Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 340
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 340 dreams. In fact, sometimes true dreams are experienced with- out distinction between the righteous and the sinful, by dis- believers and Muslims. Sometimes adulterers and adulteresses, the unclean and the foul also experience true dreams. Then why would one not accept that a believer—who, due to his flaw- less faith, is more deserving than they—can experience a true dream or visions or revelations? In fact, a believer can experi- ence all these phenomena a great deal more. Do not think that this takes away from the lustre of the visions and revelations of the righteous and those ordained by God, the Prophets and the Messengers, or that it detracts from their majesty or that it decreases their esteem. Not at all. The fact is that these matters affirm the revelation of prophethood and the discourses and converse of God that are bestowed upon His Prophets and Messengers by Him, and they are a strong argument for their reality. If the seed of this phenomenon was not found in the peo- ple, these sinners, transgressors, and faithless people, would have denied the very existence of wahi [revelation] and ilham [inspiration] and their objection would have been strong. It is for this very reason, therefore, that Allah the Exalted, in His perfect wisdom, has Himself planted the seeds of this phenom- enon in people of every category to serve as a witness for the discourses, converse, and prophetic revelation of the Prophets and saints so that man would have no way to escape and would be held guilty before his own conscience.