There is in sleep something mysterious which seems, from the earliest times, to have impressed man and aroused his curiosity. What philosophy of sleep sprang from the observation of phenomenon, we do not know; but like all phenomena the causes of which are not obvious, sleep came, in the course of time, to be considered as the effect of the Divine agency and as something sacred. We should very likely see a vestige of this simple and primitive philosophy in the reverence shown at all times by the Arabs to a man sleeping.
But the mystery of sleeping is enhanced by the phenomenon of dream which accompanies it. Primitive people, unable to explain the psychology of dreaming or to discover the causes of sleep, observed that, whereas man can, when awake, control his thoughts and fancies, yet he is utterly incapable, when in sleep, either of bringing about such dreams as he might wish, or of directing and ruling those that offer themselves to his faculties; hence they were led to attribute dreams to outside and supernatural agencies. The gods, whose power was believed to manifest itself in natural effects, such as thunderstorms and earthquakes, whose message were supposed to be written by signs in the heavens, could as well send their communication to men in dreams. Hence the persuasion arose that persons favoured by frequent dreams were sacred and chosen intermediaries between the deity and man.
Far from being cast aside by advancing civilization, these ideas developed with it, and were to a certain extent even systematized, as appears in particular from the records of the ancient peoples of the East. These all took it for granted that every dream expressed a Divine message. Most dreams came unsought; but occasionally supernatural communications were solicited by "incubation". The person desirous of obtaining a prophetic dream then betook himself to the temple of the deity from whom he expected instructions, and there slept, after some ritual preparation. Among the shrines known in antiquity for vouchsafing oracles to sleeping worshippers, the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus, where dreams were obtained in which remedies were revealed to cure diseases, the cave of Trophonius, the temple of Serapis, and that of Hathor, near the turquoise mines of the Sinai Peninsula, are the best known. As a last means to wrest the dream from a reluctant deity, magic was also resorted to. An interesting example of magical formulae used for this purpose is contained in a Gnostic papyrus of relatively late date preserved in the Leyden Museum; it is entitled "Agathocles' Recipe for sending a Dream", and may be read in Wiedemann's Religion der alten Egypter (p.144).
The meaning of the Divine message conveyed in dreams was sometimes obvious and unmistakable, as when the facts to be known were plain revealed by the deity himself or through the ministry of some messenger. Thus Thomas IV was instructed by Ra Hormakhu in a dream to dig out of the sand the statue of the Great Sphinx, near the place where he was sleeping. In like manner the early Babylonian king, Gudea, received the command to erect the temple Erinnu to Ninib. Of this description also were the dreams recorded in the annals of King Asshurbanipal. From these documents we learn that Asshur appeared in a dream to Gyges, King of Lydia, and said to him: "Embrace the feet of Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, and thou shalt conquer thy enemies by his name." Forthwith Gyges dispatched messengers to the Assyrian ruler to narrate this dream and pay him homage, and henceforth succeeded in conquering the Kimmerians. Another passage relates that, in the course of an expedition against Elam, as the Assyrian troops were afraid to cross the Itti River, Ishtar of Arba-ilu appeared to them in their sleep and said: "I go before Asshurbanipal, the king whom my hands have made." Encouraged by this vision, the army crossed the river ("West, As. Inscr.", vol.III; G. Smith, "Hist. Of Ashurbanipal"). The Divinely sent dream might also at times foreshow some coming event. Moreover, its meaning was not always clear and might be shrouded in symbols, or, if conveyed through oral communication, wrapped up in figures of speech. In either case, the knowledge of the significance of dream would depend on the interpretation. And as most dreams portend no clear message, the task of unfolding dream symbols and figures gradually grew into an art, more or less associated with soothsaying. Elaborate rules were laid down and handbooks compiled for the guidance of the priests in explaining the portent of the visions and symbols perceived by the inquirer in his sleep.
Many such manuals have been found in Assyria and Babylonia, the contents of which enable us to understand the principles followed in dream-interpretation. From Daniel 2:2 sqq., it would seem that the potherim or dream-interpreters, might be called upon even to discharge the perplexing task of recalling dreams forgotten by the dreamer. The instance here recorded cannot, however, be much insisted upon, as the context distinctly intimates that this task, impossible "except to the gods", yet imposed upon the Babylonian diviners by a whim of the king, was beyond their acknowledged attributions. Most of the Egyptian magic books likewise contain incantations either to procure or to explain dreams. There incantations had to be recited according to fixed cantillations, and the soothsayer's art consisted in knowing them thoroughly, copying them faithfully, and applying them properly. Side by side with this religious view of dreams, which regarded them as the expression of the will of god, there existed the superstitious view, according to which all dreams were considered as omens. Assuming "that things causally connected in thoughts are causally connected in fact" (Jevons), people blindly believed that their dreams had a bearing on their own fate, and eagerly strove to discover their significance.
Like the Eastern peoples, the Greeks and the Romans attached a religious significance to dreams. Of his belief many traces may be found in classical literature. Homer and Herodotus thought it natural that the gods should send dreams to men, even to deceive them, if need be, for the accomplishment of their higher ends (Agamemnon's dream). The same indications may be found also in the works of the dramatists (e.g. Clytemnestra's dream in the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus.) Plato, whilst regarding it as inconceivable that a god should deceive men, admitted nevertheless that dreams may come from the gods (Tim., cc, xlvi, xlvii). Aristotle was similarly of the opinion that there is a divinatory value in dreams (De Divin, per somn., ii). The teaching of the Stoics was along the same lines. If the gods, they said, love man and are omniscient as well as all-powerful, they certainly may disclose their purposes to man in sleep. Finally, in Greece and Rome, as well as in the East, the popular views of dreams went a great deal farther and developed into superstition. It was accordance with these views, and to gratify the cravings which they created that Daldianus Artemidorus compiled his "Oneirocritica", in which rules were laid down whereby any one could interpret his own dreams.
In the light of the belief and practices of the ancient peoples, we are better able to judge the belief and practices recorded in the Bible. That God may enter into communication with man through dreams is asserted in Numbers 12:6, and still more explicitly in Job 33:14 sqq.: "God speaketh once. . . By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn." As a matter of fact, Divine revelation through dreams occurs frequently in the Old and in the New Testament. In most of the cases recorded the dream is expressly said to come from God; of this description are, e.g., the dreams of Abimelech (Genesis 20:3); of Jacob (Genesis 28:12; 31:10); of Solomon (1 Kings 3:5-15); of Nabuchodonosor (Daniel 2:19); of Daniel (Daniel 7:1); of Joseph (Matthew 1:20; 3:13); of St. Paul (Acts 23:11; 27:23), unless we should interpret these passages as referring to visions granted to the Apostle while awake. God is said to appear Himself only in a few instances, as to Abimelech, to Jacob, to Solomon, and to Daniel, if, as is generally admitted, the "Ancient of days", spoken of in this connection, should be understood to be God; in other instances He is said to speak through an angel, as in dreams narrated by St. Matthew and St. Paul. The Bible records other dreams, which, though prophetic, are not distinctly said to come from God (Genesis 37:6; 40:5; 41:1; Judges 7:13; 2 Maccabees 15:11). It appears, however, from the circumstances and from their prophetic import, that their Divine origin cannot be doubted; at least their interpretation is declared (Genesis 40:8) to "belong to God". Accepting the historical truth of these facts, there is no reason indeed why God should not use dreams as a means of manifesting His will to man. God is omniscient and all-powerful, and He loves man; He may, therefore, in order to disclose his purposes, choose natural as well as supernatural means. Now dreaming, as a natural psycho-physiological phenomenon, has undoubtedly its laws which, however obscure they may be to man, are established by God, and obey His bidding. But since man may be easily deluded, it is needful that God in using natural causes should supply such evidences as will make His intervention unmistakable. Sometimes these evidences are manifested to the dreamer, at other times to the interpreter, if one be necessary; but they will never fail. The analogy of the foregoing reasons with those brought forward by theologians to prove the possibility of revelation is readily perceived. In fact, there is here more than a mere analogy; for communication by dreams is but one of the many ways God may select to manifest His designs to man; there is between them a relation of species to genus, and one could not deny either without denying the possibility of a supernatural order.
All the dreams actually recorded in Holy Writ came unsought. Some scholars infer from the words of Saul (1 Samuel 28:15): "God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams", that the practice of deliberately seeking supernatural dreams was not unknown in Israel. The words just quoted, however, do not necessarily imply such a meaning, but may as well be interpreted of unsought prophetic dreams. Still less can it be asserted that the Israelites would seek prophetic dreams by resorting to a well-known sanctuary and sleeping there. The two instances sometimes adduced in this connection, namely the dream of Jacob at Bethel (Genesis 28:12-19) and that of Solomon at Gabaon (1 Kings 3:5-15), do not bear out such an affirmation. In both cases the dream far from being sought, was unexpected; moreover, with regard to the former, it is evident from the narration that Jacob was quite unaware beforehand of the holiness of the place he slept in. His inference on the next morning as to its sacredness was inspired by the object of the dream, and his conduct in this circumstance seems even to betray some fear of having unknowingly defiled it by sleeping there.
It should be concluded from the above remarks that there were no errors with regard to dreams and dream-interpretation in the minds of individual Israelites. Like their neighbours, they had a tendency to consider all dreams as omens, and attach importance to their significance. But this tendency was constantly held in check by the more enlightened and more religious part of the nation. Besides the prohibition to "observe dreams", embodied in the Law (Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10), the Prophets, from the eighth century B.C. onwards, repeatedly warned the people against giving "heed to their dreams which they dream" (Jeremiah 29:8). "Dreams follow many cares", says Ecclesiastes 5:2; and Ben Sirach wisely adds that "dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them" (Sirach 34:7). This was, according to 2 Chronicles 33:6, one of the faults which brought about the downfall of Manasses. Above all, the Israelites were warned in every manner against trusting in the pretended dreams of false prophets: "Behold, I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord" (Jeremiah 23:32; cf. Zechariah 10:2; etc). From these and other indications it appears that the religion of Israel was kept pure from superstition connected with dreams. True, a mere glance at the respective dates of the above-quoted passages suggest that the zeal of the prophets was of little avail, at least for certain classes of people. The evil opposed by them continued in vogue down to the Exile, and even after the Restoration; but it is scarcely necessary to remark how unjust it would be to hold the Jewish religion responsible for the abuses of individual persons. Neither did there exist at any time in Israel a class of diviners making it their business to interpret the dreams of their country-men; there were no potherim among the temple-officials, nor later around the synagogues. The very few dream-interpreters spoken of in the Bible, as Joseph and Daniel, were especially commissioned by God in exceptional circumstances. Nor did they resort to natural skills or art; their interpretations were suggested to them by the Divine intellect enlightening their minds; "interpretation belongs to God", as Joseph declared to his fellow-prisoners. Undoubtedly there were among the people some soothsayers ever ready to profit by the curiosity of weaker and credulous minds; but as they possessed no authority and as they were condemned both by God and by the higher religious consciousness of the community, they practised their art in secret.
That certain dreams may be caused by God seemed to be acknowledged without controversy by the early Fathers of the Church and the ecclesiastical writers. This opinion they based mainly on Biblical authority; occasionally they appeared to the authority of classical writers. Agreeably to this doctrine, it was admitted likewise that the interpretation of supernatural dreams belongs to God who sends them, and who must manifest it either to the dreamer or to an authorized interpreter. The divine intervention in man's dreams is an exceptional occurrence; dreaming, on the contrary, is a most common fact. We may inquire, therefore, how the official guardians of Faith viewed ordinary and natural dreams. In general they repeated to the Christians the prohibitions and warnings of the Old Testament, and denounced in particular the superstitious tendency to consider dreams as omens. It may suffice in this connection to recall the names of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Gregory the Great, whose teaching on the question at issue is clear and emphatic. A few, however, held opinions somewhat at variance with the traditional view. Among them the most noteworthy is Synesius of Cyrene (about 370-413), who is the author of a very strange treatise on dreams. Starting from the Platonic anthropological trichotomy, and from certain psychological hypotheses of Plato and Plotinus, he attributed the imagination a manifestly exaggerated role. Above all the arts of divination, the lawful use of which he did not seem to doubt, he extolled dreaming as the simplest and surest mode of prophesying. We know that he had accepted the episcopacy only on the condition that he might continue to hold certain favourite philosophic ideas; and it is reasonable to suppose that his theories on dreams were included in the compact.
Medieval theologians added to the reasonings of their predecessors a more careful, and to some extent more scientific, study of the phenomena of sleep; but they found no reason to depart from the moral principles contained in the writings of the Fathers. Suffice it here to quote St. Thomas Aquinas, who summarizes the best teaching of the Schoolmen. To the query: Is divination through dreams unlawful? -- he replies: The whole question consists in determining the cause of dreams, and examining whether the same may be the cause of future events, or at least come to the actual knowledge of them. Dreams come sometimes from internal, and sometimes from external, causes. Two kinds of internal causes influence our dreams: one animal, inasmuch as such images remain in a sleeping man's fantasy as were dwelt upon by him while awake; the other found in the body: it is indeed a well-known fact that the actual disposition of the body causes a reaction on the fantasy. Now it is self-evidence that neither of these causes has any influence on individual future events. Our dreams may likewise be the effects of a twofold external cause. This is corporeal when exterior agencies, such as the atmospheric conditions or others, act on the imagination of the sleeper. Finally dreams may be caused by spiritual agents, such as God, directly, or indirectly through his angels, and the devil. It is easy to conclude thence what chances there are to know the future from dreams, and when divination will be lawful or unlawful (II-II:95:6).
Modern theologians, whilst profiting by the progress of psychological research, continue to admit the possibility of dreams supernatural in their origin, and consequently the possibility of dream-interpretation depending on supernatural communications. As to ordinary dreams, they readily grant that, because the imaginative faculties of man acquire sometimes a keenness which they do not possess otherwise, it is possible in such cases to conjecture with a certain degree of probability some future events; but in all other cases, by far the most common, it is useless and illogical to attempt any interpretation. As a matter of fact dreams are now -- we speak of civilized peoples -- seldom heeded; only very ignorant and superstitious persons ponder over the "dictionaries of dreams" and the "keys to the interpretation of dreams" once so much in favour. "As idle as a dream" has become a proverb expressive of the popular mind on the subject, and indicating sufficiently that there is little need nowadays to revive the laws and canons enacted in past ages against divination through dreams
Interpretation of Dreams
From the Catholic Encyclopedia
There is in sleep something mysterious which seems, from the earliest times, to have impressed man and aroused his curiosity. What philosophy of sleep sprang from the observation of phenomenon, we do not know; but like all phenomena the causes of which are not obvious, sleep came, in the course of time, to be considered as the effect of the Divine agency and as something sacred. We should very likely see a vestige of this simple and primitive philosophy in the reverence shown at all times by the Arabs to a man sleeping.
But the mystery of sleeping is enhanced by the phenomenon of dream which accompanies it. Primitive people, unable to explain the psychology of dreaming or to discover the causes of sleep, observed that, whereas man can, when awake, control his thoughts and fancies, yet he is utterly incapable, when in sleep, either of bringing about such dreams as he might wish, or of directing and ruling those that offer themselves to his faculties; hence they were led to attribute dreams to outside and supernatural agencies. The gods, whose power was believed to manifest itself in natural effects, such as thunderstorms and earthquakes, whose message were supposed to be written by signs in the heavens, could as well send their communication to men in dreams. Hence the persuasion arose that persons favoured by frequent dreams were sacred and chosen intermediaries between the deity and man.
Far from being cast aside by advancing civilization, these ideas developed with it, and were to a certain extent even systematized, as appears in particular from the records of the ancient peoples of the East. These all took it for granted that every dream expressed a Divine message. Most dreams came unsought; but occasionally supernatural communications were solicited by "incubation". The person desirous of obtaining a prophetic dream then betook himself to the temple of the deity from whom he expected instructions, and there slept, after some ritual preparation. Among the shrines known in antiquity for vouchsafing oracles to sleeping worshippers, the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus, where dreams were obtained in which remedies were revealed to cure diseases, the cave of Trophonius, the temple of Serapis, and that of Hathor, near the turquoise mines of the Sinai Peninsula, are the best known. As a last means to wrest the dream from a reluctant deity, magic was also resorted to. An interesting example of magical formulae used for this purpose is contained in a Gnostic papyrus of relatively late date preserved in the Leyden Museum; it is entitled "Agathocles' Recipe for sending a Dream", and may be read in Wiedemann's Religion der alten Egypter (p.144).
The meaning of the Divine message conveyed in dreams was sometimes obvious and unmistakable, as when the facts to be known were plain revealed by the deity himself or through the ministry of some messenger. Thus Thomas IV was instructed by Ra Hormakhu in a dream to dig out of the sand the statue of the Great Sphinx, near the place where he was sleeping. In like manner the early Babylonian king, Gudea, received the command to erect the temple Erinnu to Ninib. Of this description also were the dreams recorded in the annals of King Asshurbanipal. From these documents we learn that Asshur appeared in a dream to Gyges, King of Lydia, and said to him: "Embrace the feet of Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, and thou shalt conquer thy enemies by his name." Forthwith Gyges dispatched messengers to the Assyrian ruler to narrate this dream and pay him homage, and henceforth succeeded in conquering the Kimmerians. Another passage relates that, in the course of an expedition against Elam, as the Assyrian troops were afraid to cross the Itti River, Ishtar of Arba-ilu appeared to them in their sleep and said: "I go before Asshurbanipal, the king whom my hands have made." Encouraged by this vision, the army crossed the river ("West, As. Inscr.", vol.III; G, Smith, "Hist. Of Ashurbanipal"). The Divinely sent dream might also at times foreshow some coming event. Moreover, its meaning was not always clear and might be shrouded in symbols, or, if conveyed through oral communication, wrapped up in figures of speech. In either case, the knowledge of the significance of dream would depend on the interpretation. And as most dreams portend no clear message, the task of unfolding dream symbols and figures gradually grew into an art, more or less associated with soothsaying. Elaborate rules were laid down and handbooks compiled for the guidance of the priests in explaining the portent of the visions and symbols perceived by the inquirer in his sleep.
Many such manuals have been found in Assyria and Babylonia, the contents of which enable us to understand the principles followed in dream-interpretation. From Dan.,ii,2 sqq., it would seem that the potherim or dream-interpreters, might be called upon even to discharge the perplexing task of recalling dreams forgotten by the dreamer. The instance here recorded cannot, however, be much insisted upon, as the context distinctly intimates that this task, impossible "except to the gods", yet imposed upon the Babylonian diviners by a whim of the king, was beyond their acknowledged attributions. Most of the Egyptian magic books likewise contain incantations either to procure or to explain dreams. There incantations had to be recited according to fixed cantillations, and the soothsayer's art consisted in knowing them thoroughly, copying them faithfully, and applying them properly. Side by side with this religious view of dreams, which regarded them as the expression of the will of god, there existed the superstitious view, according to which all dreams were considered as omens. Assuming "that things causally connected in thoughts are causally connected in fact" (Jevons), people blindly believed that their dreams had a bearing on their own fate, and eagerly strove to discover their significance.
Like the Eastern peoples, the Greeks and the Romans attached a religious significance to dreams. Of his belief many traces may be found in classical literature. Homer and Herodotus thought it natural that the gods should send dreams to men, even to deceive them, if need be, for the accomplishment of their higher ends (Agamemnon's dream). The same indications may be found also in the works of the dramatists (e.g. Clytemnestra's dream in the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus.) Plato, whilst regarding it as inconceivable that a god should deceive men, admitted nevertheless that dreams may come from the gods (Tim., cc, xlvi, xlvii). Aristotle was similarly of the opinion that there is a divinatory value in dreams (De Divin, per somn., ii). The teaching o Stpocs was along the same lines. If the gods, they said, love man and are omniscient as well as all-powerful, they certainly may disclose their purposes to man in sleep. Finally, in Greece and Rome, as well as in the East, the popular views of dreams went a great deal farther and developed into superstition. It was accordance with these views, and to gratify the cravings which they created that Daldianus Artemidorus compiled his "Oneirocritica", in which rules were laid down whereby any one could interpret his own dreams.
In the light of the belief and practices of the ancient peoples, we are better able to judge the belief and practices recorded in the Bible. That God may enter into communication with man through dreams is asserted in Numbers 12:6, and still more explicitly in Job 33:14 sqq.: "God speaketh once. . . By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn." As a matter of fact, Divine revelation through dreams occurs frequently in the Old and in the New Testament. In most of the cases recorded the dream is expressly said to come from God; of this description are, e.g., the dreams of Abimelech (Gen.,xx,3); of Jacob (Gen.,xxviii,12;xxxi,10); of Solomon (IIIK.,iii,5-15); of Nabuchodonosor (Dan.,ii,19); of Daniel (Dan., vii,1); of Joseph (Matth.,i,20;iii,13); of St. Paul (Acts,xxiii,11;xxvii,23), unless we should interpret these passages as referring to visions granted to the Apostle while awake. God is said to appear Himself only in a few instances, as to Abimelech, to Jacob, to Solomon,and to Daniel, if, as is generally admitted, the "Ancient of days", spoken of in this connection, should be understood to be God; in other instances He is said to speak through an angel, as in dreams narrated by St. Matthew and St. Paul. The Bible records other dreams, which, though prophetic, are not distinctly said to come from God (Gen,xxxvii,6; xl,5;xli,1; Judges,vii,13; II Mach., xv,11). It appears, however, from the circumstances and from their prophetic import, that their Divine origin cannot be doubted; at least their interpretation is declared (Gen., xl,8) to "belong to God". Accepting the historical truth of these facts, there is no reason indeed why God should not use dreams as a means of manifesting His will to man. God is omniscient and all-powerful, and He loves man; He may, therefore, in order to disclose his purposes, choose natural as well as supernatural means. Now dreaming, as a natural psycho-physiological phenomenon, has undoubtedly its laws, which, however obscure they may be to man, are established by God, and obey His bidding. But since man may be easily deluded, it is needful that God in using natural causes should supply such evidences as will make His intervention unmistakable. Sometimes these evidences are manifested to the dreamer, at other times to the interpreter, if one be necessary; but they will never fail. The analogy of the foregoing reasons with those brought forward by theologians to prove the possibility of revelation is readily perceived. In fact, there is here more than a mere analogy; for communication by dreams is but one of the many ways God may select to manifest His designs to man; there is between them a relation of species to genus, and one could not deny either without denying the possibility of a supernatural order.
All the dreams actually recorded in Holy Writ came unsought. Some scholars infer from the words of Saul (I K.,xxviii,15): "God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams", that the practice of deliberately seeking supernatural dreams was not unknown in Israel. The words just quoted, however, do not necessarily imply such a meaning, but may as well be interpreted of unsought prophetic dreams. Still less can it be asserted that the Israelites would seek prophetic dreams by resorting to a well-known sanctuary and sleeping there. The two instances sometimes adduced in this connection, namely the dream of Jacob at Bethel (Gen.,xxviii,12-19) and that of Solomon at Gabaon (III.K.,iii,5-15), do not bear out such an affirmation. In both cases the dream far from being sought, was unexpected; moreover, with regard to the former, it is evident from the narration that Jacob was quite unaware beforehand of the holiness of the place he slept in. His inference on the next morning as to its sacredness was inspired by the object of the dream, and his conduct in this circumstance seems even to betray some fear of having unknowingly defiled it by sleeping there.
It should be concluded from the above remarks that there were no errors with regard to dreams and dream-interpretation in the minds of individual Israelites. Like their neighbours, they had a tendency to consider all dreams as omens, and attach importance to their significance. But this tendency was constantly held in check by the more enlightened and more religious part of the nation. Besides the prohibition to "observe dreams", embodied in the Law (Lev.,xix,26; Deut.,xviii,10), the Prophets, from the eighth century B.C. onwards, repeatedly warned the people against giving "heed to their dreams which they dream" (Jer.,xxix,8). "Dreams follow many cares", says Ecclesiastes (v,2); and Ben Sirach wisely adds that "dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them" (Ecclus.,xxxiv,7). This was, according to II Par., xxxiii,6, one of the faults which brought about the downfall of Manasses. Above all, the Israelites were warned in every manner against trusting in the pretended dreams of false prophets: "Behold, I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord" (Jer.,xxiii,32;cf. Zach.,x,2;etc). From these and other indications it appears that the religion of Israel was kept pure from superstition connected with dreams. True, a mere glance at the respective dates of the above-quoted passages suggest that the zeal of the prophets was of little avail, at least for certain classes of people. The evil opposed by them continued in vogue down to the Exile, and even after the Restoration; but it is scarcely necessary to remark how unjust it would be to hold the Jewish religion responsible for the abuses of individual persons. Neither did there exist at any time in Israel a class of diviners making it their business to interpret the dreams of their country-men; there were no potherim among the temple-officials, nor later around the synagogues. The very few dream-interpreters spoken of in the Bible, as Joseph and Daniel, were especially commissioned by God in exceptional circu mstances. Nor did they resort to natural skills or art; their interpretations were suggested to them by the Divine intellect enlightening their minds; "interpretation belongs to God", as Joseph declared to his fellow-prisoners. Undoubtedly there were among the people some soothsayers ever ready to profit by the curiosity of weaker and credulous minds; but as they possessed no authority and as they were condemned both by God and by the higher religious consciousness of the community, they practised their art in secret.
That certain dreams may be caused by God seemed to be acknowledged without controversy by the early Fathers of the Church and the ecclesiastical writers. This opinion they based mainly on Biblical authority; occasionally they appearled to the authority of classical writers. Agreeably to this doctrine, it was admitted likewise that the interpretation of supernatural dreams belongs to God who sends them, and who must manifest it either to the dreamer or to an authorized interpreter. The divine intervention in man's dreams is an exceptional occurrence; dreaming, on the contrary, is a most common fact. We may inquire, therefore, how the official guardians of Faith viewed ordinary and natural dreams. In general they repeated to the Christians the prohibitions and warnings of the Old Testament, and denounced in particular the superstitious tendency to consider dreams as omens. It may suffice in this connection to recall the names of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Gregory the Great, whose teaching on the question at issue is clear and emphatic. A few, however, held opinions somewhat at variance with the traditional view. Among them the most noteworthy is Synesius of Cyrene (about 370-413), who is the author of a very strange treatise on dreams. Starting from the Platonic anthropological trichotomy, and from certain psychological hypotheses of Plato and Plotinus, he attributed the imagination a manifestly exaggerated role. Above all the arts of divination, the lawful use of which he did not seem to doubt, he extolled dreaming as the simplest and surest mode of prophesying. We know that he had accepted the episcopacy only on the condition that he might continue to hold certain favourite philosophic ideas; and it is reasonable to suppose that his theories on dreams were included in the compact.
Medieval theologians added to the reasonings of their predecessors a more careful, and to some extent more scientific, study of the phenomena of sleep; but they found no reason to depart from the moral principles contained in the writings of the Fathers. Suffice it here to quote St. Thomas Aquinas, who summarizes the best teaching of the Schoolmen. To the query: Is divination through dreams unlawful? -- he replies: The whole question consists in determining the cause of dreams, and examining whether the same may be the cause of future events, or at least come to the actual knowledge of them. Dreams come sometimes from internal, and sometimes from external, causes. Two kinds of internal causes influence our dreams: one animal, inasmuch as such images remain in a sleeping man's fantasy as were dwelt upon by him while awake; the other found in the body: it is indeed a well-known fact that the actual disposition of the body causes a reaction on the fantasy. Now it is self-evidence that neither of these causes has any influence on individual future events. Our dreams may likewise be the effects of a twofold external cause. This is corporeal when exterior agencies, such as the atmospheric conditions or others, act on the imagination of the sleeper. Finally dreams may be caused by spiritual agents, such as God, directly, or indirectly through his angels, and the devil. It is easy to conclude thence what chances there are to know the future from dreams, and when divination will be lawful or unlawful (II-II:95:6).
Modern theologians, whilst profiting by the progress of psychological research, continue to admit the possibility of dreams supernatural in their origin, and consequently the possibility of dream-interpretation depending on supernatural communications. As to ordinary dreams, they readily grant that, because the imaginative faculties of man acquire sometimes a keenness which they do not possess otherwise, it is possible in such cases to conjecture with a certain degree of probability some future events; but in all other cases, by far the most common, it is useless and illogical to attempt any interpretation. As a matter of fact dreams are now -- we speak of civilized peoples -- seldom heeded; only very ignorant and superstitious persons ponder over the "dictionaries of dreams" and the "keys to the interpretation of dreams" once so much in favour. "As idle as a dream" has become a proverb expressive of the popular mind on the subject, and indicating sufficiently that there is little need nowadays to revive the laws and canons enacted in past ages against divination through dreams.
BOUCHE-LECLERCQ, Histoire de la Divination (Paris, 1879); LENORMANT, la divination et la science des presages chez les Chaldeens (Paris, 1875); LEHMANN, Aberglaube und Zauberei (Stuttgart, 1898); SCHANZ in Kirhenlex.,s.v. Traumdeuterei; LADD, Doctrine of Sacred Scripture (New York, 1883); REYNOLDS, Natural History of Immortality (1891).
CHARLES L. SOUVAY
There is in sleep something mysterious which seems, from the earliest times, to have impressed man and aroused his curiosity. What philosophy of sleep sprang from the observation of phenomenon, we do not know; but like all phenomena the causes of which are not obvious, sleep came, in the course of time, to be considered as the effect of the Divine agency and as something sacred. We should very likely see a vestige of this simple and primitive philosophy in the reverence shown at all times by the Arabs to a man sleeping.
But the mystery of sleeping is enhanced by the phenomenon of dream which accompanies it. Primitive people, unable to explain the psychology of dreaming or to discover the causes of sleep, observed that, whereas man can, when awake, control his thoughts and fancies, yet he is utterly incapable, when in sleep, either of bringing about such dreams as he might wish, or of directing and ruling those that offer themselves to his faculties; hence they were led to attribute dreams to outside and supernatural agencies. The gods, whose power was believed to manifest itself in natural effects, such as thunderstorms and earthquakes, whose message were supposed to be written by signs in the heavens, could as well send their communication to men in dreams. Hence the persuasion arose that persons favoured by frequent dreams were sacred and chosen intermediaries between the deity and man.
Far from being cast aside by advancing civilization, these ideas developed with it, and were to a certain extent even systematized, as appears in particular from the records of the ancient peoples of the East. These all took it for granted that every dream expressed a Divine message. Most dreams came unsought; but occasionally supernatural communications were solicited by "incubation". The person desirous of obtaining a prophetic dream then betook himself to the temple of the deity from whom he expected instructions, and there slept, after some ritual preparation. Among the shrines known in antiquity for vouchsafing oracles to sleeping worshippers, the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus, where dreams were obtained in which remedies were revealed to cure diseases, the cave of Trophonius, the temple of Serapis, and that of Hathor, near the turquoise mines of the Sinai Peninsula, are the best known. As a last means to wrest the dream from a reluctant deity, magic was also resorted to. An interesting example of magical formulae used for this purpose is contained in a Gnostic papyrus of relatively late date preserved in the Leyden Museum; it is entitled "Agathocles' Recipe for sending a Dream", and may be read in Wiedemann's Religion der alten Egypter (p.144).
The meaning of the Divine message conveyed in dreams was sometimes obvious and unmistakable, as when the facts to be known were plain revealed by the deity himself or through the ministry of some messenger. Thus Thomas IV was instructed by Ra Hormakhu in a dream to dig out of the sand the statue of the Great Sphinx, near the place where he was sleeping. In like manner the early Babylonian king, Gudea, received the command to erect the temple Erinnu to Ninib. Of this description also were the dreams recorded in the annals of King Asshurbanipal. From these documents we learn that Asshur appeared in a dream to Gyges, King of Lydia, and said to him: "Embrace the feet of Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, and thou shalt conquer thy enemies by his name." Forthwith Gyges dispatched messengers to the Assyrian ruler to narrate this dream and pay him homage, and henceforth succeeded in conquering the Kimmerians. Another passage relates that, in the course of an expedition against Elam, as the Assyrian troops were afraid to cross the Itti River, Ishtar of Arba-ilu appeared to them in their sleep and said: "I go before Asshurbanipal, the king whom my hands have made." Encouraged by this vision, the army crossed the river ("West, As. Inscr.", vol.III; G, Smith, "Hist. Of Ashurbanipal"). The Divinely sent dream might also at times foreshow some coming event. Moreover, its meaning was not always clear and might be shrouded in symbols, or, if conveyed through oral communication, wrapped up in figures of speech. In either case, the knowledge of the significance of dream would depend on the interpretation. And as most dreams portend no clear message, the task of unfolding dream symbols and figures gradually grew into an art, more or less associated with soothsaying. Elaborate rules were laid down and handbooks compiled for the guidance of the priests in explaining the portent of the visions and symbols perceived by the inquirer in his sleep.
Many such manuals have been found in Assyria and Babylonia, the contents of which enable us to understand the principles followed in dream-interpretation. From Dan.,ii,2 sqq., it would seem that the potherim or dream-interpreters, might be called upon even to discharge the perplexing task of recalling dreams forgotten by the dreamer. The instance here recorded cannot, however, be much insisted upon, as the context distinctly intimates that this task, impossible "except to the gods", yet imposed upon the Babylonian diviners by a whim of the king, was beyond their acknowledged attributions. Most of the Egyptian magic books likewise contain incantations either to procure or to explain dreams. There incantations had to be recited according to fixed cantillations, and the soothsayer's art consisted in knowing them thoroughly, copying them faithfully, and applying them properly. Side by side with this religious view of dreams, which regarded them as the expression of the will of god, there existed the superstitious view, according to which all dreams were considered as omens. Assuming "that things causally connected in thoughts are causally connected in fact" (Jevons), people blindly believed that their dreams had a bearing on their own fate, and eagerly strove to discover their significance.
Like the Eastern peoples, the Greeks and the Romans attached a religious significance to dreams. Of his belief many traces may be found in classical literature. Homer and Herodotus thought it natural that the gods should send dreams to men, even to deceive them, if need be, for the accomplishment of their higher ends (Agamemnon's dream). The same indications may be found also in the works of the dramatists (e.g. Clytemnestra's dream in the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus.) Plato, whilst regarding it as inconceivable that a god should deceive men, admitted nevertheless that dreams may come from the gods (Tim., cc, xlvi, xlvii). Aristotle was similarly of the opinion that there is a divinatory value in dreams (De Divin, per somn., ii). The teaching o Stpocs was along the same lines. If the gods, they said, love man and are omniscient as well as all-powerful, they certainly may disclose their purposes to man in sleep. Finally, in Greece and Rome, as well as in the East, the popular views of dreams went a great deal farther and developed into superstition. It was accordance with these views, and to gratify the cravings which they created that Daldianus Artemidorus compiled his "Oneirocritica", in which rules were laid down whereby any one could interpret his own dreams.
In the light of the belief and practices of the ancient peoples, we are better able to judge the belief and practices recorded in the Bible. That God may enter into communication with man through dreams is asserted in Numbers 12:6, and still more explicitly in Job 33:14 sqq.: "God speaketh once. . . By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn." As a matter of fact, Divine revelation through dreams occurs frequently in the Old and in the New Testament. In most of the cases recorded the dream is expressly said to come from God; of this description are, e.g., the dreams of Abimelech (Gen.,xx,3); of Jacob (Gen.,xxviii,12;xxxi,10); of Solomon (IIIK.,iii,5-15); of Nabuchodonosor (Dan.,ii,19); of Daniel (Dan., vii,1); of Joseph (Matth.,i,20;iii,13); of St. Paul (Acts,xxiii,11;xxvii,23), unless we should interpret these passages as referring to visions granted to the Apostle while awake. God is said to appear Himself only in a few instances, as to Abimelech, to Jacob, to Solomon,and to Daniel, if, as is generally admitted, the "Ancient of days", spoken of in this connection, should be understood to be God; in other instances He is said to speak through an angel, as in dreams narrated by St. Matthew and St. Paul. The Bible records other dreams, which, though prophetic, are not distinctly said to come from God (Gen,xxxvii,6; xl,5;xli,1; Judges,vii,13; II Mach., xv,11). It appears, however, from the circumstances and from their prophetic import, that their Divine origin cannot be doubted; at least their interpretation is declared (Gen., xl,8) to "belong to God". Accepting the historical truth of these facts, there is no reason indeed why God should not use dreams as a means of manifesting His will to man. God is omniscient and all-powerful, and He loves man; He may, therefore, in order to disclose his purposes, choose natural as well as supernatural means. Now dreaming, as a natural psycho-physiological phenomenon, has undoubtedly its laws, which, however obscure they may be to man, are established by God, and obey His bidding. But since man may be easily deluded, it is needful that God in using natural causes should supply such evidences as will make His intervention unmistakable. Sometimes these evidences are manifested to the dreamer, at other times to the interpreter, if one be necessary; but they will never fail. The analogy of the foregoing reasons with those brought forward by theologians to prove the possibility of revelation is readily perceived. In fact, there is here more than a mere analogy; for communication by dreams is but one of the many ways God may select to manifest His designs to man; there is between them a relation of species to genus, and one could not deny either without denying the possibility of a supernatural order.
All the dreams actually recorded in Holy Writ came unsought. Some scholars infer from the words of Saul (I K.,xxviii,15): "God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams", that the practice of deliberately seeking supernatural dreams was not unknown in Israel. The words just quoted, however, do not necessarily imply such a meaning, but may as well be interpreted of unsought prophetic dreams. Still less can it be asserted that the Israelites would seek prophetic dreams by resorting to a well-known sanctuary and sleeping there. The two instances sometimes adduced in this connection, namely the dream of Jacob at Bethel (Gen.,xxviii,12-19) and that of Solomon at Gabaon (III.K.,iii,5-15), do not bear out such an affirmation. In both cases the dream far from being sought, was unexpected; moreover, with regard to the former, it is evident from the narration that Jacob was quite unaware beforehand of the holiness of the place he slept in. His inference on the next morning as to its sacredness was inspired by the object of the dream, and his conduct in this circumstance seems even to betray some fear of having unknowingly defiled it by sleeping there.
It should be concluded from the above remarks that there were no errors with regard to dreams and dream-interpretation in the minds of individual Israelites. Like their neighbours, they had a tendency to consider all dreams as omens, and attach importance to their significance. But this tendency was constantly held in check by the more enlightened and more religious part of the nation. Besides the prohibition to "observe dreams", embodied in the Law (Lev.,xix,26; Deut.,xviii,10), the Prophets, from the eighth century B.C. onwards, repeatedly warned the people against giving "heed to their dreams which they dream" (Jer.,xxix,8). "Dreams follow many cares", says Ecclesiastes (v,2); and Ben Sirach wisely adds that "dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them" (Ecclus.,xxxiv,7). This was, according to II Par., xxxiii,6, one of the faults which brought about the downfall of Manasses. Above all, the Israelites were warned in every manner against trusting in the pretended dreams of false prophets: "Behold, I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord" (Jer.,xxiii,32;cf. Zach.,x,2;etc). From these and other indications it appears that the religion of Israel was kept pure from superstition connected with dreams. True, a mere glance at the respective dates of the above-quoted passages suggest that the zeal of the prophets was of little avail, at least for certain classes of people. The evil opposed by them continued in vogue down to the Exile, and even after the Restoration; but it is scarcely necessary to remark how unjust it would be to hold the Jewish religion responsible for the abuses of individual persons. Neither did there exist at any time in Israel a class of diviners making it their business to interpret the dreams of their country-men; there were no potherim among the temple-officials, nor later around the synagogues. The very few dream-interpreters spoken of in the Bible, as Joseph and Daniel, were especially commissioned by God in exceptional circu mstances. Nor did they resort to natural skills or art; their interpretations were suggested to them by the Divine intellect enlightening their minds; "interpretation belongs to God", as Joseph declared to his fellow-prisoners. Undoubtedly there were among the people some soothsayers ever ready to profit by the curiosity of weaker and credulous minds; but as they possessed no authority and as they were condemned both by God and by the higher religious consciousness of the community, they practised their art in secret.
That certain dreams may be caused by God seemed to be acknowledged without controversy by the early Fathers of the Church and the ecclesiastical writers. This opinion they based mainly on Biblical authority; occasionally they appearled to the authority of classical writers. Agreeably to this doctrine, it was admitted likewise that the interpretation of supernatural dreams belongs to God who sends them, and who must manifest it either to the dreamer or to an authorized interpreter. The divine intervention in man's dreams is an exceptional occurrence; dreaming, on the contrary, is a most common fact. We may inquire, therefore, how the official guardians of Faith viewed ordinary and natural dreams. In general they repeated to the Christians the prohibitions and warnings of the Old Testament, and denounced in particular the superstitious tendency to consider dreams as omens. It may suffice in this connection to recall the names of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Gregory the Great, whose teaching on the question at issue is clear and emphatic. A few, however, held opinions somewhat at variance with the traditional view. Among them the most noteworthy is Synesius of Cyrene (about 370-413), who is the author of a very strange treatise on dreams. Starting from the Platonic anthropological trichotomy, and from certain psychological hypotheses of Plato and Plotinus, he attributed the imagination a manifestly exaggerated role. Above all the arts of divination, the lawful use of which he did not seem to doubt, he extolled dreaming as the simplest and surest mode of prophesying. We know that he had accepted the episcopacy only on the condition that he might continue to hold certain favourite philosophic ideas; and it is reasonable to suppose that his theories on dreams were included in the compact.
Medieval theologians added to the reasonings of their predecessors a more careful, and to some extent more scientific, study of the phenomena of sleep; but they found no reason to depart from the moral principles contained in the writings of the Fathers. Suffice it here to quote St. Thomas Aquinas, who summarizes the best teaching of the Schoolmen. To the query: Is divination through dreams unlawful? -- he replies: The whole question consists in determining the cause of dreams, and examining whether the same may be the cause of future events, or at least come to the actual knowledge of them. Dreams come sometimes from internal, and sometimes from external, causes. Two kinds of internal causes influence our dreams: one animal, inasmuch as such images remain in a sleeping man's fantasy as were dwelt upon by him while awake; the other found in the body: it is indeed a well-known fact that the actual disposition of the body causes a reaction on the fantasy. Now it is self-evidence that neither of these causes has any influence on individual future events. Our dreams may likewise be the effects of a twofold external cause. This is corporeal when exterior agencies, such as the atmospheric conditions or others, act on the imagination of the sleeper. Finally dreams may be caused by spiritual agents, such as God, directly, or indirectly through his angels, and the devil. It is easy to conclude thence what chances there are to know the future from dreams, and when divination will be lawful or unlawful (II-II:95:6).
Modern theologians, whilst profiting by the progress of psychological research, continue to admit the possibility of dreams supernatural in their origin, and consequently the possibility of dream-interpretation depending on supernatural communications. As to ordinary dreams, they readily grant that, because the imaginative faculties of man acquire sometimes a keenness which they do not possess otherwise, it is possible in such cases to conjecture with a certain degree of probability some future events; but in all other cases, by far the most common, it is useless and illogical to attempt any interpretation. As a matter of fact dreams are now -- we speak of civilized peoples -- seldom heeded; only very ignorant and superstitious persons ponder over the "dictionaries of dreams" and the "keys to the interpretation of dreams" once so much in favour. "As idle as a dream" has become a proverb expressive of the popular mind on the subject, and indicating sufficiently that there is little need nowadays to revive the laws and canons enacted in past ages against divination through dreams.
BOUCHE-LECLERCQ, Histoire de la Divination (Paris, 1879); LENORMANT, la divination et la science des presages chez les Chaldeens (Paris, 1875); LEHMANN, Aberglaube und Zauberei (Stuttgart, 1898); SCHANZ in Kirhenlex.,s.v. Traumdeuterei; LADD, Doctrine of Sacred Scripture (New York, 1883); REYNOLDS, Natural History of Immortality (1891).
CHARLES L. SOUVAY
Islamic Dream Interpretation: Meaning of Dreams in Islam
Islamic Dream Dictionary: Meaning of Dreams in Islam
Islamic dream dictionary with dream interpretation related to Islam and the Prophet: Includes the meaning of dreams about: Call to prayer, Bathing, Birds, Blowing, Clothing, Cover, Cows: Fat cows, Lean Cows, Fresh Dates, Ripe Dates, Door or Gate, Opening a Door, Egg, Elevation, Flowing Spring, Furnishing, Garden, Receiving a Gift, Gold, Hajj, Hand-hold, Keys, Laughing, Leg irons, Makkah, Marriage, Milk, Mountains, Pearls, Reconciliation, Right Side, Room, Rope, Ruler, Sexual Intercourse , Ship, Shirt, Silk Cloth, Sword.
See also: Meaning of Dreams
"True dreams are from Allah and bad dreams are from satan" [Sahih of Bukhari, Vol 9 p 95, no 113]
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Most books on dream interpretation are either attributed to Muhammad ibn Seereen (653-729 CE): english publication of Muhammad Al Akili's 508 page work entitled 'Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams: According to Islamic Innertraditions' in 1992, followed shortly thereafter by 'Dreams and Interpretations' by Ibn Seereen.
However, Ibn Seereen, without a shaddow of a doubt, did not write any book on dream interpretation. He did, however, write a compilation of Abu Huraira's narrations from the Prophet (pbuh) along with the opinions of Abu Huraira. This text was kept by his brother, Yahyaa ibn Seereen, because Muhammed ibn Seereen, in his later days, did not like to keep books. [Tareekh, vol 2 p 14b by Yaqoob al Fasawee and quoted in Studies in Early hadith literature p 38]
NOTE: In the below narrations there was mention of the Prophets, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all; mentioning of the companions (male and female), may Allah be pleased with them; and of course mentioning of dreams. We should be careful to realise that in many of the explanations above the reference is to 'may', that is, seeing such a thing in a dream 'MAY' indicate that 'such and such' was seen. Thus as none of us have the fortune of being a Prophet, nor do we have the fortune of being in the company of Prophet Joseph - who excelled in dream interpretation - we should consider the matters above with caution.
General Dreams
Call to prayer
ATHAAN (call to prayer): Seeing oneself giving the call to prayer may indicate one's plans for Hajj will succeed. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 224]
Based on: "Proclaim the Hajj to mankind" [Surah al Hajj (22): 27]
Bathing
BATHING: Dreaming of oneself bathing in cool water may refer to Allah's acceptance of one's repentance, a cure from sickness and/or the lifting of a calamity. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on: Verses referring to Prophet Job (Ayoob) "This is a cool water to bathe in and a refreshing drink. And I returned his family to him, and along with them a similar number of additional offspring" [Surah Saad (38): 42-43]
Birds
BIRDS: Seeing birds flying or circling over one's head in a dream may indicate the attainment of an administrative post. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 221]
Based on: Verses referring to Prophet David (Daoud) "The birds assembled, and all (with David) turned to (Allah in praise and repentance) and I strengthened his dominion" [Surah Saad (38_: 19-20]
Blowing
BLOWING: Blowing away something or someone disliked in a dream indicates that the problem will soon be eliminated. [Sahih of Muslim, Sharh an Nawawee vol 8 p 39]
Based on: Abu Huraira (ra) quoted Prophet Muhammad saying "While sleeping, I saw two gold bangles on my hands. This disturbed me, but I was inspired to blow on them, so I blew on them and they flew away. I interpreted the two bangles as the two great liars who would appear after me, and one of them is al Ansee from Sanaa, and the other, Musaylimah, from Yamaamah" [Sahih of Muslim, vol 4 pp 1228-9 no 5650]
Clothing, Cover
CLOTHING/COVER: Seeing clothing or a cover in a dream may refer to a husband or wife according to the metaphor 'libaas' (meaning: clothing/cover). [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "They (wives) are a cover for you and you are a cover for them" [Surah al Baqara (2): 187]
Cows: Fat cows, Lean Cows
COWS: Fat cows indicate a good yield of harvest while lean cows indicate a poor yield.
Based on: Prophet Joseph's (Yusuf's) dream "O Joseph!" (he said) "O man of truth! expound to us (the dream) of seven fat kind whom seven lean ones devour and of seven green ears of corn and (seven) others withered: that I may return to the people and that they may understand." (Joseph) said: "For seven years shall ye diligently sow as is your wont: and the harvests that ye reap ye shall leave them in the ear except a little of which ye shall eat. "Then will come after that (period) seven dreadful (years) which will devour what ye shall have laid by in advance for them (all) except a little which ye shall have (specially) guarded. "Then will come after that (period) a year in which the people will have abundant water and in which they will press (wine and oil)." [Surah Yusuf (12): 46-49]
Fresh Dates
DATES: If one sees fresh Ibn Taab dates in a dream, it indicates that one's practise of the religion will become better.
Based on: Anas ibn Malik (ra) quoted Prophet Muhammad saying "Last night I dreamt that we were in the house of Uqbah ibn Raafi and were brought some Ibn Taab fresh dates. I interpreted it as meaning that eminence in this world will be granted to us, a blessed hereafter, and that our religion has become good" [Sahih of Muslim, vol 4 p 1228 no 5647; Sunan of Abu Dawood, vol 3 p 1397 no 5007]
NB The Prophet derived the concept of a blessed hereafter (aaqibah) from the name Uqbah, he derived the eminence (rifah) from the name Raafi, and he derived becoming good i.e. complete (taaba) from the name Taab.
Ripe Dates
Dreaming of oneself eating ripe dates, acquiring them, etc. may signify Allah's granting of provision, or a reminder to pay charity, or a reminder to avoid extravagance.
Based on: "It is He who produces gardens with trellises and without and dates and tilth with produce of all kinds and olives and pomegranates similar (in kind) and different (in variety): eat of their fruit in their season but render the dues that are proper on the day that the harvest is gathered. But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters" [Surah al Anaam (6): 141]
Door or Gate
DOOR: Seeing oneself enter a door or a gate in a dream, may refer to the successful completion of a project, or the winning of an argument. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 221]
Based on: Enter upon them though the gate. For when you enter victory will be yours" [Surah al Maidah (5): 23]
Opening a Door
Opening a door in a dream may refer to the acceptance of a supplication or the need to make one, according to the derivation of the word 'istiftaah', [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on: "If you ask for a judgement, the judgement has come" (In tastaftihu faqad ja akumul fathu) [Surah al Anfaal (8): 19]
Egg
EGG: Seeing an egg in a dream may refer to a woman, according to the metaphor used in Quran referring to the maidens of paradise. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on: "And they will have with them chaste females with lowered, large, beautiful eyes; delicate and pure, like well preserved hidden eggs" [Surah as Saaffaat (37): 48-9]
Elevation
ELEVATION: Seeing onself in a dream either elevated, ascending or in the sky may refer to an elevation in status or rank (rifah). [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on Prophet Idrees, where the word 'rafanaa' is used "And I raised him to a high station" (Wa rafanahu makanan aliy ya) [Surah Maryam (19): 57]
Flowing Spring
FLOWING SPRINGS: A flowing spring in a dream indicates continued reward for one's good deeds.
Based on: Kharijah ibn Zaid ibn Thabit (ra) narrated that, Um Al-'Ala an Ansari woman who had given the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle said, (Uthman bin Maz'un came in our share when the Ansars drew lots to distribute the emigrants (to dwell) among themselves. He became sick and we looked after (nursed) him till he died. Then we shrouded him in his clothes. Allah's Apostle came to us. I (addressing the dead body) said, 'May Allah's Mercy be on you, O Aba As-Sa'ib! I testify that Allah has honored you.' The Prophet said, 'How do you know that?' I replied, 'I do not know, by Allah.' He said, 'As for him, death has come to him and I wish him all good from Allah. By Allah, though I am Allah's Apostle, I neither know what will happen to me, nor to you.( Um Al-'Ala said, "By Allah, I will never attest the righteousness of anybody after that." She added, "Later I saw in a dream, a flowing spring for 'Uthman. So I went to Allah's Apostle and mentioned that to him. He said, 'That is (the symbol of) his good deeds (the reward for) which is going on for him.' [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 pp119-20 no 145]
Furnishing
FURNISHING: Seeing furniture and rugs in a dream may indicate the coming of a time of rest or a break from a period of difficulty or it may imply the attainment of an administrative office which was sought. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Reclining on couches lined with brocade and the fruits from the two gardens will be nearby" [Surah ar Rahman (55): 54]
Furnishing in a dream may also symbolise women and children.
Based on: "They will be on elevated couches. And I have specifically created them virgins who will love husbands of equal age" [Surah al Waaqiah (56): 34-37]
Garden
GARDEN: Seeing a garden in a dream indicates the richness of Islam.
Based on: Abdullah ibn Salaam said: (In a dream) I saw myself in a garden, and there was a pillar in the middle of the garden, and there was a handhold at the top of the pillar. I was asked to climb it. I said, "I cannot." Then a servant came and lifted up my clothes and I climbed (the pillar), and then got hold of the handhold, and I woke up while still holding it. I narrated that to the Prophet who said, "The garden symbolizes the garden of Islam, and the handhold is the firm Islamic handhold which indicates that you will be adhering firmly to Islam until you die." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 117 no 142]
Receiving a Gift
GIFT: Recieving a gift in a dream may indicate a blessing of happiness. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Indeed you are happy with your gift" [Surah an Naml (27): 36]
Gold
GOLD: Being given gold or finding gold may indicate finding a suitable wife or a successful marriage. The symbolism is derived when the Prophet restricted ornaments of gold to women.
Based on: Abdullab ibn Zurrayr related that he heard Ali ibn Abi Talib say that the Prophet took some silk in his right hand and some gold in his left hand. Then he said, "These two are forbidden to the males of my nation" [Sunan of Abu Dawood, vol 3 p 1133 no 4046; an Nasaee and Ahmad]
Hajj
HAJJ: Hearing oneself congratulated on doing Hajj or Umrah indicates that it went well.
Based on: Abu Jamra Nasr bin 'Imran Ad-Duba'i said, "I intended to perform Hajj-at-Tamattu' and the people advised me not to do so. I asked Ibn Abbas regarding it and he ordered me to perform Hajj-at-Tammatu'. Later I saw in a dream someone saying to me, 'Hajj-Mabrur (Hajj performed in accordance with the Prophet's tradition without committing sins and accepted by Allah) and an accepted 'Umra.' So I told that dream to Ibn Abbas. He said, 'This is the tradition of Abul-Qasim.' Then he said to me, 'Stay with me and I shall give you a portion of my property.' " I (Shu'ba) asked, "Why (did he invite you)?" He (Abu Jamra) said, "Because of the dream which I had seen." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 2 p 373 no 638]
Hajj-at-Tammatu: this is Umrah combined with Hajj in which the pilgrim is allowed to leave his state of consecration (ihraam) after the completion of the Umrah
Hajj-Mabrur: which means 'may your Hajj be righteous'
Abdul-Qasim: this was Prophet Muhammad's nickname, derived from the name of his son, al Qaasim
Hand-hold
HAND-HOLD: Grasping a hand-hold in a dream indicates that one will continue to hold firmly to Islam.
Based on: Abdullah bin Salaam said: (In a dream) I saw myself in a garden, and there was a pillar in the middle of the garden, and there was a handhold at the top of the pillar. I was asked to climb it. I said, "I cannot." Then a servant came and lifted up my clothes and I climbed (the pillar), and then got hold of the handhold, and I woke up while still holding it. I narrated that to the Prophet who said, "The garden symbolizes the garden of Islam, and the handhold is the firm Islamic handhold which indicates that you will be adhering firmly to Islam until you die." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 117 no 142]
Keys
KEYS: Seeing keys in one�s hand, or receiving keys in a dream, indicates the receipt of administrative authority. [Saheeh Muslim: Sharh an Nawawee, vol 8 p 39]
Based on: Abu Huraira said: The Prophet said, "I have been given the keys of eloquent speech and given victory with awe (cast into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping last night, the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me till they were put in my hand." Abu Huraira added: Allah's Apostle left (this world) and now you people are carrying those treasures from place to place. [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 106 no 127; Sahih of Muslim, vol 1 p 266 no 1063]
Laughing
LAUGHING: Dreaming of oneself laughing in a dream may refer to the arrival of good news, good times. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Some faces on that day will be bright, laughing and rejoicing at the good news" [Surah Abasa (8): 38-9]
Leg irons
LEG IRONS: Seeing oneself bound in leg-irons indicates stability in the religion.
Based on: Muhammad ibn Seereen said: "Abu Huraira hated to see neck irons (metallic neck collars) in a dream, and people generally liked to see leg-irons. Leg-irons were said to symbolise one's constant and form adherence to religion" [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 118-9 no 144]
Imam an Nawawee noted that the reason shakles (qayd) on the feet were liked was because they indicate avoiding sin and evil (i.e. the feet are prevented from taking the body to corruption). On the other hand, shackles (ghull) on theneck is one of the characteristics of those in Hell (Quran 13:5, 34:33, 36:8 and 40:71). [Sharh an Nawawee, vol 8 p 28]
Makkah
MAKKAH: Seeing oneself entering Makkah in a dream may refer to a state of security and peace. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Whoever enters Makkah will be secure" [Surah al Imran (3): 97]
Marriage
MARRIAGE: Dreaming of oneself getting married may indicate an impeding marriage. If there are no marriage plans at the time of the dream, one may propose to the women shown in the dream.
Based on: Aisha said: Allah's Apostle said to me, "You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.'Later I dreamt of the angel carrying someone in a silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' " [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 115-6 no 140]
Milk
MILK: Receiving milk in a dream means that religious knowledge has been granted.
Based on: Abdullah ibn Umar said: Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of milk (in the dream) and I drank from it (to my fill) till I noticed its wetness coming out of my limbs. Then I gave the rest of it to 'Umar bin Al-Khattab." The persons sitting around him, asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream) O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "It is (religious) knowledge." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 112 no 135]
Mountains
MOUNTAINS: Seeing mountains in a dream means that you are going to Canada. LOL � just joking to see if anyone has made it this far.
Seeing mountains in a dream may indicate the attainment of an administrative post.
Based on: Verses to Prophet David "Indeed, I made the mountains glorify our praises along with David in the evening andin the morning...and I strengthened his dominion" [Surah Saad (38): 18 & 20]
Pearls
PEARLS: Dreaming of pearls may indicate Allah's granting of a mater, male or female, which refer to the young men and women of paradise granted to the believers.
Based on: "And their will be large eyed maidens like hidden pearls" [Surah al Waqiah (56): 22-3]
"And there will be young men of perpetual youth serving them; if you saw the youths, you would think that they were scattered pearls" [Surah al Insaan (76): 19]
Reconciliation
RECONCILIATION: Seeing a reconciliation in a dream may refer to a good settlement of one's affairs. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "There is nothing wrong in making peace between themselves, for reconciliation is better" [Surah an Nisa (4): 128]
Right Side
RIGHT SIDE: If one dreams of being led to the right side of a location, it indicates achieving a state of security or an escape from harm.
Based on: Ibn Umar said: Men from the companions of Allah's Apostle used to see dreams during the lifetime of Allah's Apostle and they used to narrate those dreams to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle would interpret them as Allah wished. I was a young man and used to stay in the mosque before my wedlock. I said to myself, "If there were any good in myself, I too would see what these people see." So when I went to bed one night, I said, "O Allah! If you see any good in me, show me a good dream." So while I was in that state, there came to me (in a dream) two angels. In the hand of each of them, there was a mace of iron, and both of them were taking me to Hell, and I was between them, invoking Allah, "O Allah! I seek refuge with You from Hell." Then I saw myself being confronted by another angel holding a mace of iron in his hand. He said to me, "Do not be afraid, you will be an excellent man if you only pray more often." So they took me till they stopped me at the edge of Hell, and behold, it was built inside like a well and it had side posts like those of a well, and beside each post there was an angel carrying an iron mace. I saw therein many people hanging upside down with iron chains, and I recognized therein some men from the Quraish. Then (the angels) took me to the right side. I narrated this dream to (my sister) Hafsa and she told it to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle said, "No doubt, 'Abdullah is a good man." (Nafi' said, "Since then 'Abdullah bin 'Umar used to pray much.)" [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 127-8 no 155]
Hafsah was his sister and she was also one of the Prophet's wives
Nafi was the freed slave of Ibn Umar, who became his student and one of the most outstanding scholars of his time
Room
ROOM: Dreaming of oneself in a room or in different rooms, may refer to being safefrom what one fears.
Based on: "They will reside in rooms in peace and security" [Surah Saba (34): 37]
Rope
ROPE: Seeing a rope in a dream and grabbing hold of it, may indicate one's adherance to the covenant with God and Islam. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 220]
Based on: "Hold on firmly to the rope of Allah and do not become divided" [Surah al Imran (3): 103]
Ruler
RULER: Being addressed by a ruler in a dream may refer to the attainment of a high post or rank. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
"When he (the ruler) spoke to him, he said, 'Indeed, today you are considered an established, trustworthy person'" [Surah Yusuf (12): 54]
Sexual Intercourse
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE: Dreams of sexual intercourse are fundamentally satanic and therefore not interpretable. However, they may only be classified as good dreams if the people involved are married.
If a person has an orgasm while dreaming, taking a complete ritual bath (ghusl) is obligatory on that individual to attain the state of purity (taharaah) necessary to make formal prayers.
Anas ibn Malik reported that Umm Sulaym came to the Prophet while he was with Aisha and asked him, "O Messenger of Allah, when a woman sees and experiences in a dream what a ma does, what should she do?". Aisha remarked, "O Umm Sulaym, you have humiliated women, May your right hand be covered in dust". The Prophet said to Aisha, "May your right hand be covered in dust". He then said to Umm Sulaym, "O Umm Sulaym, she should take ghusl if she sees any discharge" [Sahih of Muslim, vol 1 p 178 no 607]
Right hand be covered in dust: this is an Arabic statement of disapproval
Ship
SHIP: Seeing a ship in a dream may mean success or escape. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 220]
Based on: Prophet Noah "Then I saved him and those with him in the shop, and made it a lesson for all of the worlds" [Surah al Ankaboot (29): 15]
Shirt
SHIRT: Wearing a shirt in a dream indicates adherences to the religion. The longer the shirt, the greater commitment to Islam.
Abu Said ul Khudri said: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I saw (in a dream) the people being displayed before me, wearing shirts, some of which (were so short that it) reached as far as their breasts and some reached below that. Then 'Umar bin Al-Khattab was shown to me and he was wearing a shirt which he was dragging (behind him)." They asked. What have you interpreted (about the dream), O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "The religion." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 113-4 no 137]
Silk Cloth
SILK CLOTH: Receiving or giving silk cloth in a dream may indicate impending marriage. Since silk garments are restricted to women, dreaming about silk may be symbolic of a woman.
Based on: Aisha said "Allah's Apostle said to me, "You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' Then you were shown to me, the angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' " [Sahih of Bukhari vol 9 p 115-6 no 140]
Dreaming of oneself flying in paradise holding a piece of silk cloth indicates righteousness in the individual.
Based on: Ibn Umar said: I saw in a dream a piece of silken cloth in my hand, and in whatever direction in Paradise I waved it, it flew, carrying me there. I narrated this (dream) to (my sister) Hafsa and she told it to the Prophet who said, (to Hafsa), "Indeed, your brother is a righteous man," or, "Indeed, 'Abdullah is a righteous man." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 118 no 143]
Sword
SWORD: Seeing a sword in a dream refers to one's companions and supporters coming to their aid. [Saheeh Muslim: Sharh an Nawawee, vol 8 p 38]
Based on: Abu Musa said: The Prophet said, "I saw in a dream that I waved a sword and it broke in the middle, and behold, that symbolized the casualties the believers suffered on the Day (of the battle) of Uhud. Then I waved the sword again, and it became better than it had ever been before, and behold, that symbolized the Conquest (of Mecca) which Allah brought about and the gathering of the believers." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 133-4 no 164]
Islamic dream dictionary with dream interpretation related to Islam and the Prophet: Includes the meaning of dreams about: Call to prayer, Bathing, Birds, Blowing, Clothing, Cover, Cows: Fat cows, Lean Cows, Fresh Dates, Ripe Dates, Door or Gate, Opening a Door, Egg, Elevation, Flowing Spring, Furnishing, Garden, Receiving a Gift, Gold, Hajj, Hand-hold, Keys, Laughing, Leg irons, Makkah, Marriage, Milk, Mountains, Pearls, Reconciliation, Right Side, Room, Rope, Ruler, Sexual Intercourse , Ship, Shirt, Silk Cloth, Sword.
See also: Meaning of Dreams
"True dreams are from Allah and bad dreams are from satan" [Sahih of Bukhari, Vol 9 p 95, no 113]
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Most books on dream interpretation are either attributed to Muhammad ibn Seereen (653-729 CE): english publication of Muhammad Al Akili's 508 page work entitled 'Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams: According to Islamic Innertraditions' in 1992, followed shortly thereafter by 'Dreams and Interpretations' by Ibn Seereen.
However, Ibn Seereen, without a shaddow of a doubt, did not write any book on dream interpretation. He did, however, write a compilation of Abu Huraira's narrations from the Prophet (pbuh) along with the opinions of Abu Huraira. This text was kept by his brother, Yahyaa ibn Seereen, because Muhammed ibn Seereen, in his later days, did not like to keep books. [Tareekh, vol 2 p 14b by Yaqoob al Fasawee and quoted in Studies in Early hadith literature p 38]
NOTE: In the below narrations there was mention of the Prophets, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all; mentioning of the companions (male and female), may Allah be pleased with them; and of course mentioning of dreams. We should be careful to realise that in many of the explanations above the reference is to 'may', that is, seeing such a thing in a dream 'MAY' indicate that 'such and such' was seen. Thus as none of us have the fortune of being a Prophet, nor do we have the fortune of being in the company of Prophet Joseph - who excelled in dream interpretation - we should consider the matters above with caution.
General Dreams
Call to prayer
ATHAAN (call to prayer): Seeing oneself giving the call to prayer may indicate one's plans for Hajj will succeed. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 224]
Based on: "Proclaim the Hajj to mankind" [Surah al Hajj (22): 27]
Bathing
BATHING: Dreaming of oneself bathing in cool water may refer to Allah's acceptance of one's repentance, a cure from sickness and/or the lifting of a calamity. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on: Verses referring to Prophet Job (Ayoob) "This is a cool water to bathe in and a refreshing drink. And I returned his family to him, and along with them a similar number of additional offspring" [Surah Saad (38): 42-43]
Birds
BIRDS: Seeing birds flying or circling over one's head in a dream may indicate the attainment of an administrative post. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 221]
Based on: Verses referring to Prophet David (Daoud) "The birds assembled, and all (with David) turned to (Allah in praise and repentance) and I strengthened his dominion" [Surah Saad (38_: 19-20]
Blowing
BLOWING: Blowing away something or someone disliked in a dream indicates that the problem will soon be eliminated. [Sahih of Muslim, Sharh an Nawawee vol 8 p 39]
Based on: Abu Huraira (ra) quoted Prophet Muhammad saying "While sleeping, I saw two gold bangles on my hands. This disturbed me, but I was inspired to blow on them, so I blew on them and they flew away. I interpreted the two bangles as the two great liars who would appear after me, and one of them is al Ansee from Sanaa, and the other, Musaylimah, from Yamaamah" [Sahih of Muslim, vol 4 pp 1228-9 no 5650]
Clothing, Cover
CLOTHING/COVER: Seeing clothing or a cover in a dream may refer to a husband or wife according to the metaphor 'libaas' (meaning: clothing/cover). [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "They (wives) are a cover for you and you are a cover for them" [Surah al Baqara (2): 187]
Cows: Fat cows, Lean Cows
COWS: Fat cows indicate a good yield of harvest while lean cows indicate a poor yield.
Based on: Prophet Joseph's (Yusuf's) dream "O Joseph!" (he said) "O man of truth! expound to us (the dream) of seven fat kind whom seven lean ones devour and of seven green ears of corn and (seven) others withered: that I may return to the people and that they may understand." (Joseph) said: "For seven years shall ye diligently sow as is your wont: and the harvests that ye reap ye shall leave them in the ear except a little of which ye shall eat. "Then will come after that (period) seven dreadful (years) which will devour what ye shall have laid by in advance for them (all) except a little which ye shall have (specially) guarded. "Then will come after that (period) a year in which the people will have abundant water and in which they will press (wine and oil)." [Surah Yusuf (12): 46-49]
Fresh Dates
DATES: If one sees fresh Ibn Taab dates in a dream, it indicates that one's practise of the religion will become better.
Based on: Anas ibn Malik (ra) quoted Prophet Muhammad saying "Last night I dreamt that we were in the house of Uqbah ibn Raafi and were brought some Ibn Taab fresh dates. I interpreted it as meaning that eminence in this world will be granted to us, a blessed hereafter, and that our religion has become good" [Sahih of Muslim, vol 4 p 1228 no 5647; Sunan of Abu Dawood, vol 3 p 1397 no 5007]
NB The Prophet derived the concept of a blessed hereafter (aaqibah) from the name Uqbah, he derived the eminence (rifah) from the name Raafi, and he derived becoming good i.e. complete (taaba) from the name Taab.
Ripe Dates
Dreaming of oneself eating ripe dates, acquiring them, etc. may signify Allah's granting of provision, or a reminder to pay charity, or a reminder to avoid extravagance.
Based on: "It is He who produces gardens with trellises and without and dates and tilth with produce of all kinds and olives and pomegranates similar (in kind) and different (in variety): eat of their fruit in their season but render the dues that are proper on the day that the harvest is gathered. But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters" [Surah al Anaam (6): 141]
Door or Gate
DOOR: Seeing oneself enter a door or a gate in a dream, may refer to the successful completion of a project, or the winning of an argument. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 221]
Based on: Enter upon them though the gate. For when you enter victory will be yours" [Surah al Maidah (5): 23]
Opening a Door
Opening a door in a dream may refer to the acceptance of a supplication or the need to make one, according to the derivation of the word 'istiftaah', [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on: "If you ask for a judgement, the judgement has come" (In tastaftihu faqad ja akumul fathu) [Surah al Anfaal (8): 19]
Egg
EGG: Seeing an egg in a dream may refer to a woman, according to the metaphor used in Quran referring to the maidens of paradise. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on: "And they will have with them chaste females with lowered, large, beautiful eyes; delicate and pure, like well preserved hidden eggs" [Surah as Saaffaat (37): 48-9]
Elevation
ELEVATION: Seeing onself in a dream either elevated, ascending or in the sky may refer to an elevation in status or rank (rifah). [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
Based on Prophet Idrees, where the word 'rafanaa' is used "And I raised him to a high station" (Wa rafanahu makanan aliy ya) [Surah Maryam (19): 57]
Flowing Spring
FLOWING SPRINGS: A flowing spring in a dream indicates continued reward for one's good deeds.
Based on: Kharijah ibn Zaid ibn Thabit (ra) narrated that, Um Al-'Ala an Ansari woman who had given the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle said, (Uthman bin Maz'un came in our share when the Ansars drew lots to distribute the emigrants (to dwell) among themselves. He became sick and we looked after (nursed) him till he died. Then we shrouded him in his clothes. Allah's Apostle came to us. I (addressing the dead body) said, 'May Allah's Mercy be on you, O Aba As-Sa'ib! I testify that Allah has honored you.' The Prophet said, 'How do you know that?' I replied, 'I do not know, by Allah.' He said, 'As for him, death has come to him and I wish him all good from Allah. By Allah, though I am Allah's Apostle, I neither know what will happen to me, nor to you.( Um Al-'Ala said, "By Allah, I will never attest the righteousness of anybody after that." She added, "Later I saw in a dream, a flowing spring for 'Uthman. So I went to Allah's Apostle and mentioned that to him. He said, 'That is (the symbol of) his good deeds (the reward for) which is going on for him.' [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 pp119-20 no 145]
Furnishing
FURNISHING: Seeing furniture and rugs in a dream may indicate the coming of a time of rest or a break from a period of difficulty or it may imply the attainment of an administrative office which was sought. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Reclining on couches lined with brocade and the fruits from the two gardens will be nearby" [Surah ar Rahman (55): 54]
Furnishing in a dream may also symbolise women and children.
Based on: "They will be on elevated couches. And I have specifically created them virgins who will love husbands of equal age" [Surah al Waaqiah (56): 34-37]
Garden
GARDEN: Seeing a garden in a dream indicates the richness of Islam.
Based on: Abdullah ibn Salaam said: (In a dream) I saw myself in a garden, and there was a pillar in the middle of the garden, and there was a handhold at the top of the pillar. I was asked to climb it. I said, "I cannot." Then a servant came and lifted up my clothes and I climbed (the pillar), and then got hold of the handhold, and I woke up while still holding it. I narrated that to the Prophet who said, "The garden symbolizes the garden of Islam, and the handhold is the firm Islamic handhold which indicates that you will be adhering firmly to Islam until you die." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 117 no 142]
Receiving a Gift
GIFT: Recieving a gift in a dream may indicate a blessing of happiness. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Indeed you are happy with your gift" [Surah an Naml (27): 36]
Gold
GOLD: Being given gold or finding gold may indicate finding a suitable wife or a successful marriage. The symbolism is derived when the Prophet restricted ornaments of gold to women.
Based on: Abdullab ibn Zurrayr related that he heard Ali ibn Abi Talib say that the Prophet took some silk in his right hand and some gold in his left hand. Then he said, "These two are forbidden to the males of my nation" [Sunan of Abu Dawood, vol 3 p 1133 no 4046; an Nasaee and Ahmad]
Hajj
HAJJ: Hearing oneself congratulated on doing Hajj or Umrah indicates that it went well.
Based on: Abu Jamra Nasr bin 'Imran Ad-Duba'i said, "I intended to perform Hajj-at-Tamattu' and the people advised me not to do so. I asked Ibn Abbas regarding it and he ordered me to perform Hajj-at-Tammatu'. Later I saw in a dream someone saying to me, 'Hajj-Mabrur (Hajj performed in accordance with the Prophet's tradition without committing sins and accepted by Allah) and an accepted 'Umra.' So I told that dream to Ibn Abbas. He said, 'This is the tradition of Abul-Qasim.' Then he said to me, 'Stay with me and I shall give you a portion of my property.' " I (Shu'ba) asked, "Why (did he invite you)?" He (Abu Jamra) said, "Because of the dream which I had seen." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 2 p 373 no 638]
Hajj-at-Tammatu: this is Umrah combined with Hajj in which the pilgrim is allowed to leave his state of consecration (ihraam) after the completion of the Umrah
Hajj-Mabrur: which means 'may your Hajj be righteous'
Abdul-Qasim: this was Prophet Muhammad's nickname, derived from the name of his son, al Qaasim
Hand-hold
HAND-HOLD: Grasping a hand-hold in a dream indicates that one will continue to hold firmly to Islam.
Based on: Abdullah bin Salaam said: (In a dream) I saw myself in a garden, and there was a pillar in the middle of the garden, and there was a handhold at the top of the pillar. I was asked to climb it. I said, "I cannot." Then a servant came and lifted up my clothes and I climbed (the pillar), and then got hold of the handhold, and I woke up while still holding it. I narrated that to the Prophet who said, "The garden symbolizes the garden of Islam, and the handhold is the firm Islamic handhold which indicates that you will be adhering firmly to Islam until you die." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 117 no 142]
Keys
KEYS: Seeing keys in one�s hand, or receiving keys in a dream, indicates the receipt of administrative authority. [Saheeh Muslim: Sharh an Nawawee, vol 8 p 39]
Based on: Abu Huraira said: The Prophet said, "I have been given the keys of eloquent speech and given victory with awe (cast into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping last night, the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me till they were put in my hand." Abu Huraira added: Allah's Apostle left (this world) and now you people are carrying those treasures from place to place. [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 106 no 127; Sahih of Muslim, vol 1 p 266 no 1063]
Laughing
LAUGHING: Dreaming of oneself laughing in a dream may refer to the arrival of good news, good times. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Some faces on that day will be bright, laughing and rejoicing at the good news" [Surah Abasa (8): 38-9]
Leg irons
LEG IRONS: Seeing oneself bound in leg-irons indicates stability in the religion.
Based on: Muhammad ibn Seereen said: "Abu Huraira hated to see neck irons (metallic neck collars) in a dream, and people generally liked to see leg-irons. Leg-irons were said to symbolise one's constant and form adherence to religion" [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 118-9 no 144]
Imam an Nawawee noted that the reason shakles (qayd) on the feet were liked was because they indicate avoiding sin and evil (i.e. the feet are prevented from taking the body to corruption). On the other hand, shackles (ghull) on theneck is one of the characteristics of those in Hell (Quran 13:5, 34:33, 36:8 and 40:71). [Sharh an Nawawee, vol 8 p 28]
Makkah
MAKKAH: Seeing oneself entering Makkah in a dream may refer to a state of security and peace. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "Whoever enters Makkah will be secure" [Surah al Imran (3): 97]
Marriage
MARRIAGE: Dreaming of oneself getting married may indicate an impeding marriage. If there are no marriage plans at the time of the dream, one may propose to the women shown in the dream.
Based on: Aisha said: Allah's Apostle said to me, "You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.'Later I dreamt of the angel carrying someone in a silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' " [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 115-6 no 140]
Milk
MILK: Receiving milk in a dream means that religious knowledge has been granted.
Based on: Abdullah ibn Umar said: Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of milk (in the dream) and I drank from it (to my fill) till I noticed its wetness coming out of my limbs. Then I gave the rest of it to 'Umar bin Al-Khattab." The persons sitting around him, asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream) O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "It is (religious) knowledge." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 112 no 135]
Mountains
MOUNTAINS: Seeing mountains in a dream means that you are going to Canada. LOL � just joking to see if anyone has made it this far.
Seeing mountains in a dream may indicate the attainment of an administrative post.
Based on: Verses to Prophet David "Indeed, I made the mountains glorify our praises along with David in the evening andin the morning...and I strengthened his dominion" [Surah Saad (38): 18 & 20]
Pearls
PEARLS: Dreaming of pearls may indicate Allah's granting of a mater, male or female, which refer to the young men and women of paradise granted to the believers.
Based on: "And their will be large eyed maidens like hidden pearls" [Surah al Waqiah (56): 22-3]
"And there will be young men of perpetual youth serving them; if you saw the youths, you would think that they were scattered pearls" [Surah al Insaan (76): 19]
Reconciliation
RECONCILIATION: Seeing a reconciliation in a dream may refer to a good settlement of one's affairs. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 221]
Based on: "There is nothing wrong in making peace between themselves, for reconciliation is better" [Surah an Nisa (4): 128]
Right Side
RIGHT SIDE: If one dreams of being led to the right side of a location, it indicates achieving a state of security or an escape from harm.
Based on: Ibn Umar said: Men from the companions of Allah's Apostle used to see dreams during the lifetime of Allah's Apostle and they used to narrate those dreams to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle would interpret them as Allah wished. I was a young man and used to stay in the mosque before my wedlock. I said to myself, "If there were any good in myself, I too would see what these people see." So when I went to bed one night, I said, "O Allah! If you see any good in me, show me a good dream." So while I was in that state, there came to me (in a dream) two angels. In the hand of each of them, there was a mace of iron, and both of them were taking me to Hell, and I was between them, invoking Allah, "O Allah! I seek refuge with You from Hell." Then I saw myself being confronted by another angel holding a mace of iron in his hand. He said to me, "Do not be afraid, you will be an excellent man if you only pray more often." So they took me till they stopped me at the edge of Hell, and behold, it was built inside like a well and it had side posts like those of a well, and beside each post there was an angel carrying an iron mace. I saw therein many people hanging upside down with iron chains, and I recognized therein some men from the Quraish. Then (the angels) took me to the right side. I narrated this dream to (my sister) Hafsa and she told it to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle said, "No doubt, 'Abdullah is a good man." (Nafi' said, "Since then 'Abdullah bin 'Umar used to pray much.)" [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 127-8 no 155]
Hafsah was his sister and she was also one of the Prophet's wives
Nafi was the freed slave of Ibn Umar, who became his student and one of the most outstanding scholars of his time
Room
ROOM: Dreaming of oneself in a room or in different rooms, may refer to being safefrom what one fears.
Based on: "They will reside in rooms in peace and security" [Surah Saba (34): 37]
Rope
ROPE: Seeing a rope in a dream and grabbing hold of it, may indicate one's adherance to the covenant with God and Islam. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 220]
Based on: "Hold on firmly to the rope of Allah and do not become divided" [Surah al Imran (3): 103]
Ruler
RULER: Being addressed by a ruler in a dream may refer to the attainment of a high post or rank. [Sharh as Sunnah vol 12 p 220]
"When he (the ruler) spoke to him, he said, 'Indeed, today you are considered an established, trustworthy person'" [Surah Yusuf (12): 54]
Sexual Intercourse
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE: Dreams of sexual intercourse are fundamentally satanic and therefore not interpretable. However, they may only be classified as good dreams if the people involved are married.
If a person has an orgasm while dreaming, taking a complete ritual bath (ghusl) is obligatory on that individual to attain the state of purity (taharaah) necessary to make formal prayers.
Anas ibn Malik reported that Umm Sulaym came to the Prophet while he was with Aisha and asked him, "O Messenger of Allah, when a woman sees and experiences in a dream what a ma does, what should she do?". Aisha remarked, "O Umm Sulaym, you have humiliated women, May your right hand be covered in dust". The Prophet said to Aisha, "May your right hand be covered in dust". He then said to Umm Sulaym, "O Umm Sulaym, she should take ghusl if she sees any discharge" [Sahih of Muslim, vol 1 p 178 no 607]
Right hand be covered in dust: this is an Arabic statement of disapproval
Ship
SHIP: Seeing a ship in a dream may mean success or escape. [Sharh as Sunnah, vol 12 p 220]
Based on: Prophet Noah "Then I saved him and those with him in the shop, and made it a lesson for all of the worlds" [Surah al Ankaboot (29): 15]
Shirt
SHIRT: Wearing a shirt in a dream indicates adherences to the religion. The longer the shirt, the greater commitment to Islam.
Abu Said ul Khudri said: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I saw (in a dream) the people being displayed before me, wearing shirts, some of which (were so short that it) reached as far as their breasts and some reached below that. Then 'Umar bin Al-Khattab was shown to me and he was wearing a shirt which he was dragging (behind him)." They asked. What have you interpreted (about the dream), O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "The religion." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 113-4 no 137]
Silk Cloth
SILK CLOTH: Receiving or giving silk cloth in a dream may indicate impending marriage. Since silk garments are restricted to women, dreaming about silk may be symbolic of a woman.
Based on: Aisha said "Allah's Apostle said to me, "You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' Then you were shown to me, the angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' " [Sahih of Bukhari vol 9 p 115-6 no 140]
Dreaming of oneself flying in paradise holding a piece of silk cloth indicates righteousness in the individual.
Based on: Ibn Umar said: I saw in a dream a piece of silken cloth in my hand, and in whatever direction in Paradise I waved it, it flew, carrying me there. I narrated this (dream) to (my sister) Hafsa and she told it to the Prophet who said, (to Hafsa), "Indeed, your brother is a righteous man," or, "Indeed, 'Abdullah is a righteous man." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 118 no 143]
Sword
SWORD: Seeing a sword in a dream refers to one's companions and supporters coming to their aid. [Saheeh Muslim: Sharh an Nawawee, vol 8 p 38]
Based on: Abu Musa said: The Prophet said, "I saw in a dream that I waved a sword and it broke in the middle, and behold, that symbolized the casualties the believers suffered on the Day (of the battle) of Uhud. Then I waved the sword again, and it became better than it had ever been before, and behold, that symbolized the Conquest (of Mecca) which Allah brought about and the gathering of the believers." [Sahih of Bukhari, vol 9 p 133-4 no 164]
Dream interpretation ..Seasons
Spring
To dream about spring is a sign of fortunate undertakings and cheerful companions.
Summer
Summer foretells joyous events and prosperity; denotes the maturity of ambitions and signals unbound satisfaction.
Autumn
Implies cycle of transformation and change of surroundings. Will experience many ups and downs.
Winter
In this case is a cycle of disintegration and rest. It foretells happiness and financial gains.
To dream about spring is a sign of fortunate undertakings and cheerful companions.
Summer
Summer foretells joyous events and prosperity; denotes the maturity of ambitions and signals unbound satisfaction.
Autumn
Implies cycle of transformation and change of surroundings. Will experience many ups and downs.
Winter
In this case is a cycle of disintegration and rest. It foretells happiness and financial gains.
Dream interpretation ..Body
Body Parts
Ankle
Support and direction. Difficulties followed by success later. A friend is trying to help you secretly.
Anus
Elimination. It portends quarrels, disappointments and disagreeable companions.
Arm
Strength. To dream of seeing an arm, means victory over enemies but family quarrels.
Back
Unconscious. Jealous people are against you and there is opposition in love.
Blood
Essence. Life energy. Unfortunate love affairs.
Severe disappointment.
Bones
Structure. Evidence. Support. Poverty and death.
Brain
Intellect. Mind and reason. Great knowledge will bring good result in affairs.
Breast
Female sexuality and maternal love. You will have true and loyal friendship and success in love.
Buttocks
Humility and stupidity. Also power. You need to forgive someone.
Cheeks
Long life. Good health. Will be love very much.
Chest
Fullness of life. Generosity. You are having a peaceful time and general prosperity.
Ear
Receptivity. Trouble from unexpected source but big success with an intimate friend.
Eye
Vision. Consciousness and clarity. You will have a pleasant and profitable business and a congenial companion.
Eyelashes
Protection of vision. Allure. You are being cheated by friends. Postponement of success.
Face
Identity. Ego. Self-image. This dream denotes displeasure with yourself and warnings of someone working secretly against you.
Finger
Sensitivity and awareness. It denotes great spiritual research and restless efforts to reach the pinnacle of your ambitions.
Fingernails
Glamorous and functional. You feel ready to handle undesirable situations and to avoid ambitious plans beyond power to accomplish.
Foot
Basic beliefs. Direction in life. You should mend your ways in life otherwise you will suffer from your foolishness.
Hair
Attraction and sensuality. If you dream of hair means that you are careless in your personal affairs and will lose advancement by neglecting mental application.
Hand
Capacity and competence. Expect big work ahead, meanwhile must take better care of own affairs.
Head
Intellect. Understanding. It denotes threatened misery and loss that will be avoided by wise action.
Heart
Love and security. Happy love affairs and successful future. Dignity and distinction.
Hips
To dream about hips denotes pleasant work and good news. Hip being injured means misplace confidence in mate and large losses to the family.
Intestines
They signified unfavorable results in own affairs, probably loss with much displeasure and family quarrels.
Jaw
Relentless anger. Willpower. You have conquered initial difficulties but you are having disagreement with lover.
Joint
Connection .Joints are associated with favorable things.Happiness and domestic joy. Change for the better and plenty of money.
Knee
Flexibility. Humility. To dream of knees denotes sickness and humiliation. It also means dissatisfaction and complaints of those in the home, and separation of lovers.
Leg
Is associated with support and movement. Joy and happiness.,but an injured leg denotes unprofitable occupations.
Lips
Message. Communication. You have many advantages and will have mastery over many matters.
Liver
Sluggishness and bad feelings. This dream denotes unpleasant times and inability to attain comforts that are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.
Lungs
You need to find in what ways are you ready to expand outside your normal life because up to now there was only disappointment in desires.
Mouth
Nourishment. New attitudes. You will soon have news from interests you are anxious over.
Muscles
Strength. You have the power to overcome emotional sorrow but beware of new friendships.
Neck
To dream about any neck, denotes your present feelings of jealously and resentment. It involves emotional problems involving a friend or relative.
Nose
Instinctive knowledge. It reflects great powers of imagination and creativity, but also difficult relations with a partner.
Penis
Male sexuality. Power. You have lots of energy to spare and now would be a good time to take action on a project you have been planning for some time.
Shoulders
Strength or burdens. Although you may be cheerful at the moment, there are problems and worries around the corner. Fortunately they will resolve themselves.
Skeleton
Internal structure. Support. You feel disconnected or falling apart in parts of your life. It can also suggest a lack of trust in someone close to you.
Skin
This dream is related with sensitivity. Keep calm and think carefully before you make any major decisions.
Stomach
Digestion of information. Understanding. It indicates tendency to laziness. You need to keep a close check on your health.
Teeth
Normally an unfavorable sign in a dream. It signifies displeasure and also shows that you are afraid of losing someone dear to you.
Thigh
Associated with power of movement. You should watch out for malicious gossip and it also shows that your behavior is being irrational.
Throat
It shows considerable powers of imagination and signifies a successful venture.
Tongue
A tongue is related with pleasure and new experiences. Is a sign of future professional success.
Vagina
Associated with female sexuality and receptivity. You are about to begin a period where fortune smiles on you in everything you do. You are enthusiastic about a new acquaintance or connection.
Ankle
Support and direction. Difficulties followed by success later. A friend is trying to help you secretly.
Anus
Elimination. It portends quarrels, disappointments and disagreeable companions.
Arm
Strength. To dream of seeing an arm, means victory over enemies but family quarrels.
Back
Unconscious. Jealous people are against you and there is opposition in love.
Blood
Essence. Life energy. Unfortunate love affairs.
Severe disappointment.
Bones
Structure. Evidence. Support. Poverty and death.
Brain
Intellect. Mind and reason. Great knowledge will bring good result in affairs.
Breast
Female sexuality and maternal love. You will have true and loyal friendship and success in love.
Buttocks
Humility and stupidity. Also power. You need to forgive someone.
Cheeks
Long life. Good health. Will be love very much.
Chest
Fullness of life. Generosity. You are having a peaceful time and general prosperity.
Ear
Receptivity. Trouble from unexpected source but big success with an intimate friend.
Eye
Vision. Consciousness and clarity. You will have a pleasant and profitable business and a congenial companion.
Eyelashes
Protection of vision. Allure. You are being cheated by friends. Postponement of success.
Face
Identity. Ego. Self-image. This dream denotes displeasure with yourself and warnings of someone working secretly against you.
Finger
Sensitivity and awareness. It denotes great spiritual research and restless efforts to reach the pinnacle of your ambitions.
Fingernails
Glamorous and functional. You feel ready to handle undesirable situations and to avoid ambitious plans beyond power to accomplish.
Foot
Basic beliefs. Direction in life. You should mend your ways in life otherwise you will suffer from your foolishness.
Hair
Attraction and sensuality. If you dream of hair means that you are careless in your personal affairs and will lose advancement by neglecting mental application.
Hand
Capacity and competence. Expect big work ahead, meanwhile must take better care of own affairs.
Head
Intellect. Understanding. It denotes threatened misery and loss that will be avoided by wise action.
Heart
Love and security. Happy love affairs and successful future. Dignity and distinction.
Hips
To dream about hips denotes pleasant work and good news. Hip being injured means misplace confidence in mate and large losses to the family.
Intestines
They signified unfavorable results in own affairs, probably loss with much displeasure and family quarrels.
Jaw
Relentless anger. Willpower. You have conquered initial difficulties but you are having disagreement with lover.
Joint
Connection .Joints are associated with favorable things.Happiness and domestic joy. Change for the better and plenty of money.
Knee
Flexibility. Humility. To dream of knees denotes sickness and humiliation. It also means dissatisfaction and complaints of those in the home, and separation of lovers.
Leg
Is associated with support and movement. Joy and happiness.,but an injured leg denotes unprofitable occupations.
Lips
Message. Communication. You have many advantages and will have mastery over many matters.
Liver
Sluggishness and bad feelings. This dream denotes unpleasant times and inability to attain comforts that are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.
Lungs
You need to find in what ways are you ready to expand outside your normal life because up to now there was only disappointment in desires.
Mouth
Nourishment. New attitudes. You will soon have news from interests you are anxious over.
Muscles
Strength. You have the power to overcome emotional sorrow but beware of new friendships.
Neck
To dream about any neck, denotes your present feelings of jealously and resentment. It involves emotional problems involving a friend or relative.
Nose
Instinctive knowledge. It reflects great powers of imagination and creativity, but also difficult relations with a partner.
Penis
Male sexuality. Power. You have lots of energy to spare and now would be a good time to take action on a project you have been planning for some time.
Shoulders
Strength or burdens. Although you may be cheerful at the moment, there are problems and worries around the corner. Fortunately they will resolve themselves.
Skeleton
Internal structure. Support. You feel disconnected or falling apart in parts of your life. It can also suggest a lack of trust in someone close to you.
Skin
This dream is related with sensitivity. Keep calm and think carefully before you make any major decisions.
Stomach
Digestion of information. Understanding. It indicates tendency to laziness. You need to keep a close check on your health.
Teeth
Normally an unfavorable sign in a dream. It signifies displeasure and also shows that you are afraid of losing someone dear to you.
Thigh
Associated with power of movement. You should watch out for malicious gossip and it also shows that your behavior is being irrational.
Throat
It shows considerable powers of imagination and signifies a successful venture.
Tongue
A tongue is related with pleasure and new experiences. Is a sign of future professional success.
Vagina
Associated with female sexuality and receptivity. You are about to begin a period where fortune smiles on you in everything you do. You are enthusiastic about a new acquaintance or connection.
Dream interpretation ..Colors
Beige
Everything related with this color denotes neutrality and detachment. There is absence of communication.
Black
Black signifies isolation and transition period. It shows up conflicts and friction with relations and friends.
Blue
This dream denotes a great source of inner peace and a symbol of contentment.
Brown
This is an auspicious color to dream about:signifies freedom, success, money and happy and long-lasting union.
Gray
Related with a transition period. If clear signifies peace but if dull signifies, fear.
Green
Growth and serenity. There are projects which you are enthusiastic about. Great pleasures from simple things.
Orange
The color orange in dreams indicates passion in every aspect of your life.
Pink
Associated with tenderness and love. You can expect interesting developments in relations with opposite sex.
Purple
Great aspirations and understanding of visible and invisible realms. Take advantage of your creativity.
Red
This is an indication of great passion and sensitivity in your emotional relationships.
Turquoise
Normally indicates new opportunities and the successful completion of projects. Sign of good luck.
White
People feel they can rely on you. You have an abundance of energy and vitality.
Yellow
This color is a sign of confidence in yourself and your abilities but will encounter opposition
Everything related with this color denotes neutrality and detachment. There is absence of communication.
Black
Black signifies isolation and transition period. It shows up conflicts and friction with relations and friends.
Blue
This dream denotes a great source of inner peace and a symbol of contentment.
Brown
This is an auspicious color to dream about:signifies freedom, success, money and happy and long-lasting union.
Gray
Related with a transition period. If clear signifies peace but if dull signifies, fear.
Green
Growth and serenity. There are projects which you are enthusiastic about. Great pleasures from simple things.
Orange
The color orange in dreams indicates passion in every aspect of your life.
Pink
Associated with tenderness and love. You can expect interesting developments in relations with opposite sex.
Purple
Great aspirations and understanding of visible and invisible realms. Take advantage of your creativity.
Red
This is an indication of great passion and sensitivity in your emotional relationships.
Turquoise
Normally indicates new opportunities and the successful completion of projects. Sign of good luck.
White
People feel they can rely on you. You have an abundance of energy and vitality.
Yellow
This color is a sign of confidence in yourself and your abilities but will encounter opposition
Dream interpretation ..Calendar Months
January
To dream of this month,signifies financial gains,a mystery will be solved and beware of a false friend nearby.
February
Usually associated with health problems and many worries. There is hope for beneficial events to come.
March
To dream of the month of march portends disappointing returns in business and enemies could cause damages.
April
It signifies that much pleasure and profit are in the horizon,but if the weather is miserable,it is a sign of distress.
May
To dream of this month denotes prosperous times and pleasure for the young. Do not be discourage.
June
Will have good earnings but must rely on own good judgement. Avoid rivals.
July
To dream of July,foretells unusual gains in all undertakings. Use caution in your affairs.
August
Overall a positive month . All will go well in life, will take a long trip,and will receive unexpected good news.
September
To dream of September means good luck,changes for the better and desires and hopes will be accomplished.
October
To see yourself in October means you are enjoying the fruits of hard work and will make lasting friendships.
November
To dream of November ,augers a time of happiness and success in all affairs.
December
It is a month that foretells accumulation of wealth,but loss of friendship. Will be very fortunate in love affairs
To dream of this month,signifies financial gains,a mystery will be solved and beware of a false friend nearby.
February
Usually associated with health problems and many worries. There is hope for beneficial events to come.
March
To dream of the month of march portends disappointing returns in business and enemies could cause damages.
April
It signifies that much pleasure and profit are in the horizon,but if the weather is miserable,it is a sign of distress.
May
To dream of this month denotes prosperous times and pleasure for the young. Do not be discourage.
June
Will have good earnings but must rely on own good judgement. Avoid rivals.
July
To dream of July,foretells unusual gains in all undertakings. Use caution in your affairs.
August
Overall a positive month . All will go well in life, will take a long trip,and will receive unexpected good news.
September
To dream of September means good luck,changes for the better and desires and hopes will be accomplished.
October
To see yourself in October means you are enjoying the fruits of hard work and will make lasting friendships.
November
To dream of November ,augers a time of happiness and success in all affairs.
December
It is a month that foretells accumulation of wealth,but loss of friendship. Will be very fortunate in love affairs
Dream interpretation...Animals
Animals
Alligator
It is a dream of caution. Primordial fear. Be careful in making new speculations. It is a dream unfavorable to all persons connected to it.
Ants
Expect good business activity. Feelings of general satisfaction in all things. You must cooperate to achieve your desires.
Ape
Warns the dreamer to beware. Deceit goes with this dream. You will find opposition in love.
Ass
Simplicity and sturdiness. Success in your undertakings, whether of travel or love. Surrounded by loyal friends.
Bat
Nocturnal. Eerie. Quarrels. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you.
Bear
Victory over enemies. Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every kind.
Bees
Activity. Productivity. Social life. Happiness in life. Success in love. Good earnings. Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.
Birds
Flying birds are a sign of prosperity to the dreamer. Feelings of freedom, liberation from weight of responsibilities.
Boa
It indicates stormy times and bad fortune. Will be wise not to listen to flattery.
Buffalo
Augurs obstinate and powerful but stupid enemies. By diplomacy you will escape much misfortune.
Bull
Fertility and strength. To dream about bulls means having great success in love affairs but also business troubles or a big loss.
Butterflies
Everything related to beauty and grace. They are an indication of prosperity and fair attainments.
Camel
Portraits of endurance. To see this beast signifies great financial gain, perhaps inheritance. First there will be hardship and obstacles to overcome.
Canary
A dream of having a canary at home translates into a happy and comfortable life full of exquisite refinement, wealth and satisfying friendships.
Cat
A feminine aspect. Cats attacking you represent the enemies; if you succeed banishing them you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame.
Chicken
Easy available. They represent fortune in love, joy and happiness in all aspects of your life.
Clams
Dealings with an obstinate but honest person. Will enjoy a comfortable life.
Cock
A dream about hearing a cock crow means great prosperity and good news. Cocks fighting means family quarrels and unexpected sorrow.
Cow
Docile and productive. Great prosperity in all ventures but watch out your own affairs carefully. Cows promise abundant fulfillment of hopes and desires.
Coyote
Trickster. Rogue. Thief. This means doomed for disappointment or serious disaster ahead.
Crab
Crabs relate to love affairs. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship. Also, avoid rivals.
Cricket
To see crickets in your dream indicates hard struggles with poverty. They also indicate famine and distress among the poor.
Crow
Seeing a crow in your dream means disappointment in everything. Grief and misfortune.
Deer
Everything related to a deer is favorable. A long lasting friendship, good business affairs and fortune in love.
Dog
To dream about a dog that fondles you indicates great gain and constant friends. To hear the barking of dogs foretells news of a depressing nature. Difficulties are more likely to follow.
Donkey
See Ass.
Duck
It signifies fortunate journeys, also they could indicate thrift and a fine harvest. It also denotes marriage and children in a new home.
Eagle
They are associated with far-sighted vision and power. You will realize your ambitions and will gain your desires. Fame, wealth and a higher position are attainable.
Eel
Slipperiness. A dream about them is good only if you can maintain a grip on it, otherwise fortune will be fleeting.
Elephant
They are associated with terms like wisdom, memory and the power of persistence. Overall is a very positive dream that will bring you dignity and distinction.
Fish
To dream about fish or fishing denotes energy and economy. A fish in clear water expresses freedom related with your feelings.
Fleas
They denote sickness and minor irritations. You are feeling the need to deal with old troubles also.
Flies
You are feeling annoyed by friends and maybe thinking of doing something foolish. There is a postponement of success.
Fox
To dream about a fox means that an enemy or rival is among your acquaintances. If the dream involves the killing of a fox you will overcome a threat of trouble and will win in every engagement.
Frog
They are related with health problems and may cause no little distress among those of your family.
Gazelle
Grace and beauty. Dreaming about them brings joy, genuine love and affection.
Geese
They might bring an extensive journey surrounded by good fortune.
Goats
They are associated with lusty vigor and relentless energy. It denotes cautious dealings and a steady increase of wealth.
Goldfish
To dream of goldfish, is a prognostic of many successful and pleasant adventures.
Gorilla
You will regain your strength but there will be a postponement of success.
Hawk
Generally a dream of hawks means increase in your fortune but if the hawk is flying you could face losses caused through intrigue.
Hogs
If you dream about feeding hogs, denotes and increase in your personal belongings, but will have much rough work to perform.
Horse
To dream about horses generally is associated with big earnings and will enjoy prosperous and happy life.
Insects
Overall a dream of insects denotes financial gains, abundant means, and also a mystery will be solved.
Jellyfish
A dream of jellyfish is associated with passive aggression in you and the way you are looking to express yourself more forcefully. Don't give away your heart.
Kangaroo
Hostility of someone will cause great anxiety. You need exercise great care of reputation.
Lamb
It means that prosperity will be gained through the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment. Lasting friendship.
Leech
To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests. Doomed for disappointment.
Leopard
Enemies seek to cause injury but will fail. You will be embarrassed in business or love, but by persistent efforts you will overcome difficulties.
Lice
A dream of lice contains worries and distress. A warning to beware how you begin a new enterprise, as you will likely be overtaken by disappointment.
Lion
A dream about lions is associated with nobility, strength and pride. Your success depends upon your ability to cope with opposition. Will have a valuable friendship.
Lizard
Enemies will cause you injury, but if in the dream you are killing a lizard means you will have a good reputation and will regain lost fortune.
Lobster
To dream of seeing lobsters, denotes great favors and riches will endow you.
Mice
They foretell domestic troubles and business affairs will assume a discouraging tone.
Mollusk
Mysterious happenings will claim your attention, therefore do not believe too readily all you hear.
Monkey
To dream of a monkey ,denotes you have deceitful friends that will flatter you to advance their own interest. Opposition in love.
Mosquito
If you killed mosquitoes in your dreams, you will eventually overcome obstacles and enjoy fortune and domestic bliss, otherwise you will strive in vain to the sly attacks of secret enemies.
Octopus
There are associated with shyness and grasping. You will be loved for your sweetness of disposition.
Orangutan
To dream of an orangutan, denotes that some person is falsely using your influence to further selfish schemes.
Otter
To see them diving and sporting will bring you happiness and good fortune. An absent friend will soon return.
Owl
Warning of the approach of a deceitful person. It denotes a narrow escape from desperate illness or death.
Oysters
You can be tender inside but hard outside. You need courage to succeed in life.
Panther
Wild beauty and grace. Enemies will fail in attempts to injure you.
Parrot
You have confidence of friends, but will received flattery from a deceitful person. There is a place in your life where you lack originality.
Peacock
You want to be admired but will be disappointed. Maybe you are too ambitious.
Pig
Greedy but smart. Dreaming about them, denotes reasonable success in affairs. Prosperity to come.
Pigeon
To dream of seeing pigeon flying, denotes freedom from misunderstanding, and perhaps news from the absent.
Quail
To see them alive means a very favorable omen; if dead, you will undergo serious ill luck.
Rabbit
To dream of rabbits denotes faithfulness in love and a great friendship. Very good business ventures.
Rat
Street smarts. Sneaky and untrustworthy. They foretell serious trouble to come but unfinished business will be successful.
Raven
Disaster and unhappiness to come. Injury caused through deceit.
Reptile
People are gossiping against you and beware of hidden enemies. Need to be cautious in business affairs.
Rhinoceros
To dream about them, foretells you will have a great loss threatening you and that you will have secret troubles.
Salmon
It could mean advancement within own position and approaching money but beware of a rival.
Sardines
Troubles are ahead for you, maybe a disagreement among relatives. You have a black mark of dishonor on you.
Scorpion
They are related with destructive feelings, thoughts or words against you.
Seal
You have many faithful friends and security in love. Secret enemies are working against you.
Shark
There is a powerful feeling threatening you, but you will overcome obstacles.
Sheep
A dream about sheep foretells coming success through well-conceived plans.
Snake
A snake ready to strike means treachery from one you least expected; killing it means victory over enemies.
Spider
To dream of a spider, denotes you being careful and energetic in your labors and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions. Domestic happiness.
Squirrel
To see squirrels in your dream foretell you will acquire a few new friends and there is happiness in the home.
Swan
To dream of seeing swans holds prosperous outlooks and delightful experiences. Also they ring good health and revelation of a mystery.
Tarantula
To dream you see a tarantula, denotes disagreeable prospect for health or for pleasure. Will be disappointed in a love affair.
Tiger
They are associated with power, wild beauty and intense sexual force. You will overcome opposition and rise to a high position in your way to enjoy luxuries with ease and pleasure.
Turtle
Opportunity for advancement is available to you. You have secret enemies around.
Vulture
To dream of vultures, signifies that you are unable to reconcile misunderstandings with a friend, and maybe a long illness that may bring death and misery.
Whale
They are related with power and strength. Good times are coming. There is a great truth that you are ready to accept.
Alligator
It is a dream of caution. Primordial fear. Be careful in making new speculations. It is a dream unfavorable to all persons connected to it.
Ants
Expect good business activity. Feelings of general satisfaction in all things. You must cooperate to achieve your desires.
Ape
Warns the dreamer to beware. Deceit goes with this dream. You will find opposition in love.
Ass
Simplicity and sturdiness. Success in your undertakings, whether of travel or love. Surrounded by loyal friends.
Bat
Nocturnal. Eerie. Quarrels. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you.
Bear
Victory over enemies. Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every kind.
Bees
Activity. Productivity. Social life. Happiness in life. Success in love. Good earnings. Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.
Birds
Flying birds are a sign of prosperity to the dreamer. Feelings of freedom, liberation from weight of responsibilities.
Boa
It indicates stormy times and bad fortune. Will be wise not to listen to flattery.
Buffalo
Augurs obstinate and powerful but stupid enemies. By diplomacy you will escape much misfortune.
Bull
Fertility and strength. To dream about bulls means having great success in love affairs but also business troubles or a big loss.
Butterflies
Everything related to beauty and grace. They are an indication of prosperity and fair attainments.
Camel
Portraits of endurance. To see this beast signifies great financial gain, perhaps inheritance. First there will be hardship and obstacles to overcome.
Canary
A dream of having a canary at home translates into a happy and comfortable life full of exquisite refinement, wealth and satisfying friendships.
Cat
A feminine aspect. Cats attacking you represent the enemies; if you succeed banishing them you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame.
Chicken
Easy available. They represent fortune in love, joy and happiness in all aspects of your life.
Clams
Dealings with an obstinate but honest person. Will enjoy a comfortable life.
Cock
A dream about hearing a cock crow means great prosperity and good news. Cocks fighting means family quarrels and unexpected sorrow.
Cow
Docile and productive. Great prosperity in all ventures but watch out your own affairs carefully. Cows promise abundant fulfillment of hopes and desires.
Coyote
Trickster. Rogue. Thief. This means doomed for disappointment or serious disaster ahead.
Crab
Crabs relate to love affairs. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship. Also, avoid rivals.
Cricket
To see crickets in your dream indicates hard struggles with poverty. They also indicate famine and distress among the poor.
Crow
Seeing a crow in your dream means disappointment in everything. Grief and misfortune.
Deer
Everything related to a deer is favorable. A long lasting friendship, good business affairs and fortune in love.
Dog
To dream about a dog that fondles you indicates great gain and constant friends. To hear the barking of dogs foretells news of a depressing nature. Difficulties are more likely to follow.
Donkey
See Ass.
Duck
It signifies fortunate journeys, also they could indicate thrift and a fine harvest. It also denotes marriage and children in a new home.
Eagle
They are associated with far-sighted vision and power. You will realize your ambitions and will gain your desires. Fame, wealth and a higher position are attainable.
Eel
Slipperiness. A dream about them is good only if you can maintain a grip on it, otherwise fortune will be fleeting.
Elephant
They are associated with terms like wisdom, memory and the power of persistence. Overall is a very positive dream that will bring you dignity and distinction.
Fish
To dream about fish or fishing denotes energy and economy. A fish in clear water expresses freedom related with your feelings.
Fleas
They denote sickness and minor irritations. You are feeling the need to deal with old troubles also.
Flies
You are feeling annoyed by friends and maybe thinking of doing something foolish. There is a postponement of success.
Fox
To dream about a fox means that an enemy or rival is among your acquaintances. If the dream involves the killing of a fox you will overcome a threat of trouble and will win in every engagement.
Frog
They are related with health problems and may cause no little distress among those of your family.
Gazelle
Grace and beauty. Dreaming about them brings joy, genuine love and affection.
Geese
They might bring an extensive journey surrounded by good fortune.
Goats
They are associated with lusty vigor and relentless energy. It denotes cautious dealings and a steady increase of wealth.
Goldfish
To dream of goldfish, is a prognostic of many successful and pleasant adventures.
Gorilla
You will regain your strength but there will be a postponement of success.
Hawk
Generally a dream of hawks means increase in your fortune but if the hawk is flying you could face losses caused through intrigue.
Hogs
If you dream about feeding hogs, denotes and increase in your personal belongings, but will have much rough work to perform.
Horse
To dream about horses generally is associated with big earnings and will enjoy prosperous and happy life.
Insects
Overall a dream of insects denotes financial gains, abundant means, and also a mystery will be solved.
Jellyfish
A dream of jellyfish is associated with passive aggression in you and the way you are looking to express yourself more forcefully. Don't give away your heart.
Kangaroo
Hostility of someone will cause great anxiety. You need exercise great care of reputation.
Lamb
It means that prosperity will be gained through the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment. Lasting friendship.
Leech
To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests. Doomed for disappointment.
Leopard
Enemies seek to cause injury but will fail. You will be embarrassed in business or love, but by persistent efforts you will overcome difficulties.
Lice
A dream of lice contains worries and distress. A warning to beware how you begin a new enterprise, as you will likely be overtaken by disappointment.
Lion
A dream about lions is associated with nobility, strength and pride. Your success depends upon your ability to cope with opposition. Will have a valuable friendship.
Lizard
Enemies will cause you injury, but if in the dream you are killing a lizard means you will have a good reputation and will regain lost fortune.
Lobster
To dream of seeing lobsters, denotes great favors and riches will endow you.
Mice
They foretell domestic troubles and business affairs will assume a discouraging tone.
Mollusk
Mysterious happenings will claim your attention, therefore do not believe too readily all you hear.
Monkey
To dream of a monkey ,denotes you have deceitful friends that will flatter you to advance their own interest. Opposition in love.
Mosquito
If you killed mosquitoes in your dreams, you will eventually overcome obstacles and enjoy fortune and domestic bliss, otherwise you will strive in vain to the sly attacks of secret enemies.
Octopus
There are associated with shyness and grasping. You will be loved for your sweetness of disposition.
Orangutan
To dream of an orangutan, denotes that some person is falsely using your influence to further selfish schemes.
Otter
To see them diving and sporting will bring you happiness and good fortune. An absent friend will soon return.
Owl
Warning of the approach of a deceitful person. It denotes a narrow escape from desperate illness or death.
Oysters
You can be tender inside but hard outside. You need courage to succeed in life.
Panther
Wild beauty and grace. Enemies will fail in attempts to injure you.
Parrot
You have confidence of friends, but will received flattery from a deceitful person. There is a place in your life where you lack originality.
Peacock
You want to be admired but will be disappointed. Maybe you are too ambitious.
Pig
Greedy but smart. Dreaming about them, denotes reasonable success in affairs. Prosperity to come.
Pigeon
To dream of seeing pigeon flying, denotes freedom from misunderstanding, and perhaps news from the absent.
Quail
To see them alive means a very favorable omen; if dead, you will undergo serious ill luck.
Rabbit
To dream of rabbits denotes faithfulness in love and a great friendship. Very good business ventures.
Rat
Street smarts. Sneaky and untrustworthy. They foretell serious trouble to come but unfinished business will be successful.
Raven
Disaster and unhappiness to come. Injury caused through deceit.
Reptile
People are gossiping against you and beware of hidden enemies. Need to be cautious in business affairs.
Rhinoceros
To dream about them, foretells you will have a great loss threatening you and that you will have secret troubles.
Salmon
It could mean advancement within own position and approaching money but beware of a rival.
Sardines
Troubles are ahead for you, maybe a disagreement among relatives. You have a black mark of dishonor on you.
Scorpion
They are related with destructive feelings, thoughts or words against you.
Seal
You have many faithful friends and security in love. Secret enemies are working against you.
Shark
There is a powerful feeling threatening you, but you will overcome obstacles.
Sheep
A dream about sheep foretells coming success through well-conceived plans.
Snake
A snake ready to strike means treachery from one you least expected; killing it means victory over enemies.
Spider
To dream of a spider, denotes you being careful and energetic in your labors and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions. Domestic happiness.
Squirrel
To see squirrels in your dream foretell you will acquire a few new friends and there is happiness in the home.
Swan
To dream of seeing swans holds prosperous outlooks and delightful experiences. Also they ring good health and revelation of a mystery.
Tarantula
To dream you see a tarantula, denotes disagreeable prospect for health or for pleasure. Will be disappointed in a love affair.
Tiger
They are associated with power, wild beauty and intense sexual force. You will overcome opposition and rise to a high position in your way to enjoy luxuries with ease and pleasure.
Turtle
Opportunity for advancement is available to you. You have secret enemies around.
Vulture
To dream of vultures, signifies that you are unable to reconcile misunderstandings with a friend, and maybe a long illness that may bring death and misery.
Whale
They are related with power and strength. Good times are coming. There is a great truth that you are ready to accept.
Habits of people and religion in a dream
Habits of people and religion in a dream
I know that sleeping on the mercy of God Abdo; to rest his body when the hard work without lifting. To learn God deficit spirit from the body of masterminding ever. Sleeping is: The fumes spirit behind the body; Vthjbh the measure, and is only Kalmlk example - if withholding the same measure to rest his kingdom and his aides in the rest obscured by time - It is unwise to God - when the absence of the spirit behind - three precious list; former: Self imagination. Women like something, to imagine every form faces. And make it a soul portfolio reservation imagination conceived. And making a soul connected to the spirit behind - if uncovered by block - for acting against what he sees. To make God as well as sleep only for his kindness and wisdom, as the case may be vigilant that the human is known to exist, what happens all the time as if it were so, people were tied to them Balonbia peace
Chapter II
Vision into two divisions: true, and corrupt True: What was saved plate which had provisions (). Section II: corrupt: not rule it. Which is five sections: I: self-talk: that the same is happening in human vigilance nothing, Verah in a dream. As well as usual. Seed said: It began by mentioning the corrupt I said. If known, what other information is true. The group said that the corrupt and these sections have increased by: witches, devils and sent, and so on. It is not real (). And said non-debatable. In the knowledge efficiently. Seed said: Every one of the sections if deemed corrupt with the increase; the increase was not corrupt sex ruling, but not sex Vaturk corrupt and spoke on the rise (). Section II: The predominance of blood. Is to see many red, or ridiculous things, or Almlhep. Section III: A drop of yellow. Like someone who sees nothing very yellow, or Hmosa, or fire, and nothing unreasonable. Section IV: The is the predominance of black. Like someone who finds many Aldechackhen or degradation, or either, or so. Section V: The predominance of sputum. Finds like rain or clouds, or water, or grayer, and so is something unreasonable.
Chapter III
In the types of vision Four types of vision: One: commendable apparent, and Batna. Like the view that Bari was speaking to God - or one of the angels, or prophets, peace be upon them - in character, or talk well. Like someone finds it combines jewels, or good food. Or if it finds in places of worship obedient to the Lord Almighty. And so on. Seed said: Since it was not known Jidha vision of the replies, however, in this regard, she stated that the teacher does not look as good for self-Atqdth glee when the vision. Not that rosy as it horrified him. But should depend on the assets of this science to Benah, God Almighty (). Type II: welcome apparent, Mzmomp Batna. Ksma entertainment, or smell the flowers. And that concerns Onkada. Or like someone who believes that the high office - is not worthy of it - is poor. Seed said: Since the casinos often hear concerns go - flower tattoo Aguiba only that - that was just peachy. Also: the fact that it needs the expenditures and cost - not the result of a point of reference is spent in an interview - without the benefit was fine; giving bile. Also: the flowers often requested for ill; and also giving bile. Because all that has something Observatory, the means of existence of that. Perhaps a bucket to the vagina. Type III: Bad behavior apparent, and Batna. Live like someone who finds Dgth or Ohrgueth fire, drowning or stream, or destroyed his home, or broken trees. It poorly, apparent, and Batna; to the significant concern, and spleen. Type IV: Bad behavior apparent, commendable Batna. Like someone who believes that marry his mother or his son slaughtered: it demonstrates to meet the outlook, and the pilgrimage to the largest places of worship, and that the benefit of his mother, or marry his son, and to continue to parents and relatives, and the response Group (). Seed said: As it was daunting to continue and sweet affection and sociability post often given to what we stated from the charity in place. The fact that Tia and gave a taboo in all - the weight of no man’s land in the country, and to walk - Aziz when he Kalkaabp Islam, Jerusalem, Jews and Christians, and fire at the house of thought, and so on, and so Vavhm it. Del slaughter, but the child of what we are relative to the story of Hebron, peace be upon him.
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Chapter IV
Almileihp vision often interpreted to be delayed (). This generosity of God promising before the incident, to rejoice in self-reaching. And perhaps the interpretation is necessary for the needs seer. As mentioned in the book Galen »trick Albrooe« that the man of tongue tumor, so filled jaws, and Astafrg doctors in their treatment; did not work. Abandoning treatment. The man handed himself to death. He believed in people sleep told him: Tamadamad Basarp lettuce. Doing so Fberi. And often Alrdip vision: to see them soon, or after the fact; so narrow chest before. If the one that ask; Is it something evil, which proved a dream it. If it was just before interpretation, and only being. Seed said: but the God Almighty Annunciation in a dream; fearful of safe, and requests Aleghant, and rejoices with sadness, released burdened, and so on; because God Almighty is fine if we had also promised to Almighty is not what the donation. If dating evil, the pardon or forgive. God erase what he wants and proven. This is appointed by the generosity and the credit worthy of His Majesty the Almighty.
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Chapter V
Perhaps the vision competent Balraii alone. Like someone who came to the view that the sky was staying, and was sick: He died. If not patients: traveled. If fit with the mandate: attached, or entered the role of senior companions. The employers were charged: Tlss, or spy on the news. Perhaps him and others. Like someone who believed that the fire burned his home, and the role of people: Diseases, or the injustice of the King, or death, or the enemy, or sedition all-pervasive. It may not be seen as it is, but have other children or parents, relatives or acquaintances on it. Man felt that his father burned with fire: seer died, and the fire burning Gmh father. Last saw his mother died: stalling the living. Because his mother was the reason for his persistence, Kalmaicp. The last thought that Adam died: his father died. That is the cause of its existence. Like someone felt that the damage to eyes: his son died, which is the apple of the eye
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Chapter VI Perhaps things shown on one thing. Man saw that the sun Anksvet The last Blotted if the sea and found another country or haf; of worship or ruins, and another felt great demolish a mountain, perhaps Del all: The death of a large king, or the world, or in charge. It is evidence of recurrence or death reminded us of the loss. Perhaps one thing Del things (). The sick from eating pomegranate: He died. It is the king: his country. And the wife of the single. It is where a pregnant: born. It is the dealer: his money. It is for the poor: dinars, or AED. : The boat; those who serve him vessels. The show: animal, owned, and the role; them because their lives Hail Kalpiot. God’s mercy seed said: If things involved in the description of one; repeated again and again in a dream; often be judged one Alrdip things. The sun and sea, horses, and the great fire, and the large stone, building prepared for the benefit of the people, all of them on the D: Galilee equally beneficial to the people, and ruling them. If such down the scourge of those often in a dream that perhaps one person died as well. The group perished Unlike usual. As if those seen evidence of righteousness Del rest happens to all. A generous manner to God and his kindness towards His slaves.
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Chapter VII
One dream in different languages different. Kambassrgel: Ezz, beauty and comfort for those who know the language of the Persians. Because their language: gorgeous. It is the Arabs and Ixhm D: travel, evacuate. Different religions and different. Like someone who believes that eating the dead, dead: Money haram, or sulk at the thought of outlawing, the income and utility at the thought of the solution. Varies according to time. Astala the fire and Altdwi sun, and winter clothing, use warm water, and the illness is so cold, cold or time: the best comfort. Which in the summer: disease, or moodiness. The use of high-cloth, or cold water, etc, in the summer: comfort and utility. In the winter: reversed. Varies depending morning. The confusion of arms, or the number of idle soldiers: the service. For the fighters: victory. Abid and men: the invalidity of worship. And others: strife and rivalry. Varies among different places. The strip in the bathroom, in the usual place: good. One. It pools in other people: poor, famous and not. Especially if exposed genitals. Varies depending on the habits of people. The hours beard, or head, where the desirable: the good, and go sulk. It would also: moodiness, and loss, when the hated (). Varies depending on livelihoods and livelihood, the unequivocal cloth dirt or soil divided up by, or old, for cooks, Aloviaden, and the like: D to generate a livelihood; because they do not wear it only at the time of livelihood. A poorly against the others. The clean unequivocal: evidence of the invalidity of living. Because they do not Ilbssouna only in times of unemployment. This, smell good to others: high, the best. And a good heart, a beautiful tribute, the right of others. Varies depending on diseases. Allaoat the employers warm diseases: the length of the disease, and moodiness. : The good Albroodat owners. The sour, they have: good. We are a hard Albroodat owners. The different death and life. The unequivocal silk or gold: hated, those who do not fit the men. He is Dead: evidence that the silk heaven. And different classes for different; the tree turned out in decades: good, and useful to come. As well as in times under free. The evidence has found otherwise. Seed said: one as a different thing if Raiih. The unequivocal high in winter or cold to a patient: moody. The contrast of that in the summer. Employers heat and Azab: Lin Hin good marriage. Buildings and employers: a good place, and demonstrates the cohabitation of a good creation. Travel and employers: the way easy. And employers meet her needs: to facilitate things. Employers abscesses and sores in the body: the well-being. And so on. Conversely reversed. Flmna so that if people see roads, or view the wide range of conditions, different provision for different case, as we have. And Allaah knows best. Vavhm that. If things involved in the description of one repeated again and again in a dream; often be judged one Alrdip things. The words for people to the term sex seer. As if a melon on the petulance of Batat or a traitor to extract it. Which some language Hijaz D petulance of love and ten; that their own love love. Vavhm and so on. If one usually caught in the head or beard was long vigilance - not the same demise that happened - it is good D on what we have. If the same happened Mahellouka or Bswalh not rule it. As if it were not vigilant shaven hair Del Odmr stay on religion and concerns, disease and talk Alrdi. And so on Almighty God forbid. Shaving the beard or head to one that is desirable: the best and go sulk. The loss and pettish that when the hated. This provision out considerably. It is overlooked by most employers this regard. Can not be overlooked at all, the rule of the most poor, but not correct, but what we considered those conditions and progress, not overlooked by mistake. And God knows best. The Allaoat of what we are. The land of true if the death of wounded or broken some teeth, or contaminated with something of his clothes, given the quality of bile Vavhm that. But the acid rosy as we have; constriction of the change in the human and fruit, and alienated souls to eat free at the other; that just does not eaten sour without the need for only mode. Otherwise, sweet, salt and Kalmr is not only eaten often or by the need. The tree turned out in time: the best benefit to come. Iqbal and every time a tree near the use of the public as it Mrsdp him. Vavhm all it can benefit the demand of its time, so you say to those who want wood on the tree land: a future rest easy. For those who ask Rgaha their gifts: berries as the emergence of paper: a future benefit. It enabled the request Tmrha: the benefit of time on what we explained in place.
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Chapter VIII
The habits of people and their religions. Like someone who believes that eating green beans, when Sabian: Money is forbidden, and moody; it is forbidden to them. The Magi are deprived of beef, Jews are denied meat seated, and some deprived Greece chicken, Islam denied alcohol, this and similar: wrong when people believe, and the livelihoods and benefits be addressed when. Women also felt if they Tzni, people Eibesrunha: they are a rosy reputation, and moodiness. If India: Del it to court, and is famous with that, Weber, and have a nice tribute, because they Itqrbun to God adultery. Most God for that. The Magi worship fire, if one considered to have been stoked a fire, or exchange them harm, or Sujud them: they have been good and useful, and worship. As well as sunflower, if noticed: in character. The four women entered the scourge: Venqassan located in their religion and their country. As well as the worship of something, it was also his, either in heaven or earth, or Tazation. The decrease took the four women, it is in their religion, their country is bad. Seed said: banned by Sabian green beans because of Iazmonh was to say: the principles of Nawara, and strength of Okhaddrh, and the land goes to you. And all people of all religions painted habits of restraint Tballm them from abuse Crahm, became the list serves as the project debt to them. But said the man who says so: This is not at the origin of Bmahram Shara; How ruled that it is haram, or novelty, or otherwise? But they tell us what we have so neglected in the interpretation will benefit provision, or close to, Know that. And Indian homes have been taken ahead of a money had built a place, and stopped by my neighborhood Imidhouna specific times in what was done. Ebadhm and go to these places Itrhmwa the owner. Abid is why the adultery with any of those slain chose particular, is intended to reward the delivery of those ongoing, it became its credit them. As the magnitude of sunflower and fire Balsjod her and other lights for the sake of the Almighty Creator Jhalam I think it is the gods, has become the rule of their religion, therefore, whatever happens, those good or evil religion returned to learn that.
And learn that the person may view the same evidence of good, he returned to his relatives and friends, Amotmin to Gmh, excited to happiness (). This is evil, and Nkda, against the enemy; Igtm being bestowed, and rejoices Pennekdh. It is also the opinion of itself evidence of bile, he returned to his relatives and friends. The enemy of the good, and rest. As well as if in a dream down Bteke is poorly, got behind me for the benefit and convenience. Moreover, if it was a good indication: the case for me, vex; that human comfort Itnkd enemy. Seed said: As the co-seer with the ex and loved ones in good and evil have become one Kalshe. The friend of the enemy and love Kalt. If you want to know the provisions of those Fmthalh seer to tell you: Ali Hassan silk clothing fit for it, says: The wife of Azab, and comfort to the poor and the rich an invaluable, and the usefulness of the owners require Mstji you. Then say: your enemy gets moody. If the territory of the work of an ad hoc, says: a man of that territory or dealer comes from that place, or to trade. The woman made that says: moody woman, or Marefk or Glmanc, or an invaluable, and so on; for being in pain if you saw what Ihsdk it. Or say: get to acquaintances as well. If it is said: Anything from the benchmarks. The said: was surrounded Almishqip disadvantage. Say: in the face, or his mark. And also said that: in quantity, the brand in the hand. Chest, is in his heart. From behind, the words in his presentation, or a defect in his back. Conversely, if the enemy is in the character of the moral is not the seer had the petulance of what we have said, as if in the character of a rosy, as we have said judge between. This separation is very nice Vaaml explained to you is a strange interpretation has not the former, and others also explained one of the Almighty God’s favor and generosity.
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Chapter X
One may have been a dream for me, alone. Perhaps those who govern it. Kmenam Children, husbands, and slaves, and partners; for the participation of the mentioned in the goodness and evil, often. As well as each group had their government or their earnings, one entity, or in one place. As heads of schools, Akhawank and angles, and them. What struck one of the good or evil, perhaps back to everyone. Seed said: As the co Zkrnahm of interest and comfort to what we have become like most men per case. If the dream Voatth none of them good and evil and giving effect to himself and his money, children and lieutenant. Failing to find a face-to Varddh group participants in the profit and convenience of what we are. Perhaps the explanation to him and bear his children and his money and who is required to partner with them in the interest Vavhm that.
Chapter ten atheist The derivation of the names (). The Weevil: show bad, and bad. The herbs and fruit if the world: evidence of hypocrisy, shows the patient: for good. Who is afraid, and felt Naranj, he was told: fire, just ask yourself to survive. The Tattletale: evidence of defamation. It is requested need, and saw Jasmine: Aliias shown, which is spelled and lying. The Almishqip: show the vagina, and Alrgip. And the vision of the vagina, whoever is in the intensity: joy and pleasure. The unequivocal mat, or sit by, those who do not fit him, and eat sour grapes and likened it: D sorrowfully, inventory, and the siege, and so on. Seed said: Perhaps God concealed governance implied in the derivation. A master vision. Either take all the floor like a stick with which harms the people unjustly, saying: Asi this man because he disobeyed Biadsth unlawfully. The patient procedure inkwell presented to him, he says: came wellness. That the medication had came. And sometimes it was some derivation of the word. The man told me as a kind of white cloud. I said: Zaman is Ame, it may be blank as I was. Nebula that some of what we dropped the rest. Perhaps in his Achtakkakan. Kmishqip says: Faraj of distress, is hopes to get as far as you Almishqip, giving effect to it. And sometimes it Baltsahev also said poorly people face: I saw Berguiv stolen, and the ashes of the summit in person, so I almost died. I told him: you get moody for the theft was as I said.
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Chapter ten atheist The derivation of the names (). The Weevil: show bad, and bad. The herbs and fruit if the world: evidence of hypocrisy, shows the patient: for good. Who is afraid, and felt Naranj, he was told: fire, just ask yourself to survive. The Tattletale: evidence of defamation. It is requested need, and saw Jasmine: Aliias shown, which is spelled and lying. The Almishqip: show the vagina, and Alrgip. And the vision of the vagina, whoever is in the intensity: joy and pleasure. The unequivocal mat, or sit by, those who do not fit him, and eat sour grapes and likened it: D sorrowfully, inventory, and the siege, and so on. Seed said: Perhaps God concealed governance implied in the derivation. A master vision. Either take all the floor like a stick with which harms the people unjustly, saying: Asi this man because he disobeyed Biadsth unlawfully. The patient procedure inkwell presented to him, he says: came wellness. That the medication had came. And sometimes it was some derivation of the word. The man told me as a kind of white cloud. I said: Zaman is Ame, it may be blank as I was. Nebula that some of what we dropped the rest. Perhaps in his Achtakkakan. Kmishqip says: Faraj of distress, is hopes to get as far as you Almishqip, giving effect to it. And sometimes it Baltsahev also said poorly people face: I saw Berguiv stolen, and the ashes of the summit in person, so I almost died. I told him: you get moody for the theft was as I said.
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XII
The reverse, of Kallowes Mitwalli, or whoever is in the intensity: the disappearance, as reflected in Zeul. The Star: maddening. The AED: are generating. The Quba: Keep. As the man said to me: signed two Vohrgaha honey, I told him: Bsa damaged the trail. As another said: I like to eat meat from the wine, and I are very hungry, so I said to him: The erosion of Bethlehem need incubation. As another said: I saw if I was in the coat in place for swimming, I said to him: Perhaps the Jub imprisonment. As another: if I bought Bucket, I said to him: Read children. It was all as I said. All praise to Allah. On this ceiling. Seed said: we have derivation of the first floor that we have in this reversal of the last chapter by writing to the first floor. The man said to me: if I saw a piece of Leaf Leaf has bloodied hands palms, I said to him: you are afraid of the elephant. What few had even beaten almost decimating the elephant blow it
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Chapter XIII
The reverse hidden (). The sea. Indicates the fire, and fire: demonstrate to the sea. And cupping: writing, writing: Hjamp. The buyer: the seller and the seller: the buyer. For this to be a human if the income of Fire: perhaps swimming in the sea, the burned: the sinking, walked on the Way: behind the boat. The man said to me: if I saw two draws sea water, I told him: fear the fires. So as I said. And another felt like Ihtjm, I said to him: write written for money. As another said: I like to write physical, so I said: Tanjm. Was also mentioned. The buyer: The seller and the seller: the buyer, what is left of his hand, and entered it. Because Ahadjam holding in his fingers and make it and keep the blood lines are Kalmdad Vocbh the writer, so each and every one of them serves as the other. It is reflected in the government, which is hidden a few people use it, but for most it is not known. Vavhm that, God Almighty.
Chapter XIV
The view from the head of craft, or some promised him through to him, or Khalth: I need him, or like it, is to be reduced. Like someone who believes that he jurist, or the jurisprudence of the book: Perhaps you know, or I need an advisory opinion, or government, or a marriage. Ktabib and, for the patient: the well-being, and the recuperative: disease, which he needs a doctor And another felt that I Hdidp land to build Kalske: or farmers became, and benefited from seed, he said: As known to do, including the manufacturer of workmanship and are equipped mentioned sign him, she indicates the presence of that incident in a dream to happen to me, that was not in need of VigilanceIf the manufacturer is preparing or workmanship Bcrtha Maliha del consequence of good, but it felt like the need of vigilance shown Mradh reached on the pace and magnitude of the disappearance, although several manufacturers or rosy del delay due to lack of necessary good in like this. And Allaah knows best
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