Seeing “catching dead fish”
in your dream

Frying meat or eggs or fish, etcetera in a dream means separation or turning away from someone or something. It also means satisfying one's needs, attaining one's goal or identifying it. Frying in a dream represents the skill of cultivating one's personal entitlements, or it could mean the home returning of a long awaited traveller or the release of a prisoner. Frying something with sugar in a dream represents a profitable business partnership. (Also see Deep frying)

Dates symbolize the reading of the Holy Quran, good religious faith, rain, general and honest welfare, and savings.

• Eating high-quality dates: Will hear something good and useful.

• Buying dates: Will save money or receive money from some safe or treasury.

• Opening a date and removing its pit: Will have a child, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran: “Lo! Allah 
(it is) Who splitteth the grain of corn and the date-stone  (for sprouting). He bringeth forth the living from the dead, and is The bringer-forth of the dead from the living. Such is Allah. How then are ye perverted?” 
(“Al-Anam” [Cattle], verse 95.)

• Eating dates with tar: Will divorce secretly.

• 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.

• Trying to unearth one’s body: The dreamer is a materialist, running after worldly matters, and will succeed only if he managed to disinter the corpse.

• An animal digging the earth or soil in one’s yard with its pawns or hooves: Beware of an enemy.

• Digging with one’s nails in an inappropriate place: The dreamer is after something very difficult.

• Digging a grave or a pit for oneself or somebody else:  (1) Will build a house. 
(2) Will settle in that area.

• Digging a grave on a surface: Will live long.

• Digging in a grave with one’s nails to find a living person emerging from it: Welfare and joy, especially if the dreamer is a virtuous person. He would have the best of two worlds.

A discarded stone in a dream represents a dead person.

(See Accountability; Intercession; Reckoning; Resurrection; Rising of the dead)

(See Accountability; Intercession; Reckoning; Resurrection; Rising of the dead)

(Blabber; Hodgepodge) In a dream, a magpie represents a man who keeps no promise, who has neither honor nor does he feel comfortable with anyone. Such a man is rich, accursed and opportunistic. If a magpie speaks to someone in a dream, it means that he will receive news concerning a distant person. Catching a magpie in a dream means overcoming a corrupt and a perfidious person. Fighting with a magpie in a dream means engaging in a futile adventure and gaining nothing from it.

• A king dreaming of looking after a falcon: Will have an army of Arabs known for their stoicism and courage.

• A king dreaming of a falcon taking off from his hand and leaving a thread or a feather: The king will be overthrown, but will keep some wealth.

• Seeing a falcon in one’s house: Will subdue a thief.

• Catching a falcon or placing it on one’s hand: Will catch a thief and recover lost property.

• Seizing a falcon: Will have a great son.

A pleasant dream for both the living and dead since green is the colour of the people of Jannah.

The crow symbolizes a haughty man who walks arrogantly, a miser, a corrupt person, and a liar. According to religious belief, it once was a human being but was metamorphosed as a result of a curse. In general, sight of one does not augur well. Paradoxically, it sometimes alludes to long life.

• Catching a crow: Will make illicit gains through corruption and arrogance.

• Seizing or winning a crow: Vanity and wrongdoing.

• Owning a crow: Will loot somebody or something.

• Talking to a crow: Will drown in worries, but relief will follow.

• Eating crow meat: Will get money from thieves.

See Gargoyle. DRAWING LOTS.

• Drawing lots against someone and winning: Will triumph in a righteous matter.

• Drawing lots and being rejected: Will have worries and go to jail, then be saved, in view of the story of Yunus 
(Jonah) in the Holy Quran: “And lo! Jonah verily was of those sent [to warn], when he fled unto the laden ship. And they drew lots and was of those rejected; and the fish swallowed him while he was blameworthy; and had he not been one of those who glorify 
(Allah), he would have tarried in its belly till the day when they are raised.” 
(“Al-Saffat” [Those Who Set the Ranks], verses 139–44.)

• A fox calling the dreamer: Will be terrified.

• Playing with a fox: Will be blessed with a woman who loves you as much as you love her.

• Catching a fox:  (1) The dreamer will obtain the favours of a woman without there being any great love for her. 
(2) Will triumph over an adversary or a competitor.

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

• Drinking fox milk:  (1) Will recover from a disease.  (2) A worrisome matter will be over.

• Seeing herds of foxes: Magic and ruse will be widespread in the area.

• Rewarding a fox with extreme generosity:  (1) The dreamer is rewarding people who do not deserve it. 
(2) The dreamer enjoys lying.

• Pissing sand or mud: The dreamer performs his ablutions neither properly nor regularly.

• Pissing fire:  (1) The dreamer will have a powerful son.  (2) The dreamer will have a son who will become a thief.

• Pissing a lion: The dreamer will have an unjust son.

• Pissing worms: The dreamer will be prolific.

• Pissing a snake: The dreamer will have a son who will turn hostile to him.

• Pissing a she-cat: The dreamer will have a girl by an Oriental woman born in a coastal area.

• Pissing a fish: The dreamer will have a girl from a woman he brought from a coastal area, like the shores of the Arabian Sea.

(Angel of death; Bone-breaker; Eagle) In a dream, an osprey represents a powerful and a mighty warrior, and a merciless man whom no one trusts. If one sees an osprey over his roof, or inside his house, or standing over his head in a dream, it represents the angel of death. Catching an osprey in a dream means frequenting a ruler and remaining constantly wary of him whether one obeys him, or opposes him in opinion. If an osprey scratches someone with his claws in a dream, it means depression and financial losses.

A wooden bowl in a dream also represents a woman, a housekeeper, the workplace, or one's shop. If one sees a gathering of people or scholars partaking in a sweet meal from a large wooden bowl in a dream, it represents a community project that unites people's hearts and allows them to share their knowledge. If one sees a group of people gathering to eat a fish or a piece of rotten meat in a dream, it means that a group of evil people are gathered to take advantage of a prostitute. (Also see Bowl)

• Catching and taming an eagle: The dreamer will befriend a king.

• An eagle scratching the dreamer with its claws: The dreamer will face physical and financial hardships.

• An eagle being friendly, giving something to the dreamer, or talking to him in a comprehensible manner: Benefits and welfare.

• A woman giving birth to an eagle: The dreamer will have an illustrious son, if the lady lives in the propitious milieu. If she is poor, she will give birth to a soldier.

• Riding on an eagle:  (1) Doom for great men and rulers.  (2) Welfare for the poor.

If cooked or roasted it symbolises wealth. If uncooked it means backbiting –if eaten. For Allah Taala says; Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you will abhor it.

• Drinking water through one’s anus: The dreamer is constipated or congested.

• Seeing worms or lice coming out of the rectum or anal tract: Will part from one’s children.

• Blood coming out of the anus: A reference to the grandchildren.

• Being stained with one’s own anal blood: Illicit money.

• Seeing a duster coming out of one’s anus  (or stomach): Will move away from strangers who are eating up the money of your children. Seeing a peacock coming out of one’s anus: A beautiful girl will be born to the dreamer.

• A fish coming out of one’s anus: The dreamer will have an ugly girl.

If a married person sees himself catching a male partridge in a dream, it means that he will beget a blessed son. If a pregnant woman catches a partridge in a dream, it means that she will give birth to a daughter. Slaughtering a partridge in a dream means committing adultery. Driving or pushing a partridge in a dream means rebuking a woman. Owning a partridge in a dream means marrying an Asiatic or a Persian woman, or meeting with a wealthy woman, or marrying a woman who will betray him and bring no benefits to him.

A rat in one's house in a dream means that he will emigrate from one land to another. If the person seeing the dream owns a house, it means that he will sell it. Rats in one's house in a dream also represent thieves one must guard his house against, or that he must guard himself against the betrayal of a close acquaintance. Eating a rat in a dream means backbiting others, or earning unlawful money. In general, rats in a dream represent insolence, causing damage, fornication, adverse marital conditions, or problems in the upbringing of one's children. Catching a rat in a dream means suffering from humiliation and despise.