Are dreams symbolic in Islam ?

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Amira_Zelda

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Hello Brothers and Sisters.. This is my question for those who have more experience in Islam. Do you all think that dreams are a sign of God ?

I personally do think so because they are a way for me to connect to God and it is in dreams were I feel he is speaking to me, or trying to convey a message.

For example I had this dreams a few days after I converted to Islam

I dreamed that I was in a city invaded and colonized by a tribe, an evil tribe that worshiped other gods and evil spirits !! And me, and others who believed in the one true God were slaves of that tribe and we were under a very tyrant Government that were forcing us to renounce God and believe in those evil spirits and worship them o_O .... But me and others refused, and as a consequence we were given the death sentence ! I remember thinking, Am I really going to die for God ?? Am i doing the right think ? But my love for God is so strong that indeed i was not going to surrender to this awful government but defend my faith and i realize i would gladly die for my beliefs and for God !!! Suddenly , i heard of voice in Arabic saying.. Allah Ma3ek Allah Ma3k (God is with you)!!! I felt my heart all warm inside ^^ !!! I knew it was God saying to not fear , that he is with me always !!!
So the dream ended by the tribe taking me and the rest to a pool of larva i think... or to a pool of fire and they were ready to throw us in... but then suddenly a mysterious man appeared.. i think he might have been a youth but im not sure.. he was like on a mission to save us !!! I believe he was sent by Allah so that we would be safe because we obeyed Him and were loyal to Him.. Anyways the man or boy whatever did some sort of super hero stunt xD hahahaha ! He grabbed some arrows with flames and starting shooting them at the tribal men... an killed them all, and we were finally freed from that evil place !!
In this dream i understand what it meant to be a shahida.. and now i am proud of it !!! i would always stand up for what i believe and i will always defend Allah !! :) :D
 
Dreams are broken into three parts according to the Sunnah:



Ru'yaa - good visions (dreams)
Hulum - bad dreams
Dreams from one's self


Abu Hurayrah narrated Muhammad (S) said, "There are three types of dreams: a righteous dream which is glad tidings from Allah, the dream which causes sadness is from Shaitan, and a dream from the ramblings of the mind. (Sahih Muslim)


True/Good Dreams
We can see true dreams are from Allah Ta'aala as Muhammad (S) said, "True dreams are from Allah, and bad dreams are from Shaitan." (Sahih Al-Bukhari)
True believers are more likely to happen to those who are truthful in their lives as Muhammad (S) said, "Those of you with the truest dreams will be those who are most truthful in speech" (Sahih Muslim)
Good dreams are also from Allah Ta'aala. Prophet Muhammad (S) said, "If anyone of you has a dream that he likes then it is from Allah. He should thank Allah for it and narrate it to others." (Sahih Al-Bukhari) Good deeds consist of people doing Halaal (lawful) acts.
One should share their dreams with those they like as Muhammad (S) said, "If one sees a good dream, let him expect good, and not tell it except to those he likes." (Muslim) An example of this is Yaqoob (AS) telling his son, Yusuf (AS) concerning his dream about eleven stars and the sun and the moon prostrating to him (scholars have said the eleven stars were his brothers, and the sun and the moon represented his mother and father): "He said, "O my son! Relate not your vision to your brothers lest they arrange a plot against you. Verily! Satan is to man an open enemy." (Surah Yusuf 12:5) We know the half-brothers of Yusuf were jealous of him to begin with so telling them the dream would probably only serve to increase the jealousy.
Muhammad (S) also told us, "Nothing is left of prophethood except glad tidings." Those with him asked, "What are glad tidings?" He (S) replied, "Good dreams." (Sahih Al-Bukhari)


Bad Dreams
As stated above bad dreams are from Shaitan. Muhammad (S) told us what to do upon seeing a bad dream. "So when one of you sees a dream which he does not like, he should spit on his left side three times, seek refuge with Allah from Shaitan thrice, and change the side which he was lying (Sahih Muslim) and in another narration in Muslim, Muhammad (S) told us if we spit three times and seek refuge from Allah then it (the dream) will not harm them." (Sahih Muslim)
Muhammad (S) also told us that if we saw a bad dream to "stand up and offer prayer." (Sahih Muslim)


Bad Dreams Should Not Be Disclosed
Muhammad (S) said, ...If he has a dream that he dislikes, then it is from Shaitan. He should seek refuge with Allah from its evil, and he SHOULD NOT MENTION IT TO ANYBODY, then it will not harm him." (Sahih Al-Bukhari) If one does tell somebody about the bad dream then there could be the chance that some harm will come out of it.


Dreams from One's Self
These dreams come from one's thoughts and are neither from Allah or Shaitan.

I found the above information on another site, hope it helps.
 
Assalaam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,
1.An important element of Sura Yusuf is Yusuf’s dream, just as the Qur’an shows in veiled fashion through verses like:
"And We made your sleep for rest" Qur’an, 78:9.
that there are important truths contained in dreams and sleep.
2.Those who follow the path of reality are not in favour of relying on the interpretation of dreams and taking of omens by means of the Qur’an. The reason is this: the All-Wise Qur’an strikes at the unbelievers frequently and severely. When this severity against the unbelievers is shown to one taking omens, it causes him to despair; it confuses his heart. Dreams too, while good, since they sometimes appear to be opposed to reality, are thought to be evil, causing a person to fall into despair, destroying his morale, and causing him to think badly of things. There are many dreams which although they take a terrifying, injurious, or unclean form, their meanings and interpretations are very good. But since everyone cannot find the relation between the form of the dream and the reality of its meaning, they become unnecessarily anxious, despairing, and unhappy.
3. Dreams are of three sorts. Two of these, in the words of the Qur’an, are "A confused medley of dreams"; included among these, they are not worth interpreting. If they have any meaning, it is of no importance. Either due to an ailment, the power of imagination mixes things up and depicts them in accordance with the person’s sickness, or the imagination recalls some stimulating event which occurred to the person that day, or previously, or even at the same time a year or two earlier, and it modifies and depicts it, giving it some other form. This sort too are A confused medley of dreams, and not worth interpreting.
The third sort are true dreams. With the senses that bind man to the Manifest World and roam in that world resting and ceasing their activity, the dominical subtle faculty in man’s essential nature finds a direct relation with World of the Unseen and opens up a window onto it. Through that window, it looks on events whose occurrence is being prepared; it encounters the manifestations of the Preserved Tablet and one of the types of samples of the missives of Divine Determining; it sees some true occurrences. Sometimes the imagination governs in those occurrences, dressing them in the garments of form. There are numerous types and levels of this sort of dream. Sometimes they turn out exactly as dreamed; sometimes they turn out slightly concealed, as though under a fine veil; and sometimes they turn out heavily veiled.
 

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