Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 47
26 December 1906 47 A True Dream is Not the Basis of Salvation I mention this matter with regret that I have seen some people whose main goal in life is to see dreams or be able to see dreams. They focus all their energies on this very pursuit. In my esti- mation this is a trial. Those who are afflicted with this illusion ought to remember that salvation does not depend on this mat- ter. You will never be asked, ‘How many dreams did you see?’ I have seen people who were punished for theft. When they returned after their punishment and they were asked, they said that they had gone to commit theft [even though] they had learnt through a dream that such would be their outcome. Even the biggest of sinners who are called kanjars can experience true dreams. Here, we had a sweeper woman who also used to have such dreams. Therefore, do not get caught up in this trial. Increase your ties with God Almighty and try to please Him. Beautify your actions. Man should study the matter whether he has brought his deeds in line with the Holy Quran or not. If it is (not) so, then seeing even thousands of dreams is useless and without benefit. The Holy Quran directs us to fulfil adequately the rights of Allah and the rights of Mankind. Your actions should have no trace of pretence, treachery, or mischief; they should be purely for Allah. Thus, first create this state, and then you will automatically gain the fruits thereof. I do not mean that these things [seeing dreams] are bad, or that this is an evil way. No, not at all. The real meaning is that the misuse of it is bad. 1 It is the duty of the person who is ill to 1. From Badr : ‘No one can attain salvation through dreams. This is not an unde- sired action, but its misuse is harmful. ’ ( Badr, vol. 6, nos. 1, 2, p. 16, dated 10 January 1907)