Muhammad Mustafa Al-Jibaly Language: English | Format: PDF | Pages: 363 | Size: 4 MB
Our soul inevitably passes though a route
starting from birth, passing through death and ending with our
resurrection in the next life. This route revolves around death and is
strongly marked with events that precede and succeed it. These events
include sickness, Pre-Death and Post-Death actions, the intermediate
life in the grave (al-Barzakh}, and periods of sleep that count as
“minor death”. These, and related issues of the Soul, are the subjects
that “The Inevitable Journey discusses over a Sequence of Titles:
1. Sickness, Regulations & Exhortations
2. The Final Bequest, Islamic Inheritance and Will
3. Funerals, Regulations & Exhortations
4. Life in al-Barzakh
5. Dreamer’s Handbook
Sleep can be a welcome occasion of
pleasurable rest, or a hateful predicament of fear and terror. Islam,
praise be to Allah, presents a clear understanding of sleep and dreams,
and provides a complete code of Sleep etiquettes and extolments. This
can help make sleep a rewarding experience that brings useful rest and
pleasant dreams.
This book starts by presenting a
spiritual understanding of sleep from the Islamic viewpoint, which is
followed by guidelines for recommended evening, pre-sleep, night, and
morning acts of worship. The conceptual understanding of dreams is laid
out next, followed by an analytical study of dreams in the Quran, and of
dreams seen by the Prophet Muhammad and by his companions. The rest of
the book deals with dream interpretation, its correct rules and
procedures, drills to help understand these rules, and a large glossary
of interpreted dream symbols.
This, we hope, fulfils two important
goals regarding sleep and dreams: It establishes their understanding
upon the strong foundation of the Quran and Sunnah, and it eliminates a
great deal of superstition that surrounds them. Indeed, from Allah alone
we seek help and acceptance.
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