Seeing “unable rip letter”
in your dream

If a person sees his donkey as weak, unable to walk or carrying a burden or walk uphill it means he will become unprosperous.

An embroiderer in a dream represents a bright and an intelligent person, a trickster or someone who embellishes his words and exaggerates his explanations, or he could represent a writer, a man of letter, a refined person, a poet or a fine singer. (Also see Monogram)

• Crawling on one’s belly: Will be handicapped and compelled to spend all savings owing to unemployment.

• A person dreaming of being unable to crawl anymore after stomach has been skinned and asking people to carry him: Will become poor and ask people for alms.

• The one who grills meat:  (1) A tutor or educator of young princes, free children, and young girls or female slaves. He teaches them a profession or a craft. 
(2) A surgeon.  (3) A troublemaker and an antagonist.  (4) A torturer using wooden, iron, and other infernal devices. 
(5) A looter.  (6) One who takes people’s lives.  (7) The one who captures girls and women as war booty.

• Going to the cook of grilled meat to buy a well-done steak or the like: The dreamer will hand over his son to a tutor to teach and educate him.

• Buying grilled meat for a sum of money: Will hire a boy or a girl brought up by a man of letters or a shrewd merchant, who will obey and act according to the dreamer’s will.

The swallow or swift, which the Arabs literally call paradise bird, is a blessed man or a blessed woman belonging to someone. It could also refer to a young boy who reads the Holy Quran properly. Other interpretations include a devout individual who fears God and is nice to others, a man of letters, or a person who comes to others  rescue.
It is a good augury for future actions, especially for the planting of trees.

• Seeing swallows in one’s house or owning plenty of them: Honest money.

• Seeing swallows leaving one’s home: Relatives will depart.

• Seizing a swallow: Illegal money.

• Turning into a swallow: Robbers will break into the dreamer’s house.

If one dreams of disappearing from the sight of the enemy, one will defeat that enemy. If the latter uncovers the dreamer, he will bring him a calamity. If the dreamer trembles and feels unable to hold himself together, he should expect nothing but weakness and worries.

• Being impotent: The dreamer is a hermit, and no one recalls him anymore.

• No longer being impotent: Will become powerful and famous.

• Marrying a woman or buying a slave and being unable to sleep with her because of such impotence: The dreamer is trading without capital.

A hump in a dream represents a condition that will make one a celebrity, or it could represent a debt one is unable to pay. This is because one's back is the point that carries his burdens. A hump in a dream also may be interpreted as a burden, longevity, or bearing children. (Also see Hunchback)

• Feeling thirsty in front of a river, a spring, or a well, but being unable to reach the water or drink from it: Things will not go the way you want.

• Drinking cold water: Honest gains.

• Drinking from a powerful irrigation canal: Sound religious faith and righteousness.

In a dream, a perfume salesman represents a gnostic, an ascetic, a devout worshiper, or a man of letters. Anyone who sits with him will carry some fragrance of his perfumes, or learn about an etiquette, adopt good manners, learn something about his arts, enjoy a happy surrounding, or earn praises, except if the perfume salesman is burning incense, for the smoke that emanates from burning incense in a dream denotes guarded praises. A perfume salesman in a dream also represents a beautician. Seeing him in a dream also means knowledge, guidance, earning praises or receiving a commendation. (Also see Amber; Musk; Perfume)

In a dream, arrows mean messages, a messenger, writings, victory over one's enemy. If a woman sees her husband's arrows in their quiver in a dream, it means that her husband has turned away from her. Arrows in a dream also are an indicator or a guide. Seeing an arrow outside its quiver, means failure to perform one's duty or inability to deliver one's message. Shooting arrows in a dream means writing letters. If one shoots an arrow but fails to hit his target in the dream, it means that he will send a messenger to do something and his messenger will fail to deliver. If one sees a woman shooting him with an arrow in a dream, it means that she is showing kindness toward him and consequently he may fall in love with her, or he may marry her.

• Trying to read the Torah, but being unable to: Will become a fatalist or a
predestination.

• A Muslim king  (or ruler) dreaming that he possesses a Torah: Will conquer his enemy’s territory or sign a peace treaty with him in the former’s
favour.

• A scholar dreaming that he possesses a Torah: Will acquire more knowledge and excel or will innovate, become heretical, and go astray with the whimsical ones.

• Dreaming that one’s eyes have been pierced: The dreamer will lose someone or something very dear.

• Seeing something white in or around the pupil of the eye or a kind of screen: Trouble, deep worries, losses, and loss of aspirations.

• An absent relative returning blind: The dreamer will die.

• Having “the black water”  (glaucoma) in the eyes and being unable to see anything: The dreamer is shameless because, says Ibn
Siren, the eye is the center of decency and shame.

• Falling from someone else’s donkey: Relations will be broken off with that person, his homonym, or his counterpart.

• Buying donkeys and paying the price in dirham's: Will benefit from people’s praise.

• Owning a blind donkey: The dreamer has wealth but is unable to locate it.
A she-ass symbolizes a mean woman, the wife, a servant, or the person’s business. Dreaming of seeing a she-ass means more money and less authority and prestige.

It is related that Al-Mustanjid Billah son of Al-Muqtafi saw during his father's life a dream in which an angel descended and wrote four times the Arabic letter 'H' in the palm of his hand. When Al-Mustanjid woke up, he told the dream to an interpreter who replied: "You will receive the Caliphate from your father in the year five hundred fifty-five, and already five months and five days have passed." Al-Mustanjid became the Caliph as foretold by the dream interpreter.

• Being lame or handicapped, unable to stand on one’s feet:  (1) The dreamer is not strong enough to press ahead with his demands. 
(2) The dreamer will be disappointed by those relatives whom the handicapped part of the body refers to.

• A lame person: The dreamer will get something incomplete.

• A lame old man: The dreamer’s endeavours are inadequate, or his friend is not what he thought him to be.

The mule with its saddle, reins, and other equipment is a beautiful woman of letters but of low origin. It might also symbolize a barren or childless woman. Every time she has a child, he will die.

• A gray mule: A beautiful woman.

• A green mule: A virtuous lady who will live long.

• Riding on a black mule: A rich and childless woman who wields tremendous power. 
(Paradoxically, the words black and master in Arabic are homonyms.)

• Riding someone else’s mule: Will flirt or sleep with someone else’s woman.

• Riding on a mule backward: A sinful woman.

• A mule with its pack saddle and necessary gear: A reference to travel.

• A talking mule or horse: Extraordinary welfare is ahead and people will talk about it.

• Owning a pregnant mule: You wish to increase your wealth.

• A mule having delivered: A wish will be fulfilled.

• Riding on a submissive mule above the load it is already carrying on its back: Good augury and righteousness or reform.

(Female sheep) In a dream, a ewe represents a woman, a wife or prosperity. Running after a ewe and finding oneself unable to keep-up or to catch it in a dream means chasing a woman and failing to seduce her. Milking a ewe in a dream means good profits for that year. Eating the meat of a ewe in a dream means inheriting a rich woman.

(Doubt) In a dream, uncertainty means heedlessness or being allured by Satan. Uncertainty and doubt about all religions in a dream represents adjuration and ingratitude. If a person who is concerned about religious explanations sees himself unable to recognize what faith he belongs to, or what direction to turn to in a dream, it represents doubt and lack of knowledge or certitude.

• Buying an ox: Will conceal the defaults of kind people and brothers by speaking in their
favour.

• Talking to a bull or being addressed by an ox: Hostility to a man.

• A bull falling on an individual or killing him: The death of that person.

• Being bitten by a bull: Some ailment will come.

• An ox mooing at the dreamer: Will embark on a long journey.

• A bull coming out of a small hole and trying to return to it unsuccessfully: A major statement made by a man who tries to withdraw it but is unable to.

• Bull skin: Blessings for the owner of the bull.