Seeing “mice eating books”
in your dream

The mouse symbolizes the dreamer’s household: those who dwell in his house—his wife and children, et cetera—a debauched woman, or, some say, a devilish Jewish woman or a Jew, as related by Al-Nabulsi. It could also refer to a thief. Many mice means profit and welfare. Mice of the same color allude to women. The rat is a digging thief.

• Dreaming of a mouse playing in one’s house: Prosperity will increase because, according to the ancient Arabs, mice invade only those places that are prosperous. And only people who are not hungry can afford to play.

• Seeing mice in one’s house: Dangerous women will enter that house.

• A mouse leaving one’s house: Livelihood and blessings will decrease.

• Owning a mouse: Will have a servant because, like servants, mice share the food of the master.

• White and black mice coming and going: Long life, as the white indicate the days and the black the nights. To borrow the expressions of Ibn

Mice in a dream also represent the members of one's household. Killing or catching a mouse in a dream means taking advantage of a woman. Throwing a stone or shooting an arrow at a mouse in a dream means backbiting or slandering a contemptible woman, or corresponding with her eliciting the unlawful. Seeing a family of mice inside a well or near a slanting land in a dream means nearing the end of one's life. Seeing a large family of mice inside one's house in a dream also could represent a gathering of women, or holding a party in one's house. A mouse inside one's shirt in a dream represents a woman friend out of whom no good can come. The skin of a mouse in a dream means little money which is taken from a vile woman.

Siren, the black and white mice are the nights and days silently nibbling our life and body.

• Plenty of white and black mice in an inclined or jeopardized location or a well: Life will be shortened.

• Dreaming of a mouse during an afternoon nap: Will have a long life.

• Seeing a mouse in one’s clothes or bedding: Will have intercourse with an evil woman.

• A mouse gnawing on a person’s clothes: The time that passes and erodes everything.

• A mouse digging and searching: Beware of a searching thief.

• Killing a mouse: Will win over or subdue an evil or corrupt woman.

Reading the front page of a letter, a paper, or a book in a dream means receiving an inheritance. Reading the last page, or the back cover of a book in a dream means indebtedness. Reading a book in a dream also means receiving an inheritance. If one finds himself as a lettered person and if he reads well in his dream, it means that he will attain a high ranking job. If one sees himself reading his book of records in a dream, it means that he will repent for his sins.

• Stealing a Holy Quran: The dreamer will forget prayer.

• Holding a book or a Mushaf and opening it to find its pages blank: Appearances are deceitful or tricky.

• Eating a Mushaf or the pages of a Mushaf: The dreamer is taking money to transcribe the pages of the Holy Book, which is an illicit or immoral gain.

• Kissing the Mushaf: No shortcomings in discharging the dreamer’s duties.

• Writing Quranic texts in porcelain or mother-of-pearl or on a dress: The dreamer is interpreting the Quran the way he likes.

• Writing the Quran on the ground: The dreamer is an atheist.

• Reading the Quran without clothes: The dreamer is whimsical.

• An angel handing over a Scripture or a book to the dreamer and commanding him to read: 
(1) Good dream for a pious person, meaning joy.  (2) The fate of an irreligious dreamer is in jeopardy in view of the Quranic verse: “
(And it will be said unto him): Read thy book. Thy soul sufficeth as reckoner against thee this day.” 
(“Bani Israil” [The Children of Israel], verse 14.)

• Walking along the path: The dreamer is scrupulously observing religious tenets.

• Deviating from the path, the balance, and the book and crying: God may help you on Doomsday!

it Symbolises his writings in books and journals.

(Book dealer) In a dream, a bookseller represents someone who has vast knowledge or someone who gathers amazing stories. Seeing a bookseller in a dream also could mean overcoming one's trouble, solving one's problems, marriage, or the repentance of a sinner. (Also see Book; Bookstore)

(Chapters; Drawers; Scrolls) In a dream, the table of contents represents the subject of a hardcover book containing the bezels of wisdom, or a book of knowledge. It also means a rich woman, a rich man, a report card, forthcoming benefits, a register, an astrological sign, a scroll, or a drawer.

• Eating frog meat: Benefit from some friends.

• Eating crabmeat: Financial benefits and news from a distant land.

• Eating cooked ram meat: Fertility and abundance. Fat meat is better than lean.

• Eating raw ram meat: Absence.

• A good person dreaming that an angel is ordaining him to read the Book of Allah: A stern warning in view of the Quranic verse: “And it will be said unto him, ‘Read thy book. Thy soul sufficeth as reckoner against thee this day.’ “ 
(“Bani Israel” [The Children of Israel], verse 14.)

• Eating dog meat: Will triumph over your enemy and take a bite at his money.

• Eating venison  (deer flesh): Will get money from a pretty woman.

• Eating zebra meat or drinking zebra milk: Will acquire slaves or servants from a noble man.

• Eating cat meat: Will learn magic.

• Acquiring cat meat or grease: Will get money from a thief or obtain something stolen anyway.

• Eating donkey meat: Will earn money without a partner.

• Eating bread without food: The dreamer will be sick without anybody looking after him and will die lonely.

• Eating bread with honey: Will seek knowledge and wisdom and be better off, because honey indicates good knowledge and bread comfortable living.

• Eating bread and salt: Contentment.

• Eating vinegar with bread: Long life.

• Eating thin  (unleavened) bread: Contradictory interpretations like short life, few gains, and abundance.

• Unfinished bread: Strong fever, as this bread has to go back to the oven for completion.

• Hot white wheat bread: Children.

• Eating fox meat: Will fall ill and recover very fast.

• Eating duck meat: Will receive money from slave women or servants or will be blessed with a rich woman.

• Eating falcon meat: Money from the king or any supreme authority.

• Vulture meat: Money and influence.

• Eating tortoise meat: Money and knowledge.

• Urinating or pissing one, two, or three drops in the prayer niche: The dreamer will have as many virtuous and handsome children as there were drops.

• Pissing on a holy book: The dreamer will have a son who will memorize that book.

• The few drops that come out after urinating: Money that will not stay long, to the dreamer’s regret.

• Pissing and seeing a vapour rising to cover the whole sky: The dreamer will have a son whose realm will reach the horizons.

Eating a chicken in a dream means receiving benefits from a woman. Meat in a dream also means forbearance and patience for someone who is hot tempered, or who gets angry easily. Eating meat in a dream also could mean recovering from an illness, an end to one's distress, trouble and adversities. Eating the meat of an unlawful animal in a dream means receiving unlawful money. Eating a suspicious meat in a dream means earning suspicious money, or having an illegitimate marriage. Eating fowls meat in a dream means profits for a traveller.

(Flesh; Knowledge; Money; Substance; Wealth) Cooked meat in a dream means money. Eating raw meat in a dream means illness and pain. Eating raw meat in a dream also may mean benefits. Seeing raw meat and not eating from it in a dream could have adverse meaning. Eating cooked meat in a dream means increase in one's wealth. Eating a meat dish with an old man in a dream means becoming renowned, or entering the inner circle of a governor. Buying meat from the butcher in a dream means adversities. Tender meat in a dream mean death or backbiting.

Reading a book in another language in a dream means travelling to such a country, or going to places one is not familiar with and performing a job that will earn him fame. If one sees himself reading a book in a foreign language and is unable to properly decipher its words in a dream, it means that he will escape from a potential danger he could face in such a land, or it could mean falling sick in a foreign country, then recovering from one's illness before returning to one's homeland. (Also see Language; Quranic recital; Reckoning)

• Eating one’s own tongue:  (1) The dreamer is the silent, concealing, and self-restrained type. 
(2) The dreamer’s eloquence will help him.
To come back to the general interpretation:

• A woman eating her own flesh: Will commit adultery.

• A lady eating another woman’s flesh: Will have a lesbian experience with her, or each of them will try to overpower the other physically or otherwise.

• 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.)