Consequences

For example, hay for the one who owns it, is given it or has it in his possession, is indicative of wealth, because animals eat it and then it becomes meat, fat, milk, butter, wool and hair - all of which are wealth. It was narrated that Ibn Sireen passed by a pile of hay and said: Would that I could own it in a dream. If a person dreams that he is swimming in the sea and finds the water of the sea to be very hot, that indicates that he will be burned with fire. A man said: I dreamt that the water of the sea fell on my fee t and burned them. Shaykh Shihaab - ud - Deen said to him: Your feet will be burned with fire. The evidence for that is the reports which state that the sea will become fire. It was narrated that 'Ali (May Allah be please with him) said to a Kitaabi (i.e., a J ew or a Christian): Where do you find fire in your Books? He said: The sea. He said: I think he is telling the truth, and he recited the Verse: " And by the sea kept filled (or it will be fire kindled on the Day of Resurrection)." [Al - Toor 52:6] A man sa id to me: I dreamt that I was walking on the Siraat which had been set up over Hell, then I came out of it and entered Paradise. I said to him: You went for Hajj by sea. He said: You are right. The point here is that the Siraat represents ships, and the se a represents Hell. Makkah - may Allah honour it - represents Paradise, because entering it is a means of entering Paradise. So the cause takes the place of the effect. Makkah may also represent Paradise because the Black Stone is from Paradise. Moreover, P aradise is Haraam for the Kaafirs, and Makkah contains Al - Masjid Al - Haraam. Allah says: "O you who believe (in Allah's Oneness and in His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him))! Verily, the Mushrikoon (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and in the Message of Muhammad (Peace be upon him) ) are Najasun (impure). So let them not come near AlMasjid Al - Haraam (at Makkah) after this year." [Al - Tawbah 9:28] Another example is drinking intoxicants, which indicates falling into fitnah and sin, because Allah says: " Shaytaan (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling..." [Al - Maa'idah 5:90]