Radish • Dreaming of radish: (1) Lawful and blessed gains. (2) Will perform hajj (pilgrimage)—an interpretation that according to Ibn Siren, is a bit farfetched. • Picking or eating radish: Will do good but regret it later on. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Inflation Inflation in a dream means bread, rising prices, greed, taking advantage of the meek, and manipulating people's interests. Dream Interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Tree • Seeing an unknown tree in a house: A possible fight or quarrel, in view of a Quranic verse: “But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe [in truth] until they make thee judge of what is in dispute (Arabic: shagara) between them …” (“Al-Nisae” [Women], verse 65.) • Picking fruit from a tree while seated: Money will come without effort. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Sword • A person in dispute seeing a sword already drawn in his hand: Justice will be on the dreamer’s side. • Finding a sword and picking it up: The dreamer is demanding justice and will obtain it. • Being handed a sword: A reference to a woman, as it looks very beautiful and has very nefarious effects, according to Al-Nabulsi referring to Luqman in the holy scriptures. • A sword set aside: A reference to a powerful man. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Pollen Observing the florescence of trees in a dream means the rising of one's star and anticipation of benefits. Seeing a yellow spathe and not eating from it in a dream represents the anger of a landlord toward his ranchers. Pollen in a dream also means money or illness. Picking up spores of pollen in a dream also means the illness of one's wife that could lead to her death, or receiving a sizeable inheritance. Dream Interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Iron Iron symbolizes money, dignity, power, and triumph. However, • Eating iron with bread means harm and possible end of the dreamer’s livelihood. • Chewing iron means absence. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Damson • Eating immature or green damson: Will give alms or heal from a disease. • Eating yellow damson: Will obtain money but get ill. • Eating damson from a tree: Will befriend a wealthy but irreligious person. • Picking damson from a tree: Will marry an heiress. • Breaking a branch of a damson tree: (1) Will be ungrateful to a source of living and lose it. (2) Will abandon prayers and abstain from fasting. (3) Will squander someone’s money. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Honey Pure honey means recovery from a disease. • The sky raining honey: Good religion and blessings will prevail all over the place. • Eating honey: Will embrace or hug and kiss a beloved one. • Chewing honey: Will get married. • Eating bread and honey: Will make a living from a booty. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Tooth • Teeth falling and picking them up with one’s hand or beard: The dreamer’s children will break with him; no more children will be born, and if ever one is born he will not stay to be brought up by the dreamer. • All the teeth falling and disappearing from the dreamer’s sight: (1) His family or his household will die before him. (2) People of his generation or of the same age will die. • People chewing the dreamer’s flesh or biting him with their teeth: The dreamer should be modest, which he is not. • Teeth breaking: The dreamer will settle his debts, little by little. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Dates • Seeing a measure of dates: A booty. • Seeing scattered dates: The dreamer is planning a trip. • Picking a date from a palm tree during the right season: (1) Will marry a noble, rich, and blessed woman. (2) Will obtain money from generous and noble people without effort. (3) The dreamer’s farm will yield him good money. (4) Will acquire useful knowledge and benefit from it. If the date was picked in the wrong season, he would acquire such knowledge but not use it. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Cheese Cheese means easy money or money and comfort. But wet cheese is better than dry cheese. It also symbolizes a fertile year. Dry cheese refers to a journey. A piece of cheese is a whiff of money. Dreaming of eating cheese with bread predicts a sudden ailment. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Vinegar Vinegar symbolizes blessed money earned in a holy manner, without any show business. • Eating vinegar with bread: Long life. • Vinegar dregs: Tasteless, useless money from which not much benefit is derived. • A vinegar container: A slave or a maiden. • Drinking vinegar: The dreamer will be hostile to his household. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Tree • Seeing in a house an unknown tree of the type representing women: A fire will be lit in that house in view of a verse in the Holy Quran: “Who hath appointed for you fire from the green tree, and behold! ye kindle from it. (“Ya-Sin,” verse 80.) • Seeing an unknown tree in a house: A possible fight or quarrel, in view of a Quranic verse: “But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe [in truth] until they make thee judge of what is in dispute (Arabic: shagara) between them …” (“Al-Nisae” [Women], verse 65.) • Picking fruit from a tree while seated: Money will come without effort. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Salt Salt has controversial interpretations. Ibn Siren did not like dreams involving salt. Some say white salt represents asceticism coupled with welfare and blessings. Cooking salt means worries, trouble, and disease or money earned the hard way and bringing about many problems. • Finding salt: Hardships and a severe ailment. • Eating bread and salt: Contentment. • A saltbox: A pretty girl. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Locust If, on the contrary, people are seen, in the dream, catching and eating locusts while they look harmless, they are a harbinger of benefits, welfare, and abundance. Locusts seen in a container represent gold and silver coins. Locusts seen in any place without causing harm mean joy and happiness, in view of the story of the prophet Ayyoub (Job). However, locusts could also symbolize the baker who sells adulterated bread. The sky raining golden locusts means blessings and joy. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Almond The almond tree symbolizes a stranger or a strange person. Almond means money. Eating it means money will come from a dispute. Sweet almonds refer to the dreamer’s beautiful faith. Bitter almonds represent frank or truthful statements. • Picking almonds from a tree: Will obtain money from a miser. • Almond peel falling on the dreamer: Will obtain clothes. Conversely, dry peels mean wrath and disfavour. They could also mean that the dreamer will be reprimanded, in view of the harsh sound they produce. Sorrow is another possibility. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Paradise • Picking the fruits of Paradise to feed someone else: The dreamer is conveying his learning to somebody who benefits from it; but he himself doesn’t. • Throwing Paradise into Hell: The dreamer will sell a beautiful garden and consume its price. • Drinking from the waters of Al-Kawthar (Abundance), the heavenly fountain of unbounded grace and knowledge, mercy and goodness, truth and wisdom, spiritual power and insight, which was granted to the Muslim’s Holy Prophet and somehow to all men and women who are sincere devotees of God: Headship and victory over the enemy in view of the Quranic verses: “Lo! We have given thee Abundance; so pray unto thy Lord, and sacrifice.” (“Al-Kawthar” [Abundance], verses 1–2.) Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Angel • An angel entering the dreamer’s house: Beware of thieves. • An angel taking one’s weapon: Strength and bread will go and perhaps wife, too. • Angels assembling in one place and the dreamer being scared: Intrigue and strife will take place in that spot. • Seeing angels in a battlefield: Will triumph over enemies. • Angels kneeling or prostrating themselves before the dreamer: Desires will be fulfilled and the subject will rise in life. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Dates • Picking nice dates from a dry palm tree: (1) Will learn something useful from an unholy man. (2) If in trouble, relief will come. • Dates being picked for the dreamer: Money will come to the dreamer through dangerous people he will govern. A man said, “I dreamed that I found forty dates.” “You will receive forty lashes,” said the famous dream interpreter Ibn Siren. Sometime later, the same man came to Ibn Siren and told him he found forty dates at the gate of the sultan, to which Ibn Siren said that the man would receive one thousand dirham's. When asked about the contradiction, Ibn Siren said that the first dream was made when the season was over and trees were dry; as for the second, it took place when waters were irrigating the trees. And he was right, on both occasions. Dream Interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Pretzel (Bagel; Bread; Twist) Pretzels in a dream mean travels, hoarding money, evil, or having an argument. Eating a pretzel in a dream also means prescribing to a healthy diet. If someone who has no teeth receives a hard pretzel in his dream, it means distress, burdens and trouble. Eating a pretzel in a dream also means recurrence of good and bad experiences. Dream Interpreter: Ibn Sirin
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