The Mahdi Times September 2012 | Page 46

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