When I was first taught Istikhara ,the responses wee considered all or none.If you saw red or black it meant a ‘no’ and if you saw green or white ,it was a ‘yes’.If you woke up in the morning feeling angst,it was a ‘no’ and if you woke up in peace,it was a ‘yes’.

Actually,especially in terms of dream symbolism, I have been seeing something else lately.Remember that all choices and all relationships have good and bad in them.Don’t expect Allah to show you anything less than the whole truth!Therefore you may be confronted with a negative aspect of a situation or person without this meaning a definitive ‘no’.It may just mean that you have to factor in that quality or consider it an obstacle or a challenge within the context of going forward with your choice.If you do not do so,you may find that all your choices are bad! -which ends up simply paralyzing you.

I hope this makes sense to some of my readers who ,like myself,are taking Istikhara seriously.Most people will continue,however,to just follow their minds as I mentioned in the last posting.Too bad,really.But Allah gives them that choice-it’s called free will-another mystery of the Universe,as people,in my observation,usually use it badly.. Salaams,Ibrahim