This document provides steps to prevent a bad dream from affecting someone in real life according to Islamic teachings. The 5 steps are: 1) spit on your left side 3 times, 2) seek refuge in Allah from Satan 3 times, 3) seek refuge in Allah from the evil of the dream, 4) change the side you are lying on, and 5) do not disclose the dream to anyone. Hadith from Prophet Muhammad reinforce these steps and say that good dreams are from Allah while bad dreams are from Satan.

1. How to
prevent a bad
dream to
affect us in
the real life?

2. We have 5
steps to
follow.

3. 1. we should
spit on your
left side 3
times

4. 2.We should
seek refuge
in Allah from
the Satan
3 times

5. 3. We should
seek Refuge
with Allah from
evil of the
dream, for then
it will not harm
us .

6. 4.We should
change the
side on which
we were
lying.

7. 5.We should
not disclose
it to anyone.

8. Abu Qatada reported Allah's Messenger ( ‫ﷺ‬) as
saying:
• The good vision are from Allah and the evil
dreams are from the satan. If one sees a
dream which one does not like, one should
spit on one's left side and seek the refuge of
Allah from the satan; it will not do one any
harm, and one should not disclose it to
anyone and if one sees a good vision one
should feel pleased but should not disclose it
to anyone but whom one loves.
• Sahih Muslim

9. • Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him)
reported:
• Messenger of Allah ( ‫ﷺ‬) said, "When one
of you sees a bad dream let him blow
three times on his left, seek refuge in
Allah from the Satan three times (i.e., by
saying: A'udhu billahi minash-Shaitanir-
Rajim) and change the side on which he
was lying."
[Muslim].

10. Reference
Narrated Abu Qatada:
The Prophet ( ‫ﷺ‬) said, "A good dream is
from Allah, and a bad or evil dream is
from Satan; so if anyone of you has a
bad dream of which he gets afraid, he
should spit on his left side and should
seek Refuge with Allah from its evil, for
then it will not harm him."
Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari