The Baha'i Studies Listserv I'm curious if there is any specific guidance as to when a dream is "just" a dream or something more. In Islam there is said that Shaytan can't imitate the form of Muhammad (saaws) in a dream. so if you see him it must be a "true dream".
See http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=7&ID=1745&CATE=108 Perhaps that's where the assumption you refer to regarding the Central Figures comes from? On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:53 PM, David Regal <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > I am a rare Baha'i who is generally skeptical of Baha'i dreams, i.e., > whether they are from God. Many assume that if you have a Baha'i dream, > like about the Central Figures, it has to be sent from God. > > I find this to be nonsense. People have dreams about people they think of > a lot. Would it not be natural to expect we would sometimes have dreams > featuring the Central Figures? The claim that the dreams must be from God > carries the assumption that God would intervene so as not to allow someone > to have a dream of the Central Figures unless it was from God. I don't see > God as so interventionist. Furthermore, Shoghi Effendi said we can't be > sure these dreams are from God. > > It tends to take quite a bit to convince me the dream is likely from God, > such as the dream containing profound wisdom. > > Regards, > David > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-634464-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
