Immortal Dreams
\r\nA dream transports us from the narrowness of our present circumstances to the expansiveness of the future. It takes us from despair and gives us hope. It takes us from a state of fear to one of optimism and expectancy. A poor child may dream of an apple he can sink his teeth into or a comfortable bed to sleep in or a nice toy to play with. A person in fear dreams about safety and nothing else. Fear is the enemy of dreams. When a person is consumed with fear, it is as if they are bound in chains.
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\r\n There are those who confine and constrict people’s lives. The worst of those are the ones who constrict people’s dreams. They do not want to want people to dream or stretch their imaginations beyond their daily preoccupations.
Happiness is a dream.
\r\nSuccess is a dream.
\r\nFreedom is a dream. It is even so for the bird that flings itself at the bars of its cage longing for the sky, and the cat that mews and scratches at the door, longing for the field.
\r\nJustice is a collective dream, where the artificial distinctions between people are finally dissolved and everyone stands as equals before the authorities on Earth, and when it ultimately will happen in the Hereafter.
\r\nThe sense that you must contribute something to life, that you are sincere to a dream that you wait to realize … this is enough. It is the need to be an example of creativity or excellence or to contribute something original that opens up new horizons for others or provides an original and fresh configuration of older modes of action.
\r\nWhen you connect your dreams with Allah, they take on a timeless, immortal character. They cease being personal dreams and become dreams of the whole community. A worldly dream, when connected with Allah, can extend to the farthest horizons and stretch to the Hereafter where, with Allah’s grace, there is joy that cannot be comprehended on Earth.
\r\nThose who do not have the power to dream will never achieve anything. Be careful not to domesticate your dreams in order to bring them in line with the pessimistic, distorted and limited outlook of your present circumstances. Dream without limits. Let your imagination run free. Create your own imaginary world that will become the real and tangible world when you believe it can.
\r\nWe will excel as a nation when we possess dreams as numerous as the people who constitute it, or when those who have noble dreams take life by the collar and move forward. We will progress when our religious sermons start inspiring our dreams instead of stifling them.
\r\nWe should note that Martin Luther King said: “I had a dream.” He did not say: “I had a problem.”
\r\nIndeed, it was a problem that he was addressing, a problem that still exists. However, if we approach life as a problem, we are making things as difficult for us as we can possibly make them.
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\r\n \"I Had a Dream\" - Salman al-Oadah