Shaping an Arrow
It symbolises honour and superiority. Or the birth of a brother or son. Or marriage which will be a means of a son being born to him.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
House
The house gate or door is the father of the family. The mortise and tenon symbolize the female and male sexual organs as they fit into each other. Locked together, they represent the husband embracing his wife. By extension, the mortise and tenon could also refer to the couple’s two children, a boy and a girl, to two brothers, or to two persons sharing the same house.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Hourglass
(Sandglass) In a dream, the two bulbs of a sandglass represent two sons, or two brothers, or two partners. Whatever happens to them in the dream will reflect in such people. An hourglass in a dream also means makeup, beauty, or marriage. The sand trickling from the upper bulb into the lower bulb in a dream represents man's semen.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Leg
The legs symbolize a man’s stature, wealth, and means of living on which he relies. They also refer to his life and to his parents.
• Having iron legs: Will live long.
• One’s legs made of glass or looking like bottles: Will go bankrupt, lose one’s folk, and die, because glass is easily breakable and bottles do not last long.
• Having an ailment in the right leg or the latter being broken or snatched out and seeing a wound on it: Son will be ill. The same dream applied to the left leg means that daughter will become engaged or the dreamer’s wife will give birth to a girl.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Mummification
Embalming the body of a deceased person in a dream is a cause of happiness for a sad person and repentance of a sinner. (Also see Shroud)
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Mail
Mail in a dream means activities or travels. Mail in a dream also means being led by one's evil actions and sins into the road of destruction or consequent death. (Also see Mailman; Ostrich)
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Boiling water
Washing a deceased person with boiling water in a dream means that the latter is already suffering from hell in his own grave. (Also see Hot water)
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Hand
The hand is the person’s main helper with which he earns his livelihood and which he extends for charity. Strong and healthy hands represent the ability to give and take properly. The right hand symbolizes strong men, the left women.
Having long hands means: (1) For a ruler: Glory. (2) For a merchant: Profit.
(3) For a businessman: Shrewdness.
The length of the hands of the imam (the Muslims spiritual leader) refers to the strength of his supporters and aides as well as his long life. If he can see their bones, it means that his wealth will increase. If they turn into marble, he will live long and always be happy.
• Losing a hand: Will lose a relative who will either travel or die.
• Placing a hand under one’s armpit and withdrawing it to see it gleaming:
(1) If a scholar, will acquire knowledge. (2) If a businessman, will make gains.
• Placing a hand under the armpit and withdrawing it to find fire in it: Will overpower or outclass all rivals and enjoy dignity and
honour.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
File
(Rasp; Tongue) A file in a dream represents one's tongue. It also means satisfying an innate need or giving a keen edge to an expression. It also represents a helper, a son who provides for the need of his mother or younger brothers and sisters. A file in a dream also represents demands, obligations, or sexual intercourse.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Hatred
Hatred is a bad dream, because it is the reverse of love and peace, which are blessings from God, and the reverse of blessings is hard ships. The reasoning is based on a verse in the Holy Quran: “… and remember Allah’s
favour unto you: how you were enemies and He made friendship between your hearts so that ye became as brothers by His grace”
(“Al-Imran” [The family of Imran], verse 103.)
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Salted Fish
Salted fish whether small or big symbolise grief and sorrow caused by a perbond servants, subordinates or brother.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Seeping
(Leaking) Seeping water from a crack in a wall in a dream means adversities and distress caused by a brother or an in-law.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Red anemones
(bot.) In a dream, anemones represent fire, red cheeks, blushing, a beauty mark, the sickness of one's brother or sister.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Itching
If one's itching seems to last with no solution in sight in the dream, it means that he will suffer from a condition he cannot bear in wakefulness. If one sees people on the road afflicted with itching in a dream, it means that he will earn money but with a headache. A state he will become known by it. (Also see Mangy; Plague; Scratching)
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Eating the Shell or White of the Egg
Eating the shell or white of the eggs but not the yolk means he will usurp wealth belonging to the deceased or a slain person. It could also mean that he will dig up graves for the purpose of stealing the shroud (kafn) of the dead people.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Fox
The fox is a crafty person, a crook, one who dodges on the spiritual and material planes. It could also be an astrologer or a doctor.
• Seeing a fox: Will feel depressed, be humiliated, or lose part of one’s fortune.
• Dodging a fox: The dreamer is a liar or a poet.
• A fox dodging the dreamer: An adversary or a competitor is doing so.
• Fighting or quarrelling with a fox: The same will happen with a relative.
• Calling a fox: Pain from wife or husband.
• Touching a fox: Will be scared to death by a jinn.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Wakefulness
(Alertness; Keenness of mind; Vigilance) Wakefulness in a dream signifies keenness of mind, perseverance in one's objective, completion of one's work, retracting one's steps to reverse an act of wrongdoing, or it could mean longevity. Waking up someone from his sleep in a dream means guiding him or showing him the road.
Dream interpreter: Ibn Sirin
Thigh
• Dreaming that one’s thigh is red and hairy and calling someone to let him shave that hair: The dreamer has a debt a relative will settle on his behalf.
• Having a reduced or small thigh: (1) The dreamer’s clan is small.
(2) The dreamer is a solitary person. (3) The dreamer will be estranged.
• Having pain in the thigh: The dreamer is not good to his folk.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Yaaqoub
• Seeing The Prophet Yaaqoub (Jacob): (1) Will Become Strong And Obviously Rich And Be Blessed With Marriage And Mighty Children Who Will Bring The Dreamer Sorrow, Though, Of Which He Will Later Be Relieved And Rendered Happy
(2) Will come closer to God by worshiping and obeying Him and through charity.
(3) A plight will make the dreamer’s brothers feel sorry for him. He might even see his eyesight weakening or lose it completely, then recover it, by God’s will.
(4) Will have some sort of disease, receive a penalty, or face an ordeal because of a son, but all those will come to a happy ending.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars
Abel
Seeing Abel means: (1) The dreamer will be envied and suffer from spite on the part of one’s enemy or be killed without having committed any crime.
(2) The dreamer will be the victim of an injustice. (3) The dreamer will obey God, Who will bless him and send him to Paradise.
(4) The dreamer will face hardships and be weakened because of a woman or some relatives.
(5) The dreamer must beware of his brothers lest they kill him.
Dream interpreter: Various Islamic Scholars