Seeing the dead in a dream

Question

Question: This humble one very often sees dead people in his dreams. One day I saw myself: that I had died — and I wept. Another time I saw that I was digging my own grave. And sometimes I see sadhus (Hindu ascetics); the figures that appear to me are very frightening. Kindly inform me of the interpretation of this.

Answer

A person should not be heedless of his own death; rather, he should keep remembering it frequently. In the noble hadith both an emphatic instruction to do so and its virtue have come. Seeing the dead in a dream is also a reminder that everything here is impermanent: whoever has come here must certainly depart; the time of one’s stay here is fixed and limited, and there is no…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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