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For decades, a physical process has been continual in the Muslim world. Men and women without any cognition of the Sacred text and without any connection with Religions have been eternally changed after experiencing dreams and images of Jesus Christ. Documents of these spectral happenings frequently seed from "sealed states" where preaching the Sacred text is prohibited and where changing to Faith can conjure the death sentence. A democratic denominator seems to be that the dreams come to those who are seeking to experience and gratify divinity.
A California magazine recently published the results of a survey of over 600 ex-Muslims who now follow Jesus. "Although dream interpretation appeasr to play a minor role in the conversions of Westerners, over a quarter of those interviewed [as former Muslims] emphatically confirmed that dreams and visions played a vital role in their conversion, and helped them in difficult times," the survey said.
Throughout history, people have sought meaning in dreams or divination through dreams Al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership and membership appear to have been motivated, inspired, and guided by certain dreams. Their understanding of dreams seems to draw at least partly on traditional and contemporary Islamic dream theories. If this hypothesis is correct, then there is a need for the urgent study of Islamic Jihadist political/religious conversion and guidance dreams across the Middle East. The dreamas experienced, reported, and interpretedis now a significant aspect of the global conflict between Al-Qaeda and its associates versus the core value system of Western civilization.
Dreams and images of the prophecies and other essential Muslim attributes are average across the Islamic universe. Throughout yore dreams inspired non-Muslims to convert, and dream interpretation led Muslim pupils to especially well-suited instructors, and legalized regnant elites' plan of action. In the African circumstance, history has projected that the extended custom and value of dreams in Islam and African conventional faiths makes dreams "an excellent point of contact, providing good chances for that synchronization and spiritual combining which has so frequently been the opening of conversion." Among the following of Bale, a major Muslim deity in Ethiopia, the being of both Islamic and Oromo conventional religious beliefs and practices and the excess of dream narratives make dreams a phenomenon worth examining. I believe that analyzing these dreams will also reveal crucial features of the Shaykh Husayn tradition which are as yet unstudied.
