(In a long Hadith) And it is transmitted from Al-Tirmizi...

(In a long Hadith) And it is transmitted from Al-Tirmizi, ‘It was said to Al-Sadiq -asws , ‘For long can the dream be delayed?’ He -asws mentioned a dream of Rasool-Allah -saww (i.e., martyrdom of his -saww grandson), its interpretation occurred after sixty years’.

[19] Ilham – Guidance in the Heart (Qalb): We get the ‘good-News’ (Ilham) or ‘bad-News’ (the Waswasa), the former comes from Allah ‑azwj and His -azwj Guides the Masomeen -asws while later is induced into our hearts by the Ibis -la to either corrupt the ‘good-News’ or seduce us into committing sins. However, these signals are so frequent that we, sometimes, are unable to distinguish them (between the good and the bad News) unless our souls are free from the filth of the sins.

We take an example of Ilham here. عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) هَلْ تَعْرِفُونَ طُولَ الْبَلَاءِ مِنْ قِصَرِهِ قُلْنَا لَا قَالَ إِذَا أُلْهِمَ أَحَدُكُمُ الدُّعَاءَ عِنْدَ الْبَلَاءِ فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الْبَلَاءَ قَصِيرٌ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘Are you recognising the lengthening of the affliction from its shortening?’ We said, ‘No’. He -asws said: ‘Whenever one of you is inspired for the supplication during the affliction, so he should know that the affliction is short (term)’.

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