Destined To Find You #muslim-romance

♡ Chapter 11

"You met who?," Sohail said in an audibly louder tone in his excitement as Aftab told him about seeing the girl he met and dreamt about. Aftab narrowed his gaze at him and instructed him to sit on the chair as people in the cafe stared at them. Everyone must be wondering what's up with people sitting at this table, he thought in ironic amusement.

Aftab texted him and asked him to come when Noorie inquired twice about the friend who he had come to meet. He had made it all seem so real. He didn't expect Zayna to be here when he came after her. Hoping he would get to talk to her again and had decided to give her the wind chime, which coincidentally both ended up liking. He couldn't make that offer though because he didn't want Zayna to misunderstand her friend.

So, he kept waiting for Sohail to show up and all this while he was brooding over losing a good chance of knowing the girl who had been haunting her ever since she walked out of that park, two years ago. And all the while, he was hoping that Sohail made an appearance soon, but Sohail showed up at the cafe, after almost an hour, although their office is just fifteen minutes away from the cafe.

Flashback*

Aftab and Sohail shared a great rapport. They have been friends since high school. Both studied together, has separate profession, yet both had been working together for an NGO. They were not only allies, but were like brothers and confidante to each other.

At first, Aftab had not mentioned about more to him, but when her thoughts kept bothering her, especially after the dream which he saw in which he had seen a noble man dressed in white appearing in front of him and asking him to seek her as she is her rightful match. He is not sure of who he had been. Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) himself or some angel, through whom Allah helps human know certain things about their life.

Though there had been rather a debate about dreams, that not all dreams are angelic and some might also be misguidance by Shaytaan, but somehow the lightness Aftab felt in his soul and the way the dream had comforted him, he was very sure that this dream was through positive sources and not a misguidance. He clearly remembered a few hadiths he read about Dreams and one of them being narrated by  Narrated by Abu Huraira: "I heard Allah's Messenger (saws) saying, "Nothing is left of the Prophetism except Al-Mubashshirat." They asked, "What are Al-Mubashshirat?" He (saws) replied, "The true good dreams (that conveys glad tidings)." - Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 9.119

Though to confirm any doubts, he had quickly checked through a trusted and authentic website that deals with dreams and informations from Sahih Bukhari and found  Hadith 9.144 Narrated by Abu Huraira in which he stated : "Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "When the Day of Resurrection approaches, the dreams of a believer will hardly fail to come true, and a dream of a believer is one of forty-six parts of Prophetism, and whatever belongs to Prothetism can never be false." Muhammad bin Sirin said, "But I say this." He said, "It used to be said, 'There are three types of dreams:

1.     The reflection of one's thoughts and experiences one has during wakefulness,

2.     what is suggested by Satan to frighten the dreamer,

3.     or glad tidings from Allah.

So, if someone has a dream which he dislikes, he should not tell it to others, but get up and offer a prayer.'"

And then he further read a question asked by a fellow Muslimah. Should a Muslim believe in dreams? To which the Shaykh had replied : "A Muslim should obviously believe in the concept of dreams, but not necessarily in the content of the dreams! The opinion of a Muslim who sincerely fears Allah and the Last Day is based on the Guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah alone and nothing else. Neither can the contents of a dream be a basis for modifying any of the beliefs endorsed by the Quran and the Sunnah, nor dismiss the contents of any dream be a foundation for modifying any of the laws of Shariah. Therefore in conclusion, one may apparently believe in the concept of dreams, but not necessarily in the substance of dreams!