Seeing “eating dead friend”
in your dream

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.

Soon after that, I visited my father, and my friend proudly reminded me of his interpretation. Later on, I travelled away from home. When I returned to my town, I passed by a graveyard. At the gate stood a woman who was guarding that cemetery and whose eye was bandaged with a blue piece of cloth. I knew her, so I stopped and asked her about the news. She said to me: 'May God grant you a long life. Your father has passed away.' Then she took me to his grave, and I fell on it, crying and wailing, exactly as I saw in my dream. Thus, my friend's interpretation did not come true, for he has no hand in it."

(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.

• 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.

• Death of a relative: Will become less able.

• Death of a pregnant woman: Will give birth to a male child who will prove to be very beneficial and bring about a lot of joy.

• Death of an unknown woman:  (1) Worldly matters will run into a snag. 
(2) Drought.
Death of a friend:  (1) The dreamer will die.  (2) The dreamer will lose that friend.

• Death of an unknown old man: The dreamer’s endeavours will not bear any fruit.

• 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

• Killing a dog: Will triumph over enemy.

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

• Drinking dog milk: Fear.

• Using a dog as a pillow: The dog is a friend who will prove useful and whom the dreamer will be proud of.

• Being accompanied by a dog: Disappearance, in view of the story of Ahlel Kahf 
(The Companions of the Cave), in the Holy Quran. (“Al-Kahf” [The Cave], chapter 18.)

• Seeing the dog of Ahlel Kahf, whose name was believed to be Qitmir: Fear, prison, or evasion.

• Seeing the dog of Ahlel Kahf in another country: The ruler or the regime will be changed.

• 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 dog in a dream also represents a police informer or a police dog. A dog in a dream also represents a weak enemy or a niggardly person. If a dog barks at someone in a dream, it means that one will hear something he despises or hates to make public from someone who lacks any sense of honor or virtue. Eating a dog's meat in a dream means cracking down at one's enemy. A dog in a dream also represents a guard or an innovator. Drinking dog's milk in a dream means a scare. Laying one's head on a dog or relaxing with a dog or using the dog for a pillow in a dream, the dog then represents a friend or a good companion.

In a dream, a mountain that stands high is alive, but a crumbling mountain which has turned into a pile of rocks is dead. If a person sees himself climbing an erect mountain, eating from its plants and drinking from its water, and if he qualifies to govern, it means that he will be appointed to a governing post under the auspices of a stringent ruler, though his subjects do receive benefits from his government. The size of benefits the governor will acquire is equal to the quantity of food and the measure of water he drinks from it in his dream.

• Picking, gathering, owning, or eating apples: Success in the dreamer’s field. Sweet apples mean honest gains. Sour ones represent sinful earnings.

• Eating an apple: Eating up money in a way as to become the talk of the town.

• Picking an apple: Will obtain money and praise from an honest man.

• Smelling an apple in a mosque: Will get married.

• A woman smelling an apple in a party or at an orgy: Will become the center of a scandal.

• A woman eating an apple in a place she knows: Will give birth to a good boy.

• Carrying an alternative head: The dreamer is fighting a plague or trying to remedy something bad he had concocted.

• Seeing oneself having cut off people’s heads at one’s home: People will be driven to the dreamer and will come to his home of their own free will or will assemble there.

• Seeing horns on one’s head: The dreamer is an invincible man.29

• Seeing oneself with a big head: The dreamer has a big brain.

• Seeing oneself headless: The dreamer is ignorant and has little, if any, brains.

• Eating the head of a dead person: The dreamer will die soon.

Views on certain items of this chapter are widely divided and sometimes diametrically opposed. For instance, according to Al-Nabulsi:

• Eating somebody’s flesh: Will speak ill of such a person in his absence.

• Eating one’s own flesh: Will eat up gains. According to Ibn Siren, will eat away savings or whatever is hoarded.
For Ibn Shaheen:

• Eating human flesh: Financial gains in any case. If the person whose flesh is being eaten is known to the dreamer, the latter will take a bite at the victim’s purse or property. In case the dreamer is eating such flesh voraciously and with great appetite while blood is spilling imminent, unquestionable, and huge financial gains will be achieved.

However, eating it in a dream means poverty. A bowl of wheat flour in a dream represents one's savings, or it could represent one's family and children. Mixing wheat flour to make bread in a dream means that a friend will travel to meet one's family. Mixing and kneading whole-wheat flour in a dream means faith, deputyship and victory over one's enemy. Flour in a dream means immediate profits, the surfacing of the truth and enjoying comfort after toiling.

Eating a ripened apricot in a dream means being generous and charitable, or it could mean recovering from an illness. Breaking a branch from an apricot tree in a dream means a dispute with one's family or with a friend. In general, breaking a branch from a tree in a dream means claiming someone's money or denying him his money, or it could mean failing to perform one's prayers, neglecting one's obligatory fast or misusing and damaging someone else's property. Attending an apricot farm in a dream means trustworthiness and dutifulness.

(Friend; Responsibility; Support) Riding over the shoulders of one's enemy in a dream means committing a wrongdoing or a shameful act against someone. If there is no enmity between the two, and if one sees himself riding over the shoulders of his friend in a dream, it means that he will earn something from him. Carrying someone over one's shoulders in a dream means being indebted to him. Carrying a hypocrite over one's shoulders in a dream could mean that one may work at a lumberyard, or deliver wood for living.

• A poor person collecting and eating truffles and the like: Will become rich.

• A rich person collecting and eating such plants: Will get richer.

• An ascetic person unearthing and eating truffles: Will come back to the pleasures of the flesh.

• Moving from one truffle field to another: Will undertake pleasure trips or move from one market to another or from one trade to another.

• Riding on a planet: Benefits, welfare, power, influence, and leadership.

• Planets under the ceiling:  (1) Home will be destroyed  (as, the home having no roof anymore, the planets could be seen from within the house). 
(2) The owner of the house will die.

• Eating planets: The dreamer is eating up people’s money and destroying them, except if he is a scientist or an astronomer, in which case it would mean that he will do something great and be better off. The crowd eating planets means death.

• Marrying a resuscitated woman, abstaining from touching her, but settling in her house: Will die.

• Finding a dead person alive in his grave: Will become wise and pious and achieve orderly gains.

• Going to a graveyard to unearth the dead and finding some of them alive and the others not: A bloodbath will take place in that spot or country.

• A pharaoh resuscitating and ruling a country: Tyranny or corruption will prevail and the people’s condition will deteriorate.

• A horseman dreaming of flying: Good horsemanship.

• Dreaming of flying on a stretcher, a litter, a bed, or the like:  (1) Legs will be affected by a severe ailment. 
(2) Will become very ill.  (3) Will die.

• A dead person flying: Will escape danger.

• A bier flying and people with it:  (1) A chief or a scholar will die without anybody knowing about it. 
(2) A great man will die in a foreign land, during a pilgrimage, or in a battle for the sake of Allah 
(Jihad).  (3) If the dead man on the bier is identified, it means that man in particular.