{"id":11844,"date":"2018-03-12T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:46:47","slug":"the-dream-of-abdul-muttalib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=11844","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of &#8216;Abdul Muttalib"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=11707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11707\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Rasulullah-sallallahu-alaihi-wasallam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Rasulullah-sallallahu-alaihi-wasallam.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Rasulullah-sallallahu-alaihi-wasallam-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>When the rule of Makkah Mukarramah fell onto the shoulders of \u2018Abdul Muttalib and the divine will of Allah Ta\u2019ala decreed that the well which had been totally forgotten should now be rediscovered, He directed \u2018Abdul Muttalib, by means of pious dreams, to dig up the area of the well. Distinct markings and clues indicating to the whereabouts of the well were also revealed to him in the dream.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>\u2018Abdul Muttalib himself says:<\/p>\n<p>I was once asleep in the Hateem area when a person came to me in a dream and instructed, \u201cDig up Barrah (that which is full of blessing).\u201d As I enquired, \u201cWhat is Barrah?\u201d he departed. On the second day I was sleeping in the same spot when the same man again directed me in my dream, \u201cGo and dig up Al-Madhnunah (that which is treasured).\u201d When I asked him, \u201cWhat is Al-Madhnunah?\u201d he went away. On the third day, I was sleeping in the same spot when he again appeared in my dream and commanded, \u201cGo and dig up Tayyibah (that which is pure).\u201d As I enquired about Tayyibah, he once again left. On the fourth day, he ordered me, \u201cGo and dig up Zam Zam.\u201d Again I asked, \u201cWhat is Zam Zam?\u201d To this he replied, \u201cIt is a well, the water of which neither runs out nor decreases in volume, and it provides countless pilgrims with drinking water.\u201d He then went on to point out a few distinctive clues precisely indicating where I should dig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recurring nature of the dream coupled with a detailed location of the area convinced \u2018Abdul Muttalib that this was a true dream.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Extracted from Seeratul Mustafa 1\/35)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the rule of Makkah Mukarramah fell onto the shoulders of \u2018Abdul Muttalib and the divine will of Allah Ta\u2019ala decreed that the well which had been totally forgotten should now be rediscovered, He directed \u2018Abdul Muttalib, by means of pious dreams, to dig up the area of the well. Distinct markings and clues indicating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[796,663,62],"tags":[668,421,667],"class_list":["post-11844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-history","category-lineage-and-forefathers","category-seerah","tag-abdul-mutallib","tag-seerah","tag-zam-zam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}