Dreams And Islam
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Submitted by nazneen on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Dreams And Islam
Dreams are important religious phenomena in almost all of the world's religious traditions. There is little mystery, then, about why scholars of religion are interested in studying dreams; we study dreams to gain valuable insights into the religious concerns of mankind. Dreams are significant in almost every religion but Islam is a religion giving utmost importance to dreams because of the significance it portrays in the Muslim religion and culture. Dreams have had great importance in people's lives before and after Islam. Educated people and intellectuals might differ in the way they view dreams and judge their issue. Philosophers such as Cicero, Macrobius, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas all lent their pens to the concept of dreaming, but from their writings it is clear that they were more interested in stamping out religious or political uprisings than exploring dreaming itself. Some psychiatrists have a negative attitude towards dreams, which is actually very close to that of the philosophers. They refer it to the mood of people and certain parts of their memory which become hyper during sleep, making dreams purely biological. On the other hand, Islam and its scholars have followed the prophetic path in dealing with dreams, and have judged dreams according to the Quran and the Sunnah (teachings of Prophet Mohammad). Dreams have acquired this high position in Islam because of some of the revelations of the Holy Quranic verses through dreams, the teachings and practices of Prophet Mohammad on dreams and the Islamic fact that dreams are able to help man if correctly interpreted. These reasons outline the importance given to dreams for the followers of Islam. Consequently, there is a real need to understand this subject, especially, considering that humans spend about a third of their lives sleeping.
The verses of the Holy Quran are as vital as the whole book itself. The fact that some of these verses were revealed to Islamic prophets through...
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