Seeing “dead father painting house”
in your dream

The prophet Yusuf  (Joseph) talking to the dreamer or giving him something: Will become an expert in the interpretation of dreams, as well as history and its chronology.

• Seeing Yusuf: (1) The science of dream interpretation. (2) Kingship and succession.
(3) The loss of one’s family, children, and other relatives. (4) A machination against the dreamer.
(5) Drought and high prices, as was the case in his time.63 (6) Prison and release from prison.
(7) Luck with women, as Yusuf is said to have been of an unequalled beauty. (8) Victory over the enemy, followed by a pardon.
(9) An allusion to seas, rivers, and drainage facilities.  (10) The transportation of the remains of dead persons from one country to another. 
(11) An outstanding miracle such as the one that happened to Yusuf’s father when he recovered his eyesight and he received the shirt sent to him by his son. 
(12) Will be the least lucky among his brothers, who will be so wicked as to let him go to jail, but he will then be saved by God, his brothers, will submit to his authority, and he will forgive them along with other enemies.

• A sick or troubled person going down the staircase:  (1) If he lands in a place he knows such as his house or on chopped straw or anything that alludes to the riches of this world: The dreamer will recover. 
(2) If he lands in an unknown place, in a well or a hole, or among dead people he knew or on a palanquin or a saddle of a
travelling animal, et cetera, or on a ship that immediately sets sail, or in front of a ferocious lion that devours him or a bird that carries him away: The dreamer will die and the steps represent the days left in his life.

Wearing the governor's ring in a dream means an appointment as a dignitary, or inheriting such a rank from one's father. If one's father does not hold such a position, then it means the opposite of one's wishes. Finding a lost ring in a dream means earning money from a foreign land, or having a new born son, or it could mean a marriage to a righteous woman. If the stone of one's ring seems unstable in the dream, it means that one will be fired form his job. Removing one's ring in a dream means that one maybe removed from his job.

• A man dreaming of someone dreaming of him that he is having sex with his mother, sister, brother, or similar prohibited relations, seen as dead in the dream: He is not sustaining them as he should, but will change his attitude and be fair to them. It could also mean trouble or worries or, on the contrary, benefit to both parties. If they are alive, it means the reverse and that he does not have much affection for them. In case, according to his dream, the act took place during the Muslims  sacred months, he would go to
Mecca (Makkah) for the pilgrimage.

• An identified dead person making love to a living one: The latter will get some benefit from a bequest of the heirs of the former, be it material or otherwise.

• Seeing plants being harvested in a country at war or in the executioner’s usual place: People will die by the sword, inasmuch as plants were harvested by the sickle.

• Plants being harvested in the Grand Mosque or in shops and houses in a country that is not at war: The sword of God will strike in the form of a plague or an epidemic.

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 hunting dogs entering a city: Unemployment.

• Seeing hunting dogs returning from an expedition:  (1) Unemployment. 
(2) The end of fear.

• A sheepdog:  (1) The dreamer will obtain certain benefits from the king or chief. 
(2) A good neighbour who is keen on preserving your interests as much as he does his own.

• Dogs of the type that guard houses: Man’s wife and property are being safeguarded. If those dogs look weak, it means sickness and losses.

The grave or grave pit symbolizes the prison, and vice versa.
Graves symbolize a leaning toward ignorance or the ignorant, religious corruption, a catastrophe, worries, and regret for having followed the ignorant, but ultimate repentance.
The gravedigger is a prestigious and awesome man.

• Wishing to visit the tombs: Will pay a visit to prisoners.

• Entering a grave and stepping on the bones of the dead: Will be expelled.

• Digging a grave or a pit for oneself or somebody else:  (1) Will build a house. 
(2) Will settle in that area.

• Digging a grave on a surface: Will live long.

• Flying from one rooftop to another: Will change wives.

• Hovering over houses and streets: Turbulence, but the dreamer will not be moved.

• Flying from one land to another: Dignity and great satisfaction.

• A prominent personality flying over a mountain: Will be given a province.

• A leader or a power-monger dreaming of flying: Will prevail. If he falls on anything, he will own it.

• An ordinary or a submissive person dreaming of flying over a mountain: 
(1) Will be very ill and approach death.  (2) Will commit a sin.

If one sees that his own house has become the Kabah and people are seeking it and crowds are gathering at his door in a dream, it means that he will be endowed with wisdom, gain knowledge and act upon it, and that people will learn at his hand and follow his example. Performing some of the required rites at the holy Kabah in a dream also means that one may work for someone in authority, or serve a man of knowledge, a sheikh, a renunciate, one's father, one's mother, or it could mean that one has a master who demands clarity, true following and hard-work from his students and disciples. (Also see Circumambulation; Entering Paradise; Gutter of Mercy)

• Seeing a church being destroyed, burning, or undergoing some other calamity: Stronger religious faith 
(for the Muslims) and defeat for the polytheists and the hypocrites.

• A church turning into a synagogue or vice versa: Some accident will befall the aliens 
(non-Muslims) living in an Islamic country.

• Seeing one’s house as a church:  (1) Will talk the language of the Christians and turn one’s home into a meeting place for the whimsical, the heretics, and those who commit all sorts of sins. 
(2) The dreamer’s chief will be angry with him.

• Seeing a dead person in a church: The deceased is in the Eternal Blaze, locked with those who had disobeyed the Lord.

If one sees his house bigger than it is in reality in a dream, it means expansion in one's material resources. If it grows beyond the normal norms in a dream, it means anxiety, or a delegation that hastens to enter that house without permission, announcing a calamity, or it could mean that a wedding will take place in that house. Building a house in a dream also means extending one's connections, strengthening one's relationship with his kin, friends, or if the person in question is a general in the army, or a leader, then it means building a strong army. Building a house in a dream also means regaining power, rejoicing or success in one's business, all of which are relative to the thickness of its walls.

• 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 an unfamiliar horse which he does not own nor mounts means that he is a man of good repute and high honour. If he sees such a horse entering his neighbourhood or house it means a powerful and honourable person will make his appearance in that neighbourhood or house. If he sees such a horse leaving such a neghbourhood or house it means a man with same qualities mentioned above will leave the neighbourhood or house either by way of going away for good or death.

• 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.

Slaughter means:  (1) Repudiation of one’s parents.  (2) Injustice.

• Seeing a slain person without knowing who killed him: The dreamer has come out with a heresy or made a false testimony.

• Slaughtering one’s father, mother, or son: The dreamer will either repudiate or attack one of them.

• Slaughtering a woman: The dreamer will have sex with her.

• Slaughtering a female animal: The dreamer will make love to a woman and deflower a virgin.

• Slaughtering a male animal by attacking it from behind: The dreamer will sodomize such an animal.

• Slaughtering one’s father, mother, or son: The dreamer will either repudiate or attack one of them.

• 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.

• Digging a well to find water in it: Will marry a wealthy woman and outsmart her because, according to Ibn
Siren, digging symbolizes wickedness, deceit, fraud, trickery, et cetera. If the well is empty, the woman in question will be a poor one.

• Water flowing out of a well: Sorrow and weeping will take place in the area. If the water infiltrates the houses around, the dreamer will have money that will prove to be a curse for him.

• Digging a well and irrigating one’s garden with its water: The dreamer is taking an aphrodisiac, which drives him to incest.

(Overseas cap; Persian toga; Roman toga; Shawl) In a dream, a cap means travels, a wife who is supporting her husband, or a husband who is supporting his wife. A shawl-like attire that is worn over the head and shoulders in a dream represents honor, valor, a new trade, travel, a brother or a father. Taking off a cap in a dream means losing one's authority or loss of his wealth. A torn cap in a dream means the death of one's brother or father. Wearing a cap in a dream also means repayment of one's debts. (Also see Coat; Overcoat)

• 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.