Seeing “slaughtering bush meat”
in your dream

• Slaughtering a woman: The dreamer will have sex with her.

• Slaughtering a female animal: The dreamer will make love to a woman and deflower a virgin.

• Slaughtering a male animal by attacking it from behind: The dreamer will sodomize such an animal.

• Slaughtering a young boy and grilling him: The dreamer will be unfair to that boy and slander him, provided the boy is old enough to be the one meant in the dream; otherwise the dream applies to his parents. If the boy turns out half-grilled, the accusations will be false.

The unknown butcher symbolizes the Angel of Death or a swordsman. The known one is whoever is fair in distributing his wealth to his children and other heirs.
Usually, dreaming of a butcher is a harbinger of hardships, save in two cases: If the dreamer is indebted it means that his debts will be settled, and if he is chained he will be delivered.

• A butcher slaughtering a beast whose meat is prohibited: A reference to an unjust person who does not heed God’s injunctions.

• Distributing meat: The dreamer is slandering or backbiting.

• Distributing beef to one’s relatives: The dreamer will be good to them and allocate or bequeath his fortune fairly to them.

Seeing a dead ram in a dream means the death of such a great person. Dividing the meat of a ram in a dream means dividing the wealth of a great person after his death. Sacrificing a ram to eat and to distribute from its meat as a charity to poor and needy people in the dream means the release of a prisoner, his escape from capture, dispelling distress and worries, payment of one's debts, attending the annual pilgrimage to Allah's House in Mecca, or recovering from an illness. Slaughtering and skinning a ram then hanging it in a dream means stripping one's enemy from his money and wealth.

• Slaughtering a ram without knowing why, but by observing the Islamic slaughtering rites: Will unexpectedly triumph over someone or testify truthfully against him. If the Muslim rituals are not observed, it means that the dreamer will kill, torture, or commit an injustice.

• Slaughtering a lamb not for eating: One of the children of the dreamer or one of his other relatives will die.

• Being sexually assaulted by a ram: Will be harmed by the enemy, especially if it had also tossed the dreamer with its horns—in which case it would mean insult and injury.

• Carrying a ram on one’s back: Will carry or wear something belonging to an honest person.

• Killing without slaughtering: The one seen killed in the dream will benefit from his assailant.

• Killing by slaughtering with a knife or a sword: The killer will commit an injustice toward the victim or will compel or incite the latter to disobey God.

• A woman dreaming of killing her husband with the help of friends: She is inciting him to commit a sin.

(Meat) In a dream, a steak represents an unavoidable evil happening, or it could represent a passing danger. Sliced meat in a dream also could mean happiness, quick earnings, fertility, or exposure of what man should keep personal and private. Seeing a butcher slicing meat in a dream could mean fights, evil, war, divisions in the society, or mixing the lawful with the unlawful, or usury, or fulfilling one's needs.

• Buying a ram: Will be needed by an honest man to be saved from disease or destruction.

• Becoming a ram: Will enjoy fame and fortune in the shadow of a rich and influential but honest man or will serve a king.

• Fighting a ram: Will be at loggerheads with a giant of a man. Whoever wins the combat will triumph in reality, because the two are of different kinds.49

• Riding a ram or eating cooked ram meat: Fertility and abundance. In dreams, fat meat is a better symbol than lean.

• Eating raw ram meat: Absence.

• A she-goat talking to the dreamer: Fertility and welfare.

• She-goat wool: Money.

• A man who fears for his life, who is in jail, who has been taken captive, or who is ill dreaming of slaughtering a ram: Will be safe, in view of the legend of the Prophet Ibrahim, who was preparing to slaughter his son to obey God’s orders when the Almighty sent a ram from the sky to substitute for the son and be sacrificed instead. A warrior dreaming of slaughtering a ram: Will emerge victorious.

• Rams slaughtered in a place: People will be slain there.

Putting a pot with meat and vegetables on the stove in a dream means imposing oneself on someone to receive a favor. If the meat is cooked in his dream, it means that one will greatly benefit from such a person, and his earnings will be lawful. If the meat does not cook, it means that whatever he earns through the other person will be unlawful. Stirring a pot in a dream means backbiting someone. If one eats directly from the pot in a dream, it represents money one could save otherwise beside other benefits.

• Seeing somebody’s pigeon  (penis): The dreamer is an adulterer.

• A pigeon evading the dreamer or flying away to no return:  (a) Divorce. 
(2) Wife will die.

• Cutting a pigeon’s wing:  (1) The dreamer will swear not to let his wife out. 
(2) Wife will deliver.  (3) Wife will get pregnant.

• Slaughtering a pigeon: Will deflower a girl.

• Eating dove meat: Will eat up a woman’s money.
The ringdove is a wild, dominating woman, if not impossible at least difficult to tame. She is a liar and not quite religious. It could also refer to a lying boy.
The turtledove is either a religious woman or a boy who makes an honest living.

(Meat; Sheep) To see a slaughtered and skinned sheep hanging in one's house in a dream means death in such a house. Herding sheep in a dream means presiding over people. Owning a herd of sheep or managing them in a dream means wealth and profits. Eating mutton meat in a dream means prosperity. (Also see Meat)

• Seeing an expert grilling veal:  (1) Marriage of a bachelor.  (2) Marriage ceremony. 
(3) New children.

• Seeing oneself grilling meat and selling it: Will collect money for the ruler through injustice and confiscation.

• Grilled meat: (1) A hint about what the future holds. (2) Coming relief.
(3) Earnings and prosperity, even if it is poultry meat or sausages. (4) Triumph over enemies.
(5) Will have more male children, especially if it was grilled veal. (6) A fat grilled mutton: Less money and earnings the hard way.
(8) Eating grilled mutton: The dreamer will nibble at his son’s earnings. (9) Eating underdone meat: Trouble from the son’s side. 
(10) Grilling cow meat:  (a) The end of fear.  (b) If the wife is pregnant, she should expect a son. 
(11) Eating beef: Will meet the ruler.  (12) Eating grilled veal: Earnings and fertility. 
(13) Eating grilled kid  (baby goat): Will have a male child.  (14) Grilled camel meat: 
(a) Fear will disappear.  (b) A reference to a boy versed in literature and overcoming all obstacles. 
(c) If the meat is underdone, the boy will not be smart at his job.  (d) Joy and prosperity. 
(e) The marriage of a bachelor.  (f) Harmony and love.  (g) The return of a
traveller.  (h) The cutting of one’s bread  (end of livelihood). 
(i) Prison.  (j) Complications.  (k) The splitting up of families. 
(l) Fevers.  (15) Seeing a grilled part of a camel talking to you: A
favourable turn of events and escape from peril.

• One Aqiq stone: (1) Return of an absent one. (2) Recovery of a sick person.
(3) The freeing of a prisoner. (4) More faith and the abiding by the Holy Prophet’s Tradition.

• One bead: A friend who has nobody to support him.

• Many beads: Illicit gains.

• Dreaming of Aqiq and of doing, at the same time, something prohibited, such as slaughtering a pig or presenting people with pork or dead meat while aware of the sinful character of such an act: The dreamer is ungrateful to his parents and to God, in view of the resemblance of the word Aqiq to oqooq, which in Arabic conveys that meaning of ingratitude.

• Being given Aqiq: Will follow the example of the donor. Losing it means the reverse. Owning plenty of
aqiq: Money and general welfare, as much as was seen.

• Drinking from a container made of aqiq: Will have a child who will become honest and prestigious and will never be short of money.

Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars

• 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.

If one is killed in a dream, it means longevity and that he will acquire a great wealth from the one who kills him in the dream. If one kills someone without slaughtering him in a dream, it means that the victim will benefit greatly from his assailant. Slaughtering in a dream means injustice. Killing someone in a dream also means relief from depression, grief, affliction and sorrow. Killing oneself in a dream also means recognition of the value of lost benefits. If one is murdered in a dream and did not know who killed him, it indicates his failure to fulfill his religious duties. If one recognizes his murderer in the dream, then it means triumph over one's enemy.

• A sick person dreaming of making a sacrifice: The dreamer will pass away or, on the contrary, will recover.

• Distributing sacrificial sheep meat: Worries will be over and the dreamer will be
honoured and dignified.

• Stealing sacrificial meat: The dreamer is lying to God.

If one receives or holds a falcon in a dream, it means that he will bear a son who will become a very important person of his time. If one happens to be a politician, it means that he will gain greater advancements in his life. If the falcon flies away in the dream, it means that one will lose his seat but retain his fame. If one catches few feathers of a falcon in a dream, it means that some power will remain in his hand and serve his interests. Slaughtering a falcon in a dream means the death of a king or a ruler. Eating falcon's meat in a dream means a financial endowment given by a ruler. If one kills a falcon inside his house in a dream, it means that he will capture a thief. If a falcon flies away from under one's chair in a dream, it means that he will walk in the company of a person whose earnings are unlawful. (Also see Indian falcon; Sakr)

• Slaughtering a peahen: The death of such a foreign lady; eating its meat means that the dreamer will inherit from her or will strike it rich through an alien woman.

• A peacock: A foreign king. Befriending it means that the dreamer will make friends with such a monarch.

• Catching and owning a peacock: The dreamer will have his way with or even dominate a foreign king.

• Subduing a peahen: Will have money and children.

• Finding peahen eggs: Will have a male child.

• Plucking some feathers from a peahen: Will obtain money from a woman or because of her. In case the dreamer also seizes some of its eggs, he will possess money through the offspring of such a woman.

• Bringing together a peacock and a pigeon: The dreamer is a pimp.

In a dream, a lobster represents a strong and a perfidious person who is untouchable, difficult to deal with and who is difficult to associate with, or who requires delicate handling. Eating lobster meat in a dream represents earnings from a distant land. Eating his meat also may mean earning unlawful money.

Eating a hoopoe in a dream means receiving news from the governor, or hosting a traveller. A hoopoe in a dream also represents the king's advisor, the court's seer, an astrologer, a writer, a scribe, or a critic. Holding a hoopoe in one's hand in a dream means glad tidings, or profits from a business in another market or town. Owning a hoopoe in a dream means having influence over someone in authority, or it could represent a writer, or a perspicacious person but who has no religious commitment. Slaughtering a hoopoe in a dream means getting hold of such person. Owning a female hoopoe in a dream means getting married. Slaughtering a female hoopoe in a dream means deflowering a young girl.