Does seeing our Prophet in a dream make everything that person does halal?

The Details of the Question

- Does seeing the Prophet in a dream indicate that the person will be more blessed and acceptable in the sight of Allah and that his unjust deeds will be accepted as appropriate?
1) I thought that many people who saw our Prophet were blessed, but I also guessed that some scholars did not see our Prophet in their dreams. Does it mean that their way of life is not blessed?
- Or can we not prefer their studies to the scholars who saw our Prophet?
2) Is every deed of a person who sees Muhammad (pbuh) in his dream considered halal?
3) Let us say that I found someone who did a bad and unjust act to people, and that person had a bad history that I witnessed or found out. The next day, I heard that he saw the Prophet (PBUH) in a dream. Can his unjust act be criticized as something bad? Some say that we cannot say that he did something bad because he saw the prophet; honestly, I respect him for the dream but his unfair work cannot be called “just/fair” or criticized because he saw our Prophet (pbuh) in his dream.

The Answer

Dear Brother / Sister,

It is a completely wrong, superstitious and ignorant idea to think that one will be freed from religious obligations by seeing the Prophet (pbuh) in a dream.

There is no Quranic verse or hadith stating that anyone who sees the Prophet in his dream will be free from any Islamic orders and prohibitions. On the contrary, those who see these holy dreams fear Allah more than other people and love and respect Allah and His Messenger more than anyone else.

Those who think otherwise are either mindless madmen or unscrupulous people enslaved by their souls. Therefore:

1) The measure of value in Islam is not beautiful dreams and spiritual miracles, but leading a steady life in the way shown by the Quran and the Sunnah.

2) If a person says, “all of the deeds of a person who sees the Prophet (pbuh) in his dream are halal”, it means that he does not know the religion of Islam. God forbid, he harms his belief with that statement.

3) According to the Islamic faith, no one is innocent except the prophets. A person might do both good deeds and bad deeds.

It is not permissible to say that some people are unbelievers because of their bad deeds/sins; similarly, it is not appropriate to look at their good deeds and view them as “great saints”. A “saint” will not fall from the rank of sainthood due to some of his sins; similarly, a “fasiq person” cannot fly from the rank of being a sinner to the rank of sainthood due to some good deeds he did or saw.

What matters is seeing a person who has a lot of good deeds as good/righteous and a saint; there is no harm in thinking that a person whose bad deeds outweigh his good deeds is among fasiqs. However, the person who makes this decision must not tear the veil of knowledge, deed, foresight, wisdom, fairness and impartiality.

“Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy, Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction. But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light,- Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit..”

This fact is underlined in the verses above (al-Qari’ah, 6-9) and similar ones.

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