Hawzah News Agency - Question: My dreams are nightmares. Would you please show me a cure to my bad predicament before my youth wastes away?
Answer:
Some dreams — as psychologists have shown — are simply reflections of the worries a person carries while awake. To help yourself overcome these troubling dreams, follow these steps:
1. Purify your daily actions. Keep your activities free from anything unlawful. And if you slip, cleanse it immediately by seeking Allah’s forgiveness.
2. Be content with what Allah has given you — whether in wealth, appearance, health, or anything else.
3. Perform wudu (ablution) before sleeping and read a portion of the Holy Qur’an, and when you lie down, reflect on what you recited or drift into sleep with good, positive thoughts.
4. Remember that everyone who seems happy in life has faced problems too. No one’s life is free from hardship — even now. The difference is that wise people know that worry itself is a greater problem than the difficulties they face.
So why increase your burdens with worry when what you really need is to lighten them?
5. Remind yourself of your good deeds and accomplishments, not your failures. Everyone has bright pages in their life, and even the greatest people have shortcomings.
Dear young man, begin your journey toward Allah and rely on Him sincerely. He will carry you through.
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Source: "For a better future" by Hussain Ansariyan
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