Seeing “dead women alive”
in your dream

Throwing stones in every direction from a high altitude in a dream means being unjust toward others, or it could mean being in a position of strength. If one sees women throwing stones at him using a slingshot in a dream, it means sorcery and a bad spell. If a poor person sees himself hitting a rock with a staff to split it, and suddenly water gushes forth from it in the dream, it means that he will become rich. A rock in a dream also represents hard working women who are patient and bearing their sufferings with determination.

• Loaves of bread spread on the dining table: An enemy will emerge. If the dreamer eats from them, hostility will break out.

• A dead person giving bread to the dreamer: Money or welfare from an undesirable source.

• A dead person taking a loaf of bread from the dreamer to let it fall in the fire on tar or in an empty place: The dreamer’s sick wife, if any, will die or lose faith.

• Seeing bread above the clouds, on a rooftop, or high in a palm tree: The price of bread will go up.

• Bread on the ground and people stepping on it: A huge, thankless man who promotes luxury.

• Pissing on bread: Will have sex with a prohibited relative.

Seeing a known martyr alive in a dream means following his good traditions and aspiring for his character and conduct. Seeing a known martyr in a dream also means striving to attain Allah's pleasure and to reach His nearness.

(Women) In a dream, ribs represent women. Whatever may affect one's ribs in a dream will manifest in his wife, for it is said that Eve was created from Adam's rib. Ribs in a dream represent a protective shield. Their parable is like that of a tent and its pillars, a house and its foundation, the roof of a house, or a boat and its boards. Ribs in a dream also represent relatives of different social environments, or they could represent their stations of love, unity, compassion toward one another, or help they render to one another. Ribs in a dream also denote secret deeds or concealed actions. Ribs in a dream also mean punishment.

• Seeing one’s hair soft and limp but sprinkled: The money of the dreamer’s chief will be squandered. If the hair is not sprinkled, the boss s money will increase.

• Seeing oneself with long hair and being happy with it: Good dream, especially for women who use other women’s hair to adorn themselves 
(wigs made of human hair).

• Ibn Siren resented dreams whereby young people saw their hair graying or turning white, which, for him, meant poverty and worries, especially if the hair was long. Such a dream by a poor person meant that debts would add to misery or that he would go behind bars.

• Seeing in a house an unknown tree of the type representing women: A fire will be lit in that house in view of a verse in the Holy Quran: “Who hath appointed for you fire from the green tree, and behold! ye kindle from it. 
(“Ya-Sin,” verse 80.)

• Seeing an unknown tree in a house: A possible fight or quarrel, in view of a Quranic verse: “But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe [in truth] until they make thee judge of what is in dispute 
(Arabic: shagara) between them …”  (“Al-Nisae” [Women], verse 65.)

• Picking fruit from a tree while seated: Money will come without effort.

• Dreaming that a host of black women are coming to you: You will have plenty of welfare, but from the enemy side.

• Dreaming that your face is black and that you are wearing white clothes: You will have a female child in view of the Quranic verse that reads as follows: “When if one of them receiveth tidings of the birth of a female, his face remaineth darkened, and he is wroth inwardly.” 
(“Al-Nahl” [The Bees], verse 58.)

• Your face being black and your clothes dirty: You are lying to God.

• Your face turning black and dusty: You will die.

• A man dreaming that he has red makeup on his cheeks like women: He is an adulterer.

In a dream, geese represent beautiful women, handsome men or money. Honking gees in a dream represent death, drowning, crying or women in mourning. Herding geese in a dream means becoming a leader or presiding over people, earning their respect and becoming wealthy through them. A goose in a dream represents a man under stress. Geese in a dream also represents survivability and control of life in water and on land. Wild geese in a dream represents travels, business, property, moving into a new neighbourhood. Geese eggs in a dream represent wealth.

(Column base; Plinth) A column base or a plinth in a dream represents scholars, their circles, or their study room. A column base in a dream also could represent unmarried women, one's wife, knowledge, a trade, or a craft, or religious precepts. Building or owning a column base in a dream also could signify marriage, children, guidance, knowledge, or a chronic illness. The column base of a mosque in a dream represents pious people and the column base of a house represent chaste women.

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.

• Seeing Ali alive: Will be envied by others, but God will save him from their evil eye and give him power. He will also follow the Prophet’s Tradition.

• Seeing Ali as an old man carrying a weapon: Will be in touch with the ruler and benefit from such a relationship.

• Seeing Ali in his forties: Will consolidate your grip.

• A wise man seeing Ali with white hair and beard: Knowledge will dwindle.

• Ali seen in a place where people are prostrating themselves before him or carrying him on their shoulders: Those people will become dissidents 
(Shia) and come together to sow the seeds of dissension.19

• Seeing one of the companions of the Holy Prophet, like Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq,
Omar ibn El-Khattab, Othman ibn
Affan, and Ali ibn Abi Taleb, or all of them alive: The dreamer is blessed with a strong religious faith and a powerful family. He will also be promoted, dignified, and exalted.

• Seeing the Prophet’s companions repeatedly in one’s dreams: Things will go for the better.

• Dreaming of having become one of the Prophet’s companions: Will face hardships, then emerge victorious.

• 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.

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

A discarded stone in a dream represents a dead person.

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

they represent men, women and slave-girls.

Symbolises a women. If it breaks or is stolen his wife will die.

• Death of an animal: The interpreter should bear in mind what the animal symbolizes. For instance, a lion or an elephant would refer to the supreme authority in the country. The elephant represents a huge man, the cat and the mouse are thieves, and females are, indeed, women.

• Death of a ferocious animal with fangs and claws: Triumph over enemies and safety from harm.

• Death of a domestic beast: Bad omen, especially if it is the only beast that the dreamer possesses.

• Difficult passage from life to death: Severe chastisement in the Hereafter.

• Death of a child: Death of a woman and vice versa, because Muslim scholars used to find that women and children have this in common: lack of religious faith and reason.

• Terrible death occurring in a certain place: A fire will break out in that place.

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