• 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
Bier
• Being lifted, placed on a bier, and borne on men’s shoulders: Promotion, power, influence, and tyranny. Will ride on people’s necks and have as many followers as were seen carrying the dreamer in the dream.
• Seeing oneself on a bier without anybody carrying it: Will go to jail.
• A ruler, a chief, a merchant, or a manufacturer seeing himself on a bier rolling or gliding on the soil: Will board a ship.
• Carrying a bier: (1) If eligible, will govern a province as prominent as the people marching in the funeral procession.
(2) Illicit gains. (3) Will intercede in favour of a religiously corrupt person.
• A bier flying and people holding to it: (1) A chief or a scholar will die without anybody knowing about it.
(2) A great man will die in foreign land, during the pilgrimage or in a battle for the sake of Allah
(Jihad). (3) If the dead man on the bier was identified, it would be him in particular.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Stretch
Stretching one’s limbs represents: (1) Sexual desire.
(2) If dreamer is a girl, she desires marriage. (3) Blame for being lazy.
(4) Disease.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Daisy
Dreaming of picking a daisy, also called ox-eye or feverfew, at the foot of a mountain means one:
(1) Will conquer the heart of the beautiful girl of a great king. (2) Will befriend the wife’s relatives, which this plant alludes to.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Receiving an Unsheathed Sword
if a person sees himself as receiving an unsheathed (naked) sword and he lifts it above his head but does not strike with it, it means he will wield such power as will make him popular; or he will father a very beautiful girl. Regarding the above dream only Imaam Kirmani (RA) says that a son or brother will be born in the home of the dreamer.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
A Woman Acquiring a Spinning Wheel
If a woman dreams that she has acquired a spinning wheel, if she is expecting, she will give birth to a girl. Otherwise a sister will be born, if such a spinning wheel has a spindle or rod, it means she will get her daughter married.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Satan
• Receiving something from Satan: Illicit gains or decaying faith.
• A meteor or falling star pursuing a demon: Sound faith.
• Satan undressing the dreamer or snatching his clothes: The dreamer will lose his kingdom, dominion, or property, in view of the Quranic verse: “O children of Adam! Let not Satan seduce you as he caused your
(first) parents to go forth from the Garden and tore off from them their robe
(of innocence) that he might manifest their shame to them …” (“Al-Aaraf’ [The Heights], verse 27.)
• Dreaming of controlling the devils who come to you and follow you: The dreamer will become a great chief and crush and humiliate his enemies in view of the Quranic verse: “And of the evil ones [shayyatin, plural of shaytan]
(subdued We unto him) some who dived (for pearls) for him and did other works… “47
(“Al-Anbiyae” [The Prophets], verse 82.)
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Cat
• Shedding blood after being scratched by a cat or losing an eye to its claws: Beware of an implacable enemy!
• Selling a cat: The dreamer will spend his money.
• Eating cat meat: Will learn magic.
• Turning into a cat: Will earn one’s living through illicit practices and theft.
• A cat entering one’s house: A robber will break in. Whatever is taken away by the cat will be stolen by the burglar.
• Acquiring cat meat or grease: Will get money from a thief or obtain something stolen.
• Fighting a cat that bites or scratches the dreamer in the process: Long illness or deep trouble followed by relief. If the cat was overwhelmed, recovery will come faster. The reverse is also true.
• A cat and a mouse getting along with each other, as in the case of the wolf and the sheep:
(1) Hypocrisy. (2) No more fear of the enemy. (3) The ruler will be just to his subjects.
(4) The world will turn upside-down.
• Seeing a civet cat: A man of contradictions, combining high virtue and an evil character.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Testicles
• Seeing one’s testicles inflated and stronger than they really are: (1) Will be protected from any harm.
(2) Will have many girls.
• Seeing one’s testicles having been cut or destroyed: (1) An amount of money is due by the dreamer, of which two thousand, two hundred, or simply two currency units are missing.
(2) Will be deprived of God’s blessings, have no more children, and face hard times.
(3) Will divorce. (4) Will betray one’s country for personal benefits. (5) Will lose one’s children.
(6) Will lose one’s purse or money altogether. (7) Will lose the consent of the bride’s sponsors.
(8) Will lose one’s family or other relatives. (9) Will no longer be decent.
(10) Will contract a skin disease, in particular; alopecia (loss of hair), commonly called fox’s evil; or leontiasis leprosy, known as lion’s evil.
• A dreamer seeing his testicles being cut off or infected with a disease:
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars