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Question No. 3628 10 September 2026 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

How is a dream about a deferred need connected to God’s hidden Name?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
Tracking code: #Q-3628

#Followup_to_question3627
Someone has had a particular need for years and dreams that they are told, “Your need is a deferred one, so don’t be impatient.”
Since this was the first time that person had heard the word *mustaʾthar* (“deferred”), what connection might the dream have to God’s Hidden Name?
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ

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A deferred need is being nurtured in God’s unseen treasuries, and God knows the best time and way to fulfill it. Impatience reflects a lack of trust in divine wisdom. Expand your capacity to receive this great blessing.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

It seems that your beautiful patience will bring you immense and unimaginable blessings. Divine grace will embrace you in a way you could never have imagined!

Trust in divine wisdom: God knows not only what you need, but also the best time and the best way to grant it. Your haste is a sign of impatience and a lack of trust in His wisdom.

Perhaps the journey matters more than the destination. Sometimes, by delaying the fulfilment of a need, God wishes to teach you profound lessons: patience, reliance upon Him, seeking forgiveness, and letting go of the ego’s desires, as well as unveiling great mysteries and hidden knowledge. This journey of purification may matter more than the fulfilment of the need itself.

Make all the necessary preparations; strengthen and enlarge the vessel. Perhaps you are not yet ready to receive what you have asked for. The delay is meant to expand your capacity to receive that great blessing.

Something better than what you asked for has been set aside for you!

Your need is being nurtured and brought to ripeness within God’s «اسم مستاثر»; it rests in His unseen treasures and has not been forgotten!

The All-Merciful, All-Knowing God has not forgotten you or your need. He cares for you so deeply that He has placed your need within His own treasuries!

Now, how will you call upon your Beloved and praise Him in the most beautiful way, in a state more exceptional and chosen than any other?

الله یعلم و اعلم

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