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Dreams and Rulings

Posted Jan 13, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with No Comments

In Islaam dreams can only give glad tidings or sometimes serve as warnings to people. Dreams do not bring new rulings in Islaam.

Certain sects actually take rulings based upon dreams they might see, and this is no doubt a big source for the spread of Bida’ (innovations)

Imaam ash-Shaatiby writes in his book al-Itisaam about this:

And from the most baseless forms [of bid'ah] is that a group of people actually use dreams to derive rulings. So they might say we saw so and so [mentioning a pious man] and he ordered us to do such and such and stay away from such and such.

And some of them might even say we saw the Prophet in our sleep and he told me such and such and commanded me to do that.

So this person actually does this based on the dream and turns away from the clear Sharee’ah and its limits and this is wrong.

Since dreams seen by any other than Prophets are not taken as a ruling except that we put the dream against what is in our hands [i.e the Qur'aan and Sunnah] if it is in accordance with it then we accept it otherwise we have to leave it and turn away from it.

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