Seeing “arabic person”
in your dream

Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar: Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu-Alayhi-wasallam) said, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of milk (in the dream) and I drank from it (to my fill) till I noticed its wetness coming out of my limbs. Then I gave the rest of it to 'Umar bin Al-Khattab." The persons sitting around him, asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream) O Prophet Muhammad?" He said, "(It is religious) knowledge." (Bukhari)

The head represents the observer's leader or patron. This could well be his father, brother, employer, chief, husband, king etc. Thus, any defect in the head points to a similar defect in the leader or patron. Sometimes, the head represents a persons capital.

The moon symbolizes the emperor, the supreme commander, or a person as influential as the former. The stars around it are his soldiers, the Pleiades are his houses or his wives and slave girls. It could also refer to the knowledgeable man, the scholar or all sorts of guides, evidence, references, and indications, for it lights people’s way in the darkness, especially during the last three nights in the Arabic month, which are the darkest. It alludes as well to children, the husband or wife, the master, and the beautiful female, owing to its beauty, particularly when it is full.
Likewise, the moon alludes to whatever increases and decreases, because this, in fact, is what happens to it regularly when it starts as a crescent, turns into a full moon, then becomes again like a bracket.
The new moon, or crescent, also represents a king, a prince, a commander, a leader, the newborn as it starts appearing from the vagina or as it utters its first cries, the hot bread just coming from the oven, a person reappearing after a long absence, the muath-then, or the one who cries for prayers, as he appears in his minaret, the orator at the podium, et cetera.

• Finding gold or taking it from someone: An excellent dream. It means that whoever you love is faithful and that your projects will be successful, provided the gold is clean and glittering. It also means that you will surmount difficulties.

• Having lost some gold and looking for it: You have trusted unworthy persons.

• Wearing a golden ring: Marriage or success in one’s endeavours, no matter whether the ring was in your or somebody else’s hand.

• Eating gold: Will store wealth for one’s children.

The bull symbolizes the lad or workman, because it is a working animal. It also refers to a Bedouin or a farmer who tills the land; a revolutionary, as it turns the earth upside down by scratching and digging with its hooves 
(the Arabic word for bull being thawr and for revolution thawrah); a helper, a slave, a servant, or a brother, as it is of great use to the farmer in tilling the land and to the Bedouin for various purposes; or fecundity and sex, in view of its well-known nature.
Bulls also symbolize foreigners. One to thirteen bulls signify animosity, more than fourteen war.

• A bull with big horns: An active person, a real worker full of strength,
ardour, and authority, a rich and armed man  (in view of the horns, which are terrible weapons).

• A hornless bull: A feeble and despicable man, the kind of person unable to earn his daily bread, a poor chief, or a pariah.

• A lady owning or taming a bull: Will get married, control her husband, or marry two of her daughters.

Secrecy symbolizes sex, the two words, serr and nikah, respectively, being synonyms in Arabic.

• Entrusting a woman with a secret: The dreamer desires her.

• Someone confiding something to the dreamer without there being any reference to sex: The dreamer will be involved in that secret matter.

The same interpretation applies to bitter orange as for citron or Adam’s apple. But the meaning is more acute for both pros and cons. However, most interpreters resent the bitter orange in view of the fact that its Arabic name, naranj, comprises the sound nar, which means “fire.”

Urine generally symbolizes spending and wasting money. It could also mean illicit or inappropriate spending.

• Urinating: The dreamer will spend money that will benefit himself.

• Urinating smoothly: Money will flow from the dreamer’s pocket, and his savings will be eroded.

• Containing one’s urine: The dreamer will be angry with his wife.

• Being hard pressed but finding nowhere to urinate: The dreamer is searching for a place to bury his money but is unable to find one.

• Holding back urine or urinating with difficulty: The dreamer is rushing things and taking incorrect initiatives, because continence is like frustration and frustrated persons are unstable and never go back on a decision before they feel the heat.

• Urinating in an unknown place: The dreamer will marry a woman or a slave in that place who will receive his semen and make him part of her family.

• Urinating in a well: The dreamer will spend illegally acquired money.

• Urinating on a commodity: Will incur losses in it.

• A rich person urinating and withholding some of the urine: He will lose some of his wealth.

• A troubled person urinating and retaining some of his urine: He will get limited relief.

• Urinating in drops: A debt will be paid back in instalments.

• Urinating with someone and seeing the urine mixing: Rapprochement or one of the two will marry into the other’s family.

• 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.

But ancient Arab interpreters were divided about the interpretation of dreams involving silver. To some finding silver tablets or bars meant joy or that the dreamer would procure some in reality. To others it meant worries and sorrow; it all depended on the personality of the dreamer himself. According to Al-Kirmani, genuine and intact silver meant some truthful news would arrive. Broken silver is a reference to misleading information and animosity.

• Finding some molten piece of silver or receiving it from someone: The dreamer will marry a woman from that person’s folk.

• A golden or silver salt cellar: An agreeable woman, as in Arabic salt is melh and agreeable is maliha. But silver is always better than gold.

• 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

Angels symbolize translators who understand people’s languages; witnesses; and trustworthy persons and emissaries, especially of kings and princes.

• Seeing well-known angels of the type who bring good tidings: (1) Something pleasant will emerge in the life of the dreamer.
(2) Prosperity and strength. (3) Triumph after suffering injustice. (4) Recovery from a disease.
(5) Security after fear. (6) Prosperity will replace poverty. (7) Relief after hardships.
(8) An injunction to the dreamer to perform the pilgrimage and/or engage in Jihad 
(holy struggle).

It is related that in Baghdad some persons were seated together, relating their dreams to each other. One amongst them said : “Friends I wish to relate to you a strange dream I had seen. I saw a barber shaving off my beard and moustche. One awakening I proceeded to Imaam Jafar Saadiq (RA) and related to him the dream. He said: You are to become embroiled in some difficulty owing to which you will lose your honour and respectability amongst the people. This will cause you muich grief and sorrow. I was shocked by this interpretation. I returned home with difficulty and remained indoors for four days. One the fifth day I decided to go out for a walk When I reached the door of the masjid.

Shout, cry, and scream are homonyms in Arabic.

• Shouting at people: Will become influential or govern a state.

• A cry in the wilderness: The dreamer’s tyranny will die out, and he will lose strength.

• Screaming: A calamity is ahead; because people scream only when they have severe pain from a disease or a plague of some sort or when they are in distress, like somebody drowning, hit by a sword, or buried under rubble.

Up to three truffles symbolizes mean and useless or thankless individuals of either sex.
Truffles, like mushrooms, fungi, and plants that have no roots, symbolize foundlings, natural children produced by adultery, persons of unknown origin, and those who cannot stand on their feet, or money that comes spontaneously and without effort, like a gift, a donation, a grant, or any sudden and unexpected source of gratification. This belief is reinforced by the fact that the Muslims  Holy Prophet is reported to have said that truffles were a kind of manna, which, according to the Webster dictionary, is food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness.

• Dreaming that there is singing in some place: Lies will separate those who love each other and covetous and evil-eyed persons will deceive others because, says Ibn
Siren: “The first, ever, to have sung and wailed was damned Satan, may God curse him.”

• Singing nice poems or songs on a harmonious note and with a loud but pleasant voice: Good dream for singers, composers, and their bands. Singing with a harsh voice and without melody: Unemployment and misery.

• Walking in the mud and singing: Good dreams, especially for those who sell lutes.

• Singing in the bathroom: Equivocal statements.

Dreaming of being a priest means: The dreamer is extremely heretical.

• The dreamer will be praised by people but face extraordinary hardships, including hard living, fear, and terror, as the word for priest in Arabic is raheb, from rahba, meaning “awe and terror.”

• The dreamer is shrewd and deceitful.

Stars symbolize people. Those that have a masculine name represent men; those with a feminine name allude to women. Big ones refer to notables, small ones to youths, children, or slaves. The ones the Arabs used as guiding marks when they moved in the desert are the Prophet Muhammad’s companions. Stars that had once upon a time been worshipped instead of God and were thus metamorphosed, says Ibn
Siren, like the Dog Star or Sirius, Venus, and Canopus, symbolize irreligious and evil persons. For a king, the stars are his soldiers and followers; for a bride or a bridegroom the stars are her or his entourage.

• Stars falling on earth or in the sea or burning out: Bloodshed and killings.

Seeing one’s image reflected in the Stone of Ismail means: 
(1) The dreamer will be blessed with a son who will support him one day. 
(2) The dreamer will be banned by a tribunal from disposing freely of one’s wealth as, in Arabic, the words hajar 
(stone) and hajr  (legal interdiction) resemble each other.

ALMS GIVING.

• Dreaming of alms giving depends on the dreamer. Such a dream made by a religious scholar or an erudite man means that he will be conveying his knowledge to others. The same dream made by a ruler means that he will be in charge of more people. To a craftsman it means that he will teach his craft to certain persons, etc.

• Giving sadaqa to the poor:  (1) No more worries.  (2) No more fear.

• Feeding an atheist: The dreamer is fortifying the enemy.