Wonders Of Dreams – Maulana Dost Muhammad Shahid
Dreams and their interpretations, which in the Holy Quran are sometimes mentioned as "The Interpretation of Episodes’, embrace a very wide scope in all the religions of the world. In Islam these have been given a noticeable significance. From time immemorial dreams have been considered a special means of conveyance of the Divine message and commands to His creatures through which He imparts knowledge and wisdom to them. It was through a dream that Abraham, the progenitor of prophets, made his determination of sacrificing his eldest son Ismail and who, in turn, gladly accepted the Divine Command and prepared himself to be sacrificed at the hand of his own father. The whole Hife of prophet Joseph revolves round the dreams and their inter- pretations. The call to prayer, known as Azaan, has its inception through a dream. It was on account of a dream that the Holy Prophet of Islam undertook the hazardous march to Hudaibiyya with fourteen hundred of his faithful disciples.