Seeing “riding horse and dreaming climbing horse”
in your dream

• A person who is not a born orator dreaming of delivering a speech or a sermon during the pilgrimage season:
His homonym or opposite number will do so.
People will praise the dreamer for his righteousness.

• Dreaming of having successfully completed a sermon and prayer service and that people are pleased with what they have heard: The dreamer will become an obeyed ruler. If the speech or the service is not completed, such an aspiration will not be fulfilled and the dreamer will be isolated.

The falcon symbolizes a king. It also refers to a thief that nobody can stop and who surmounts all barriers.

• A slaughtered falcon: Death of a king.

• Eating falcon meat: Money from the king or any supreme authority.

• A person eligible to become a ruler dreaming of a falcon standing obediently on his hand: Will become an unjust ruler.

• A commoner dreaming of a docile falcon standing on his hand: Joy and fame.

• Dreaming of emerging from sexual intercourse without washing:  (1) Will have a boy. 
(2) Will earn money.

• Being soiled by an impure act:  (1) Will err or be in a quandary. 
(2) Will travel to no avail.
In case the subject has dreamed that he had washed perfectly well after such an act, the reverse would happen.

• Being soiled by any animal: Money and blessings.

• Dreaming that one has not washed after sex: Will travel for a purpose that will not be achieved. The reverse is also true.

• Dreaming of having become a wizard: The dreamer will never, ever succeed in anything, in view of the Quranic verse: “… Lo! that which they have made is but a wizard’s artifice, and a wizard shall not be successful to whatever point 
(of skill) he may attain.”  (“Ta-Ha,” verse 69.)

• Dreaming that one is bewitched or under an evil spell: Plots and vexations, especially if the magician is a genie.

• Practicing witchcraft or being the victim of sorcery: The dreamer will bring about the separation of a couple through calumny and criminal acts.

• Trying sorcery without achieving success: The dreamer is trying to vex somebody, but will fail. The reverse is also true.

In a dream, the sound of a crowd means money beside other benefits. The bleating of sheep in a dream means distress and fear. The neigh of horses in a dream means might and honor. The barking of a dog in a dream means vain talk and meddling in others business. The sound of a lynx in a dream means pampering oneself and wantonness. The cooing of pigeons in a dream means crying, sorrows or marriage. The chirp of swallows in a dream means beneficial words. The croaking of frogs in a dream means beatings or death. The sound of bells and the hissing of snakes in a dream represents a fight, an argument, a warning, or a war. The braying of donkeys in a dream means cursing in the darkness.

• A woman dreaming that a man other than her husband has cut her hair: That man is inviting her husband to have a relationship with another woman to exact revenge from her, and she will have an argument with that enemy.

• Seeing a woman’s tress or plaits of hair cut: She will never have a child.

• Cutting one’s own hair without help: Will pay back debts.
The beautiful fringe symbolizes money and prosperity. A man dreaming of a beautiful fringe will marry a woman as beautiful as the fringe.

• Seeing numerous gates of Heaven: A reference to usury.

• Some flies, bees, birds, et cetera, coming from the gates of Heaven: Diluvial rain, in view of the Quranic verse: “Then opened We the gates of Heaven with pouring water.” 
(“Al-Qamar” [The Moon], verse 11.)

• Being close to the sky: The dreamer is close to God or, if his ambitions are not so great, to his superior and his prayers will be heard.

• Climbing to the sky and entering Heaven: The dreamer will die as a martyr.

• A person facing hardships or missing someone dreaming of a dove flying to him or landing on him: Good augury.

• A sick person dreaming of a pigeon landing on his head: An allusion to the Angel of Death, especially if it is a turtledove and if it wails.

• Having pigeons: The dreamer has women and slaves or servants on whom he does not spend much.

• Owning innumerable pigeons: Welfare and benefits.

• Spreading pigeon fodder and calling the doves to eat from it: The dreamer is a pimp 
(perhaps because, in Arabic, the word pigeon is a homonym of penis).

• Frolicking with one’s wife and enjoying it: The dreamer is a loving husband. The reverse is also true.

• Mutual touching with an illegitimate partner: Will do something bad.

• Exchanging touches with a beloved person: Joy.

• Touching someone with a sexual desire: Testing that person, because touching is related to one of the five senses.

• Dreaming of having ejaculated after an exchange of touches: Desires will be fulfilled.

• Waking up in a sperm pond after dreaming of an impassioned exchange of touches: A satanic dream that makes it incumbent upon the dreamer to wash thoroughly.

The same interpretation of horses colours should apply to cows, which, as mentioned, refer to women or years.

• Seeing in one’s house a cow sucking the milk of her own calf: A woman is trading in her own daughter.

• A man slave milking his master’s cow: Will marry the latter’s daughter.

• Being scratched by a cow or a bull: Will be ill inasmuch as the scratch was severe.

• A cow or a bull raping the dreamer: Will experience hardships and punishment and might even get killed.

• Falling on a cow’s back: Luck will change during the year.

• An ox falling on the dreamer: Will die during that year.

• Having a dispute with a cow: Controversy with a hot-tempered and impolite woman.

• Being bitten or kicked by a cow: Children will betray their father.

• Beating a cow or an ox with a stick or biting either one: The dreamer has plenty of sins and should seek God’s forgiveness.

• Vulture meat: Money and influence.
The Egyptian vulture, also called pharaoh’s chicken, is an impulsive individual. It refers as well to bad people, bastards, or those who dwell in the cemeteries. Likewise, it alludes to the dead’s washhouse.

• Dreaming of an Egyptian vulture during daytime: Will be sick.

• A sick person dreaming of an Egyptian vulture: Will die.

• Capturing a pharaoh’s chicken: War and terrible bloodshed.

• Flocks of Egyptian vultures landing in a city: Mean and immoral soldiers will invade it.

In a dream, a mountain that stands high is alive, but a crumbling mountain which has turned into a pile of rocks is dead. If a person sees himself climbing an erect mountain, eating from its plants and drinking from its water, and if he qualifies to govern, it means that he will be appointed to a governing post under the auspices of a stringent ruler, though his subjects do receive benefits from his government. The size of benefits the governor will acquire is equal to the quantity of food and the measure of water he drinks from it in his dream.

• A ladder placed on the ground: Sickness.

• A standing ladder: Good health.

• Going downstairs:  (1) If the dreamer is on a journey, he will return. 
(2) If the dreamer is a chief, he will step down.  (3) If the dreamer is riding, he will continue on foot. 
(4) If the dreamer’s wife is ill, she will die.

• A woman dreaming that her hands are tattooed: She will use her makeup to achieve what is right. If the tattoo was made of mud, it means that she uses her rosary quite often. If the drawings on her hands get mixed up, harm will befall her children.

• A woman seeing her hand dyed or tattooed with gold:  (1) She is giving her money to her husband. 
(2) Her husband will bring her joy.

• A man dreaming that his two legs are dyed and tattooed: His parents will die.

• A woman seeing her legs dyed and tattooed: Her husband will die.

Coming near a staircase in a dream also means attaining success and a growing piety. Each step represents a different station. Climbing a staircase in a dream also represents the dangers one may have to cross. Seeing a staircase with five steps in a dream represents the five time prayers, or the pulpit where the Imam stands to deliver his Friday sermon. That is why some interpreters qualify the staircase in one's dream as glad tidings, good news, prayers, charity, alms giving, fasting, or a pilgrimage. Allah knows best.

A blond workhorse in a dream means sad news. A workhorse in a dream also means a conflict, a foreigner, a wife, a husband or a servant. A gray workhorse in a dream represents a high rank, and a black workhorse means prosperity. (Also see Horse)

(Attire) In a dream, a woman's veil represents her religion. For a woman, wearing a veil in a dream means marriage, prosperity, beauty. Wearing a black veil in a dream means marrying a poor man. If a man sees himself wearing a veil in a dream, it means that he will commit adultery with his female servant. (Also see Apparel; Climbing a mountain; Closet; Khimar; Protection; Uncertainty; Wife; Yashmak)

• A woman giving birth to a child from her mouth: Will die and her spirit will come out from her mouth.

• A man dreaming that he has given birth to a baby boy:  (1) Will get ill. 
(2) Will be delivered from a certain worry.  (3) Will get rid of a mean woman.

• A man dreaming that he has given birth to a baby girl:  (1) Relief from all hardships. 
(2) Someone from the dreamer’s lineage will prevail over his folk.  (3) Will hear some great news.

• A woman delivering a cat from her vagina: She will give birth to a thief.

• A woman giving birth to an eagle: Will have an illustrious son, if the lady lives comfortably. If she is poor, she will give birth to a soldier.

• A mountain taking off and hovering over people’s heads: The king will terrorize his subjects as, says Ibn
Siren, this is what happened to the children of Israel when God lifted the mountain and let it glide over them to terrorize them or deter them from disobedience.

• Mountains exploding or being shattered: A harbinger of war and schisms in which flocks of people will perish, as this is one of the signs of the end of the world.

• Climbing on a mountain and drinking water from its springs: Will be given a province or a high post, if eligible, or achieve gains, if in business.

• Carrying a mountain and finding it too heavy: Will carry the belongings or look after the interest of a huge man or a giant of a man.

The rhinoceros is a great king whom nobody likes to meet.

• Calling a rhinoceros that responds by coming to the dreamer: The latter will obtain illicit money from the supreme chief.

• Riding a rhinoceros: The dreamer will have his way with a king.