Seeing “dead friend pain”
in your dream

(Mourning; Wailing; Yowling) Lamenting and desiring something in a dream connotes evil. Lamentation in a dream also represents a preacher or it could represent a putrid odor that comes from opening the door of a filthy lavatory. Lamentation in a dream also represents dogs yowling, drum beating, the ringing sound of cymbals, or it could mean a wedding. Sitting in a place where people are lamenting and mourning their dead in a dream means that an ominous evil may take place in that locality, or perhaps it could mean separation between families and friends.

• Eating one’s own flesh: Abundance and tremendous power are in store.

• Eating the flesh of a tortured person  (crucified, hung, et cetera): Will obtain money from a wanted individual. It could also mean redemption and/or vengeance.

• Eating the flesh of one’s enemy: Will triumph over him.

• Eating the flesh of a dead person: Will speak ill of the dead, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that says: “O ye who believe! Shun much suspicion; for lo! some suspicion is a sin. And spy not, neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? …” 
(“Al-Hujurat” [The Private Apartments], verse 12.)

• Seeing a polytheistic cemetery:  (1) Worries, sorrow, fear, and unhappiness. 
(2) Shaky religious faith.  (3) A reference to heretic places and solitary confinement.

• A sick person dreaming of entering a cemetery: Will die from his ailment and end up there, especially if he had built a house in it in the dream.

• Entering a cemetery with awe, crying and reading or reciting the Holy Book or praying in the direction of
Mecca (Makkah): Will mix with benefactors, be well noted and versed in religion, and will benefit from all that he sees or hears.

• Entering a cemetery uncovered, laughing, urinating on the tombs, or walking with the dead: Will be involved with evil, debauched, and atheistic people and select one’s friends on this basis.

Seeing him (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream also means that one may acquire knowledge about herbal medicine. If one sees him laying dead on his bed in a dream, it means that the caliph, an army commander, a leader, or a man of knowledge will die in that locality and whose death will remain undetected, or undisclosed for sometime. Seeing him (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream also means increase in one's travels, supremacy over one's enemy and subjugation of one's friends and foes to his orders should he qualify. Seeing him (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream also denotes riches, sovereignty, distant but fast travels and receiving blessings, peace and protection. (Also see Solomon's ring)

• Seeing a dead person reading or reciting “Ayat Al Rahma” or verses referring to God’s compassion and mercy: The dead person is enjoying God’s mercy.

• Seeing a dead person reading or reciting verses alluding to God’s punishment: He is tortured by God.

• Verses implying a warning: Beware of committing sins.

• Verses referring to good tidings: Welfare is ahead.

• Dreaming that you are reading verses about the tortures God is reserving for the unbelievers and stumbling over one of them 
(being unable to read it): Joy.

• Driving one’s wife to another man to have him marry her concurrently: Reduced power or business losses.

• Conversely, wedding one’s wife to another man and bringing the latter to her doorstep: Business gains.

• Seeing a sick man getting married without a woman  (in the dream): The patient will die peacefully.

• Marrying a prohibited relative: The dreamer will prevail over his family.

• Marrying and penetrating a dead woman: The revival of a dead matter. But if the dreamer had neither penetrated nor even had intercourse with her, success in that matter would be shaky.

• Having an incestuous marriage with the dead: The dreamer will resume his duties towards his parents and dependents. 
(Also see Incest.)

• Seeing a cemetery:  (1) Fear for a person who feels safe and vice versa. 
(2) Prayers and aspirations.  (3) Repentance.  (4) A reference to the Hereafter, as a cemetery is the gateway to it; to the asylum; to asceticism; to weeping; to preaching; to death, since a cemetery is the house of death; and to atheist and heretic places or the dwelling of aliens in a Muslim country, since a cemetery houses the dead and death, according to the rules of interpretation, means religious corruption. Likewise, a cemetery could refer to those who indulge in luxury; brothels; bars where drunkards lie like the dead; the homes of those who fail to pray and remember God or do any good; and prison, for the dead is locked in his grave like the prisoner in his cell.

• Dreaming of being wrapped in a shroud like the dead, except for the head and feet, which remain uncovered: Religious corruption or simply things will go wrong.

• Weaving a shroud for a dead person: The dreamer will do something good in memory of the deceased or in
favour of his offspring as much as the winding sheet was big, beautiful, or valuable.

• Weaving a shroud for a living person known to the dreamer: Hardships and trouble for the latter.

• Weaving a shroud for a person dreamed of as unknown but alive: Good augury.

• Snatching a shroud from a dead person whom the dreamer used to know: The dreamer will follow the example of that late person.

• Jumping to cross a river, a pit, or a well, et cetera, and succeeding: A change for the better and will be saved from some evil and reach the safe shore very quickly.

• Jumping but staying late in that jump till withering away: Will die.

• The dead jumping out of their graves and returning to their homes:  (1) Prisoners will be released. 
(2) Plants will grow again after they were dead in that place.

The embrace symbolizes:  (1) Long life.  (2) Love and cordiality. 
(3) Good words.  (4) Travel.  (5) The return of an absent one. 
(6) The end of worries.  (7) Sex.

• Embracing a dead person: Will have a long life.

• A dead person holding the dreamer tight and inescapably to defeat and humiliate him: Will die.

Soon after that, I visited my father, and my friend proudly reminded me of his interpretation. Later on, I travelled away from home. When I returned to my town, I passed by a graveyard. At the gate stood a woman who was guarding that cemetery and whose eye was bandaged with a blue piece of cloth. I knew her, so I stopped and asked her about the news. She said to me: 'May God grant you a long life. Your father has passed away.' Then she took me to his grave, and I fell on it, crying and wailing, exactly as I saw in my dream. Thus, my friend's interpretation did not come true, for he has no hand in it."

• Death of a relative: Will become less able.

• Death of a pregnant woman: Will give birth to a male child who will prove to be very beneficial and bring about a lot of joy.

• Death of an unknown woman:  (1) Worldly matters will run into a snag. 
(2) Drought.
Death of a friend:  (1) The dreamer will die.  (2) The dreamer will lose that friend.

• Death of an unknown old man: The dreamer’s endeavours will not bear any fruit.

• 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

• Seeing many date palms in a garden or a fertile land and taking their fruits: Will obtain money from honest and noble people.

• A dead person sitting on top of a tree or owning one:

• If the tree is big and beautiful, the dead man is in Paradise.

• If the tree seen in the dream is ugly and full of thorns or black and filthy, like the Zachum oil tree or the thorn tree, he is being tortured in Hell.

• Eating eggshells: The dreamer is a graverobber.

• Dreaming that wife has laid an egg: She will give birth to an atheist, in view of Quranic verses addressed to atheists and comprising examples of God’s might and miracles, such as: “… he bringeth forth the dead from the living” 
(“Al-Rum” [The Romans], verse 19.)

• Putting an egg under a hen that cracks to give way to chicks: A dead matter will be revived, and a pious son will be born to the dreamer or as many sons as there were chicks, in view of the Quranic expression in the same verse: “He bringeth forth the living from the dead….”

• Placing eggs under a cock, which is hatched to give chicks: A tutor will arrive for the young boys.

• Breaking an egg: Will deflower a virgin. If the dreamer fails to break it, he won’t be able to pierce the hymen.

All kinds of dogs refer to wicked persons.

• Taking a dog: Will befriend a servant and love him very much.


• Taking or befriending a dog: Deviation, work stoppage, and the squandering of money.

• Being bitten or scratched by one’s dog:  (1) Will encounter disaster sustain harm, and face hardships caused by a friend or a servant. 
(2) Will be harmed by one’s enemy as much as there was pain.  (3) The dreamer might fall ill.

• A dog tearing one’s clothes: A silly individual is backbiting you. If no barking was heard, it means that an enemy has silently laid a trap.

• A female dog  (or bitch):  (1) A proliferative woman keen on preserving her husband; 
(2) A mean woman of low origin whose folks are troublemakers.

• A puppy is a beloved son. If he is white, it means the boy is a genuine worshiper. If black, he will prevail over his folk. In other interpretations: A puppy is the waif of a profligate or the product of adultery that the dreamer will find and raise.

(Friend; Responsibility; Support) Riding over the shoulders of one's enemy in a dream means committing a wrongdoing or a shameful act against someone. If there is no enmity between the two, and if one sees himself riding over the shoulders of his friend in a dream, it means that he will earn something from him. Carrying someone over one's shoulders in a dream means being indebted to him. Carrying a hypocrite over one's shoulders in a dream could mean that one may work at a lumberyard, or deliver wood for living.

• Marrying a resuscitated woman, abstaining from touching her, but settling in her house: Will die.

• 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 the others not: A bloodbath will take place in that spot or country.

• A pharaoh resuscitating and ruling a country: Tyranny or corruption will prevail and the people’s condition will deteriorate.

• The teeth getting longer and bigger: A dispute or rivalry in the dreamer’s house between members of his family.

• Someone whose teeth are black, eroded, and twisted dreaming that they have fallen: Will overcome all kinds of hardships.

• Dreaming of brushing or cleaning one’s teeth with a piece of wood  (Arabic: miswak) as the Holy Prophet used to do: The dreamer is supporting his parents and good to his relatives.

• Brushing one’s teeth with something unclean: The dreamer is spending dirty money beyond his will.

• Having pain in one tooth or a molar: The dreamer will hear something bad from the relative whom that tooth represents inasmuch as the pain was severe.

• A horseman dreaming of flying: Good horsemanship.

• Dreaming of flying on a stretcher, a litter, a bed, or the like:  (1) Legs will be affected by a severe ailment. 
(2) Will become very ill.  (3) Will die.

• A dead person flying: Will escape danger.

• A bier flying and people with it:  (1) A chief or a scholar will die without anybody knowing about it. 
(2) A great man will die in a foreign land, during a pilgrimage, or in a battle for the sake of Allah 
(Jihad).  (3) If the dead man on the bier is identified, it means that man in particular.