قَالُوٓا۟ أَضْغَٰثُ أَحْلَٰمٍۢ ۖ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِتَأْوِيلِ ٱلْأَحْلَٰمِ بِعَٰلِمِينَ
Qaalooo adghaasu ahlaa minw wa maa nahnu bitaaweelil ahlaami bi'aalimeen
They said, "[It is but] a mixture of false dreams, and we are not learned in the interpretation of dreams."
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Lessons from past peoples
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They said this is ‘A jumble a mixture of dreams! And we are not knowledgeable in the interpretation of dreams’.
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“Dreams
are attached to the foot of a bird* until they are
interpreted, then
when they are interpreted they come to pass.” He
said: “And
dreams are one of the forty-six parts of prophecy.” He (the
narrator) said: “And I think he said: ‘(A person) should not tell
them
except to one whom he loves or one who is wise.’”
It is nothing (i. e. it is a mere superstition). They said: Allah's Messenger, they at times narrate to us things which we find true. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn snatches away and then cackles into the ear of his friend as the hen does. And then they mix in it more than one hundred lies.
“Dreams are
of three types: Some are terrifying things from Satan, aimed at
causing grief to the son of Adam; some are things that a person is
concerned with when he is awake, so he sees them in his dreams; and
some are a part of the forty-six parts of prophecy.” He said: “I
said
to him: ‘Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?’
He
said: ‘Yes, I heard it from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), I
heard it
from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).’”
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The worst lie is that a person claims to have seen a dream which he has not
seen."
Some people asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about the fore-tellers He said. ' They are nothing" They said, 'O
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Sometimes they tell us of a thing which turns out to be true." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "A
Jinn snatches that true word and pours it Into the ear of his friend (the fore-teller) (as one puts
something into a bottle) The foreteller then mixes with that word one hundred lies."
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