Seeing “weak nails”
in your dream

they symbolise weak people of little or no standing in society.

It represents a timid and weak thief who has no friends and helpers.

(Insect) In a dream, a fly represents a weak, lowly and a slanderous person. If he ever benefits anyone, it will be someone of his own kind. Eating flies in a dream means earning loathsome money. Seeing flies ruminating inside one's stomach in a dream means earning money from a loathsome and a despicable man. Seeing flies inside one's body in a dream means mixing with loathsome people. Whatever profits one may gain through them will not last. A large size fly in a dream represents a great enemy who will bring harm to the people and to the economy of the land. Flies flying over one's head in a dream represent a weak enemy who is desiring to triumph over him.

Seeing an earthworm in a dream means facing a weak enemy. (Also see Rainworm)

Its reader will feed the poor, love the orphans and show kindness to the weak.

Seeing dispersed cranes flying in a dream means profits and benefits for a traveller, marriage, or a son. Riding on a crane in a dream means becoming poor. Owning a large flock of cranes in a dream means presiding over people and becoming rich. Crane's meat and feathers in a dream means earning money from a poor or a weak person. Raising a flock of cranes in a dream also means presiding over poor people. Fighting with a crane in a dream means fighting with a poor and a weak person. Hearing the cry of a crane in a dream means dispelling distress and worries.

(Particle; Speck) In a dream, it means extensive wealth, an enemy who has no honor, a weak opponent, a selfish person, or someone not worth mentioning.

The starling symbolizes a person who travels quite often, because that bird never falls. It could also refer to a weak, patient, or ascetic individual who makes a living by honest means.

• Roaming about amid open graves: Will enter the homes of heretics or visit the jails.

• Going to a grave and digging the earth with one’s nails or trying to unearth the dead: Will probe the life of the dead dwelling in that grave to follow his pattern.

• Finding a dead person alive in his grave: Will become wise and pious and achieve orderly gains.

• Going to a graveyard to unearth the dead and finding some of them alive and others not: Terrible deaths will occur in that spot or country.

• Finding deadly reptiles or insects in a grave or flames coming out of it: 
(1) The dreamer is doing abominable things.  (2) The dead person in that grave was a heretic.

This bird symbolizes a poor, weak, and incapable stranger or sociable people who like to share and participate. It augurs well for
travellers and anyone who wishes to get married or have a boy.

• Seeing a crane:  (1) Will embark on a long journey.  (2) Will return safe and sound to one’s family from a journey.

If a person dreams that he has drawn water from the well and given it to people to drink, it means he will be a means of providing livelihood to orphans, the weak and poor. It also means he will live a life of piety and virtue. Perhaps his wealth may become a means of people proceeding for Hajj.

The fly is a weak and mean person who stabs one in the back. Many flies symbolizes a harmful enemy.

• Eating flies: Dirty money or unholy gains.

• A fly entering the dreamer’s body: Will mix with mean and criminal parties and gain dirty money, which will not last.

• A traveller dreaming that flies have landed on his head: Should fear highwaymen who could intercept and rob him, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that reads as follows: “… And if the fly took something from them, they could not rescue it from it. So weak are 
(both) the seeker and the sought!”  (“Al-Hajj” [The Pilgrimage], verse 73.)

• A fly landing on something belonging to the dreamer: Hide your money from eventual thieves.

• Killing a fly: Rest of mind and a healthy body.

(Any small, blood sucking insect.) Seeing a bug in a dream means facing a weak enemy. If a small bug enters one's body in a dream, it means that a poor person will visit him to receive some mental satisfaction or to solicit a small financial support. (Also see Flea)

(Corrosion; Oxidize; Smut) In a dream, rust or corrosion represents an ostentatious and an affectatious person who displays piety and devotion during the day and contempt during the darkness of the night. It also could represent a thief, a highway robber, or a weak, tardy and negligent person, or a person who hoards money and likes to live alone.

The spider is among the metamorphosed  (human beings turned into animals as a result of a curse, according to religious belief). It symbolizes a damned and detestable woman who abandons her husband’s bed in
favour of others.

• Seeing a spider: Will meet a weak but showy and vexatious man, a nouveau riche, or newly rich, person.

• Seeing a cobweb: An association with an irreligious woman.

• One’s eye becoming dim: The dreamer is eyeing a friendly woman indecently.

• Having weak eyesight:  (1) The dreamer needs people’s help and is going adrift. 
(2) The dreamer’s children will be ill.

• The eyes falling on one’s knees: Death of a brother and a son or any two other dear persons.

• Seeing a slave girl  (the word in Arabic meaning “A running one”) or a couple of eyes flying rapidly in the sky: Will make money from business or a craft.

Many ants symbolize soldiers, progeny, money, or long life. Conversely, they also allude to a weak and careful person. Seen on a bed, they represent children.

• Seeing an ant or ants is a reference to: (1) The dreamer himself. (2) Relatives.
(3) Death of a patient.

• Ants coming out of their hole: Trouble and worries.

• Understanding the language of the ants: Domination or a high post, in view of the story of the prophet and king Solomon 
(Peace be upon him).

• Seeing hunting dogs entering a city: Unemployment.

• Seeing hunting dogs returning from an expedition:  (1) Unemployment. 
(2) The end of fear.

• A sheepdog:  (1) The dreamer will obtain certain benefits from the king or chief. 
(2) A good neighbour who is keen on preserving your interests as much as he does his own.

• Dogs of the type that guard houses: Man’s wife and property are being safeguarded. If those dogs look weak, it means sickness and losses.

According to Ibn Siren, it is better to wake up after swimming one’s way to safety than to regain consciousness while still struggling in the water.

• Swimming: Will challenge an opponent and defeat him.

• A ruler dreaming that he wishes to swim in the sea but the latter is agitated: He will fight another chief. If he crosses the sea by swimming 
(in the dream), he will defeat his opponent.

• A scholar swimming in the sea: Will acquire more learning.

• Swimming on the shore: Will go to jail and remain there inasmuch as the swimming was easy or difficult or strong or weak.