Q: What does it mean for one to not see any dreams or not remember the dream?
The Reality of Dreams
Not remembering dreams or not seeing dreams is a good thing.
It means Satan is neutral.
He’s not attempting to misguide you yet.
What will you do with seeing dreams?
These things confuse one’s mind and one begins to run after the interpretations of the dreams.
So, my brother, I say that it is better for your mind, your faith and your spirituality if you do not see dreams.
You are better off.
If you are to see a dream, it should be true,
otherwise there should be no dreams,
because, oftentimes, people start believing in their dreams.
'We saw this in our dream' and 'we saw that in our dream'.
I am often perplexed to see
how the Devil tricks certain people through their dreams.
For example, if they were facing an issue today,
they say, 'We shall be given confirmation in our dreams by tonight',
and whatever they wanted to be confirmed was confirmed to them in their dreams.
And it is exactly what they had been talking about in the day
which only tells us that the Devil has taken control of them.
So, it is better not to have dreams, according to me at least.
Every dream of a prophet is truthful,
and for the saints, forty out of a hundred dreams are truthful and sixty are false
but they possess the esoteric knowledge
of distinguishing truthful dreams out of false ones.
A common person does not have esoteric knowledge to be able to distinguish between true and false dreams.
When forty dreams out of a hundred are true for a saint and sixty are false, then what would be the case for a common man?
In the esoteric realm, it is said that the power of forty momin equates to the rank of an inferior saint.
So, if forty dreams out of a hundred that a saint sees are true
- and forty momins equal one [inferior] saint, right?
So, it means that for a momin, only one out of a hundred dreams would be true.
if we look at it from this perspective
Furthermore… we watch cricket, right?
One type of delivery is which goes and hits the stumps completely,
but then there are certain balls that have hit the stumps, but they barely clip the stumps.
If the umpire has given it out, it is out,
but if the umpire has not given it out and although it may have been clipping the stumps, it is not out.
Similarly, for the momineen, their dreams,
the entire dream will only be 10%-15% true, it's "clipping" the truth.
The dream is not entirely true.
For instance, you may see that you are sitting in the Mosque of the Prophet (s), reciting Durood o Salam
and then suddenly you will see a cleaner,
or someone who is singing,
then you will suddenly see yourself roaming the Kaaba.
Then you will see that you’re playing cards in a casino
or you will see yourself showering.
So, these are short clippings
and you have to choose between them,
as to which is right and which is wrong,
which is true and which is false.
Now, if God sends you a dream,
you will not have to decipher between what is right and what is wrong.
Now, the Devil also produces things that are true in your dream.
You will ask, ‘How can the Devil do anything good?’
Now, one day, the Prophet (s) appointed one of the companions to guard the war treasures.
So, he stayed awake to guard.
The Devil appeared to him in the guise of a wise old man
and said to the companion, 'Why do you stay awake all night?
You should recite Ayat ul Kursi and sleep. God will protect the treasure'.
He said this and left.
In the morning, the companion went to the Prophet (s) and said, 'O Messenger of God,
a wise old man came to me last night
and told me that I should just recite Ayat ul Kursi and sleep and God would protect the treasure'.
The Prophet (s) smiled and said,
'Really? So was the treasure protected?’ He said, ‘Absolutely’.
[The Prophet (s) said], ‘But the man who came was not a wise old man’.
‘Really? So who was he, Messenger?’
The Prophet (s) said, ‘He was the Devil’.
‘However, what he said was truthful',
the Prophet (s) also said this.
Now, [the Devil] appeared before a companion.
You have placed them on such a high pedestal but this companion was not even able to recognise the ‘wise old man’.
And, the Prophet (s) also said, ‘The one that appeared was the Devil, however, he spoke the truth’.
Now, this would confuse people
and make them wonder that if it was the Devil
then why would he speak the truth?
That’s valid, right?
Wouldn’t you wonder the same?
Because we are of the opinion that the Devil would not do anything good.
Everything he does is wrong and it only misguides us.
Now, you tell me, as per your level of spiritual knowledge,
why did the Devil speak the truth?
You know why?
He did so in order to gain your trust first.
So that you begin to believe he is a wise old man.
He will say two or three things that are truthful,
and then he shall misguide you in such a horrible way
that those few truthful things that he told you would become redundant and futile.
Now, if you are naive or stubborn
and you say, ‘It was a wise old man who spoke to me in my dream
and the Qur’an and hadith also state the same as him’
- you will be entangled with this without realising who it actually is.
So, listen to and obey your spiritual guide,
because he knows that the Devil will tell you a couple of truthful things only to then destroy your faith.