Seeing “dreaming oneself dead”
in your dream

• Seeing a person’s grave being turned into a house, a shop, or a village: The family of the defunct will build a house there.

• Dreaming of entering a grave without being carried on a bier: Will buy an empty house.

• Standing by a grave: Will commit a sin, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that reads: “And never 
(O Muhammad) pray for one of them who dieth, nor stand by his grave. Lo! they disbelieved in Allah and His messenger, and they died while they were evildoers.” 
(“Al-Taubah” [Repentance], verse 84.)

• Standing by one’s grave and looking at it: Will repent and sins will be forgiven.

• Seeing a well-off person roaming about in a graveyard: That person will go broke 
(because the dead do not carry any money).

• A man praying in a church according to Christian rites: Will mix with atheists, heretics, adulterers, drunkards, or people who commit other abominations. The same would apply to a woman dreaming of attending a tumultuous marriage ceremony or a funeral at which people weep loudly, tear their pockets, and wear black.

• Remembering or mentioning Allah in a church and denouncing what the worshipers there are doing: Will work for the promotion of virtue and the deterrence of vice.

• Mentioning God, crying, and praying toward the Kabah  (in the direction of
Mecca (Makkah)) inside the church: Will visit a graveyard to pray for the dead or attend a funeral service.

vigour, as the words grandfather and endeavours are homonyms in Arabic.

• An identified dead man sodomizing a living human: The latter will obtain a share from the former’s bequest or from his heirs or kith and kin.

• Sodomizing a dead man: The dreamer will pray for the latter.

• Being sodomized by the caliph  (or ruler): The dreamer will rule over a province or be given an important position. Sodomizing a man without problems: Harmony prevails between the two partners during that period, and the passive one will benefit from the other, be he identified or not.

• Penetrating the anus of a prelate: The dreamer will sweep dirt.

• 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.

• 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.

• A Magi dreaming that he has become a Jew or a Christian:  (1) A relative change for the better. 
(2) Will indulge in atheism further and be lost even more.

• Dreaming of being a Magian: The dreamer is sensual and running ex clusively after worldly matters because, writes Al-Nabulsi, the Magians are the dogs who own the wealth of this world.38

• Borrowing a ring: The dreamer will own something that will not last.

• Taking a ring from a king:
A house the dreamer enters, dwells in, or owns. The stone is the gate or door of that house.
A girl or a woman whom the dreamer marries and whose ring-shaped vagina he will deflower by introducing “the finger of his belly” 
(penis) in it. The stone represents her face.

• Wearing the king’s ring:  (1) The dreamer will be given a province. 
(2) The dreamer will succeed his father.  (3) In case the dreamer has no father or if his father is dead, the reverse of what he wishes will happen or he will be given a useless province.

• A ruler dreaming that his ring has been taken away from him by force: 
(1) Will be deposed.  (2) Will divorce.

• Owning or eating barley:  (1) Health and wealth. Dreaming of barley is better than dreaming of wheat. 
(2) An allusion to a son whose life will be short, because, according to Ibn
Siren, barley is what Jesus Christ used to eat. 

• Definitive divorce: Will lose one’s job irrevocably or perhaps will become self-sustaining for good.

• Divorcing one’s wife, then feeling jealous: Keenness to preserve her.

• A bachelor dreaming of divorce: Will change his line of conduct for the better or for the worse. But it could also mean that death is near.

• Divorcing an unloved partner: The dreamer will see some of his desires fulfilled.

• A man dreaming that he has divorced his wife but still has others or some free women or slaves around: Will lose only part of his fortune or authority.

• A religious-minded person dreaming that he has divorced his wife: Will cut himself off from worldly matters and turn ascetic.

• A woman dreaming that she has a pair of testicles: Might bear twins.

• 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.

• A woman having sex with another: Will confide her secrets and share the views and acts of her homosexual partner. If she does not know her lesbian mate, she will do something wrong.

• A woman who has a man of her own dreaming that another female has engaged her in sexual intercourse: Will part from that man, become a widow, and as the days go by share secrets with her lesbian sex partner.

• A woman dreaming that she has turned into a man: Good luck and benefit from her husband.

• Dreaming that the head was shaved without remembering having shaved it: Will triumph over enemies and become strong.

• A woman dreaming that her hair was shaved: Will be abandoned by her husband or die.

• A woman dreaming that her husband has shaved her head or shortened her hair at the
Kabah  (the Muslims  holiest shrine, in Mecca (Makkah)): She will settle her debts, and her wishes will be fulfilled. If her husband had done so elsewhere than in
Mecca (Makkah), he will hold her captive in her house, as if he had cut the wings of a bird. It could also mean that he would slander her.

• 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

Perfuming oneself with sweet incense in a dream means having a good friendship. An incense burner or holder in a dream represents a certitude that is praiseworthy. Perfume in a dream basically means good, though to a bedridden person it means death. This category includes; amber, henna plant (Lawsonia inermis, bot.), or fumigating oneself with sweet incense, though there is a danger that could arise from the smoke in the dream. Perfuming oneself with amber in a dream means increase in earnings that will come through the labor of a rich person who is associated with the one seeing the dream. The seeds of any dark colored perfume such as carnation, clove, or their powder, etcetera, means receiving praises.

• A pious person dreaming of flying: A desire for learning.

• A debauched person dreaming of flying: Is seeking vice and evil.

• An uncommitted person dreaming of flying: Is seeking a novelty or might turn heretic.

• Racing somebody and flying and winning the race: Will defeat that person and obtain some kind of promotion.

• Flying horizontally and steadily: Matters will be straightened without effort.

• Flying right or left in the sky: Will travel to an unusual destination or be dignified.

• Flying if no trip is in sight: Unemployment.

• Flying by one’s own free will and stopping such an action when desired: Facilities and plenty of welfare.

• 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.

• Failing to reach the desired destination: A change for the worse.

• Using a stick or a perch to jump: That stick or perch symbolizes an extremely powerful person or a strong asset on whom the dreamer could rely in whatever he aims for.

• 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.

• Seeing many date palms in an unusual place: Will command as many men.

• 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.

• A sick man sitting on top of or owning a tree: His fate will depend on the condition of the tree as witnessed in the dream.

• 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.

(Musk; Spermaceti) To perfume or anoint oneself with amber in a dream means increase in one's earnings through a rich acquaintance or earning money through a notable person or through a man of knowledge. Seeing a person mixing amber in a dream denotes a praiseworthy person, an architect or a builder. Anointing oneself with amber in a dream signifies hearing praises.

• Cutting a citron in two parts: Will marry a foreign, but honest and rich woman who will give birth to a boy and a girl of frail health.

• A woman dreaming that she has citrons on her knees: Will give birth to a blessed girl.

• A woman dreaming that she has a crown from a citron tree on her head: Will marry a religious man who has a good reputation.

• A man dreaming that his wife has given him citrons: She will give birth to a male child.

• Throwing citrons at somebody: The dreamer wishes to marry a relative of that person.