A ruling based on a dream

Question

Question: A few days ago a pious man of this place saw in a dream that in the house of his unmarried daughter there is a child (about her the imam of the village mosque had spread a rumour that she had contracted nikah, and had given the name of a fictitious witness; but because the witness denied it, the nikah was proven void (batil), and a fatwa was obtained from that famous madrasa, Dar al-‘Ulum Deoband).

Answer

A fatwa is not given on the basis of a dream. However, send the fatwa that you obtained; together with it there should also be the question on which the fatwa was given — then something can be known. The rule regarding a dream is that when one sees a disturbing dream, one should spit to the left side and recite: [ar]لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ[/ar] “There is no…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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