad it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him
(pbuh) and then said (swt): {We
bring us a portent even as those of
narrate unto thee (Muhammad)
the best of narratives in that We
have inspired in thee this Qur’an,
though aforetime thou wast of the
heedless. * When Joseph said unto
old (who were Allah’s messengers)
were sent (with portents).}{The
Holy Qur’an (21: 1-5)}.
And the crowd and guards/army of
pharaoh said: {They said: Confused/
his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in muddled dreams, and we do not
a dream eleven planets and the sun know the interpretation of dreams}
and the moon, I saw them
{The Holy Qur’an (12: 44)}.
prostrating themselves unto me.}
And Yusuf believed in the vision and
{The Holy Qur’an (12: 3-4)}.
in its foremost, and then You
So You named the visions/dreams
commended him and said(swt):
the best of narratives inside Your
{Yusuf! O truthful one!}{The Holy
Holy Book. And you commended
Qur’an (12: 46)}.
those who believed in them from
O Allah, cause me to be like your
guardians, prophets and
messengers; believing in the visions/
dreams, (as)a foremost, and Your
inspiration, and Your words that You
have favoured with on the Worlds,
and the best of narratives in Your
Holy Book, and that I do not repeal
Your testament, nor do I dishonour
Your promise)))
Then they should say:
(((Save me O Thy Lord by the right
of Fatima, Have Mercy on me O
Thy Lord by the right of Fatima,
Guide me O Thy Lord by the right of
Fatima.)))
***
For Allah, the Glorious, and the
Prophets, and the Special Preferred
Ones testify to Imam Ahmad (pbuh)
and to these specifications.
Istikhara (Seeking what is best
from Allah)
The dream/vision and Istikhara are
ways of the unseen to knowing and
identifying/determining the truth of
the Successor of Allah on His Earth,
and the Qur’an acknowledges/
recognizes the dream/vision in the
story of [the Prophet] Yousef’s
(pbuh) dream, and clarified that it
was an evidence upon [the fact] that
Yousef was the Successor of Allah
on His Earth. And that it is a path
that Jacob sought guidance by, and
he warned Yousef from telling [his
dream/vision] to his brothers, for