A government website dedicated to interpretting people's dreams has seen a huge jump in visitors since it was featured in Gulf News.
The Dubai Department of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs launched two online services to give people a religious understanding of what their dreams mean according to the Islamic Sharia.Visitors can gain fatwas or religious instructions by submitting an overview of their dream and some details about themselves.
Adeeb Mohammed bin Lootah, the secretary of the Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Council at the Department, said the department is keen to provide a better alternative to many misleading interpretations provided by "amateurs and charlatans".
The dreams homepage is available on the department's website www.awqafdubai.gov.ae.
Sheikh Adeeb al Kamadani, an Islamic scholar at the department and a dreams interpreter, explained: "A group of eight meet and issue the fatwas after consultations. Then they refer to Dr Ahmad Abdul Aziz Al Haddad, the Assistant Director of Ifta' and Research who gives the final say or introduces any amendments if there are any.
"We are offering the service in light of one of the Prophet Mohammed's (PBUH) Hadeeth that supposedly means that good dreams come from God but bad ones come from the devil. Our interpretations or fatwas are extracted from the Holy Quran, Prophet's Sunna and based on clear scientific methods rather than hallucinations and superstitions."
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