Seeing “when you see young males”
in your dream

• 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.

(Auger; Borer; Gimlet; Wimble) In a dream, a drill represents a devious and a fierce person. In a dream, a drill also means satisfying one's desire or needs, or it could mean using someone's help to reach one's goal, or perhaps it could mean travelling unwillingly. A drill in a dream also represents drilling a well, or it could represent a prurient, lascivious and a lustful man. In a dream, a drill also represents the male of any large quadruped or a filly. (Also see Drilling)

• Old people looking at the dreamer, who is armed: His friends are envying and coveting him.

• Young men looking at the dreamer, who is armed: His enemies are casting an evil eye on him.

• Being armed and capable of using the weapons:  (1) The dreamer is an accomplished person. 
(2) The dreamer is pious.  (3) If ill, God will heal him.  (4) If on a journey, will return safe and sound. 
(5) Will no longer be scared.  (6) Will achieve goals.

• Being disarmed: The dreamer’s own power and folk will weaken.

(Hank of yarn; Spool; Thread) For pensioners, seeing a ball of thread in a dream signifies increase in one's benefits or receiving extra income. A ball of thread in a dream also represents an astute worker, an employee, an intelligent and a hard working young man, or it could mean longevity. (Also see Spool; Thread)

Interpreters widely differ on the sight of Jews in a dream. For some:

• Seeing a Jew, be he young or old, means:  (1) An enemy, in view of the Quranic verse that reads: “Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe 
(to be) the Jews, and the idolaters. …”  (“Al-Maidah” [The Table Spread], verse 82.) 
(2) The dreamer will inherit his uncle or aunt  (on the father’s side). 
(3) The dreamer will become wise and follow the right path.

(Animal driver; Grooming; Tending; Stableman) An animal driver in a dream represents a leader, a president of a group or corporations or a wealthy person. In general, seeing a groomer, an attendant, a driver or a stableman in a dream denotes a bad dream and implies impetuousness, a pimp, a procurer, a pander, an officiant, an adulterer, or one who drives a chained male animal to copulate with a female animal. (Also see Copulation)

• A woman praying in the prayer niche: Will give birth to a male child.

• Praying in the prayer niche but not at the right time: Welfare for the dreamer’s progeny or successors.

• Urinating in the prayer niche: Will have a son who will become a Muslim spiritual leader, as the mihrab basically represents the imam.

• Urinating or pissing one, two, or three drops in the prayer niche: Will have as many virtuous and handsome children as there were drops.

The ear symbolizes the man’s wife or daughter. It also represents religion.

• Having three ears: The dreamer has a wife and two daughters.

• Having four ears:  (1) The dreamer has four women.  (2) He has four girls without a mother.

• Having one ear: No relative will stay alive.

• Having half an ear: Wife will die and the dreamer will remarry.

• One ear having fallen:  (1) Will divorce.  (2) A daughter will die.

• Wearing an earring: Will marry one’s daughter to someone, and she will give birth to a male child.

• Filling or obstructing one’s ears with something: The dreamer is an atheist.

Teeth in a dream represent the elderly members in one's family, or their most distinctive ones. If a molar tooth falls in a dream, it means loss of money or life. Molar teeth in a dream represent one's relatives, or his friendliest relatives, or his own young children.

Buying a cradle or sitting in a cradle in a dream means blessings, grace, profits and comfort. A cradle in a dream also represents a stepson or the stepchild of a young woman. For men, a cradle in a dream signifies sorrow, distress, imprisonment or a small and restrictive dwellings. As for an unmarried man, seeing a cradle in a dream means that he will get married.

• A man wearing two silver bracelets:  (1) Benefits obtained the hard way. 
(2) Hardships of one’s own making and deep regret, especially if the metal is twisted.

• Seeing a silver bracelet: The dreamer will get a male servant or have a child.

• A silver armlet or bangle: Worries and hatred, but less than if it were gold.

• An armlet on a man’s upper arm: His daughter or his brother’s daughter will get married. 
(The upper arm and the forearm represent the brother.)

• A silver pendent: A pretty girl, servant, or slave.

• Embracing a person the dreamer knows: Will mix with that person.

• Embracing a person and placing one’s head on his knees: Will keep one’s capital in the custody of that person.

• Embracing one’s enemy: Will be reconciled with him and hostilities will cease.

• Embracing or hugging a woman: The dreamer is sticking to life and has no hope in the Hereafter.

• Embracing a man: A show of solidarity and mutual help.

• Embracing a young man: The dreamer is a persistent hypocrite.

The myrtle symbolizes a man who keeps his promises and honours his commitments, anything that is durable, or a powerful man 
(for etymological reasons).

• Seeing a crown of myrtles on one’s head or smelling some: A lasting marriage or a lasting relationship.

• Seeing myrtles in one’s house: Lasting welfare and money.

• Taking myrtle from a young man: The dreamer will wrench a genuine pledge from an enemy.

• Planting myrtles: The dreamer is managing and planning well.

• Seeing oneself in one of the castles of Paradise: The dreamer will become a chief or marry a beautiful maid.

• Having sex with the heavenly women while the children or young men of Paradise are roaming around: The dreamer will have a realm of his own and plenty of welfare.

• Seeing Radwan, the Custodian of Paradise: The dreamer will be happy as long as he lives.

• Angels coming to the dreamer and greeting him in Paradise:  (1) The dreamer will be patient in a matter that will earn him Paradise. 
(2) Happy ending.

• Manipulating or seizing the stars and putting them on one’s knees: The dreamer will become a leader, a judge, or a king, if eligible. Otherwise, he will become an astronomer.

• Stars falling on the head of a sick person:  (1) He will die. 
(2) He will be assailed by creditors.

• A star falling on a pregnant woman: She will give birth to a male or female child, depending on whether the star in question had a masculine or feminine name. It could also mean that the lady will die if there are other signs to this effect in the dream.

• Seeing stars in daylight: Scandals and notoriety, major events, catastrophes, ‘failure to find suitors for one’s daughters, et cetera.

• Seeing the back of a middle-aged woman: The dreamer is running after a matter full of difficulties and which will not culminate in success.

• Seeing the back of a young woman: What is desired will be obtained a bit late.

• Backache:  (1) Death of a brother.  (2) Difficulties facing whomever the dreamer considers his life support, such as a father, a son, a chief, or a friend.

• Having so much pain in the back that the dreamer is compelled to bend: Poverty and senility.

Giving birth to a boy in a dream also could mean having a helper. A beautiful looking young boy in a dream also signifies good luck and victory over one's enemy. Seeing a beautiful looking boy in a dream means that beautiful and pleasant things will take place in one's life, or it could mean satisfying one's needs. If one is called a teenager in a dream, it signifies the necessity to take a ritual ablution, or that something good or bad may take place in wakefulness.

• Removing one’s white hair, one by one: The dreamer is doing things contrary to the Tradition of the Holy Prophet and has no respect for the elderly.

• A young man seeing some white hairs on his head: An absent one will come back.

• Seeing one’s hair having turned white: Will have a child.

• A woman dreaming that all her hair has turned white:  (1) Her husband is corrupt. 
(2) Her husband will make her jealous by having an affair with another lady or a maid. 
(3) She will bring trouble and sorrow to her man.

• Shaking hands with an unidentified sheikh or old man: The dreamer will be secure from God’s torture.

• A young man shaking hands with the dreamer: The dreamer will be immune from the enemies  harm.

• A man whom the dreamer approaches to betroth his daughter shaking hands enthusiastically with the dreamer: The man will consent. The reverse is also true.

• A business relation returning the dreamer’s greetings and giving a firm handshake: Business will flourish.

• The part between the lower lip and the chin represents the man’s asset (s), which he prides himself on.

• Seeing one’s beard half-shaven: Will become poor and unimportant.

• The beard being shaved by an unknown young man: The dreamer’s prestige will be shaken or completely destroyed by an enemy whom he knows, his homonym, or his counterpart.

• The beard being shaved by an old man: Prestige will disappear to a certain extent.

• The beard being shaved by an unknown old man: Prestige will be shattered by a haughty and crushing chief, a bastard.