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Pearls and other jewels symbolize beauty, perfection, and sexual passion for women and boys. Raw, ill-shaped, or scattered pearls are a reference to children and to good words; hidden pearls refer to exceptionally beautiful girls, slaves, or servants in view of verses from the Holy Quran about Paradise: “And 
(there are) those with wide, lovely eyes, like unto hidden pearls … Lo! We have created them a 
(new) creation and made them virgins, lovers, friends …”  (“Al-Waqiah” [The Event], verses 22–23, 36–37.)
The pearl also alludes to a male child who won’t live.
Perfectly shaped or aligned pearls represent the Holy Quran and good learning.
Likewise, big pearls are preferable to small ones, as they represent, for example, the longer chapters of the Holy Book or financial prosperity.

• Walking on one’s hands: The dreamer relies on his relatives in certain matters.

• Seeing with one’s hands as if they were eyes: You are frolicking or molesting prohibited relatives too often.

• f The dreamer’s right hand telling him some good words: The quality of life will improve.

• The dreamer’s left hand telling him something good: Relatives will show their gratitude.

• One or both hands blaming the dreamer: Wrongdoings on the dreamer’s part.

• The right hand made of gold  (the word for gold in Arabic is thahab, meaning “gone”): The dreamer’s partner or wife will die.

Sometimes, the ears of corn allude to years, months, or days. Joseph regarded them as years. Likewise, they refer to the wealth of this world.

• Planting corn: Will do something that will please God.

• Endeavouring to or helping plant corn: A reference to Jihad  (struggle in the way of Allah).

• Planting corn that gives barley: The dreamer’s appearance is better than his hidden self. And vice versa.

• Planting corn that gives blood: The subject is making a living from usury.

• Ears of corn gathered in a person’s hand or in a container: Will obtain money earned by somebody else or acquire learning.

• Picking scattered spikes from the harvest of someone whom the dreamer knows: Will obtain scattered sums of money from that person. A harvest in the wrong season would mean that death will occur or war will erupt on that spot.

• Falling from the sky: The dreamer will become an atheist. The sky opening to give way to an old man: A reference to the perseverance of the local people who will reap the fruit of their activities.

• The sky opening and a young man coming out of it: An enemy who will harm the people of the area or sow the seeds of dissension.

• Sheep coming from the sky: A booty  (for etymological reasons, the two words in Arabic being ghanam and ghanima, respectively).

• A lion emerging from the sky: The people will be plagued with a wicked tyrant.

• Stealing the sky and hiding it in ajar: The dreamer will steal a mus haf, or Holy Quran book, and give it to his wife.

• Circling in the sky, then coming down: The dreamer will learn astronomy and occult sciences and make a name for himself.

The Arabic word for slave girl is jariyah: The running one or the running thing or matter, from jary, running. It follows that her sight in the dream is a good augury inasmuch as she appears pretty, well dressed, and perfumed, heralding something good coming. But it could also mean a transient intrigue or plight.

• Owning, buying, or being offered or sleeping with a slave girl or seeing one coming to the dreamer: 
(1) The return of or some news or a letter from an absent person.  (2) Better winds 
(for a sailor).  (3) Business success.  (4) Smooth livelihood 
(for someone experiencing some hardships).

• Buying a white slave girl: Trade benefits and welfare.

• Wearing a green ruby ring: Wife will give birth to a bright, pious, and knowledgeable boy.

• Receiving a ruby: The dreamer will marry a pretty lady.

• A bachelor wishing to get married dreaming of taking or receiving a ruby: He will marry a beautiful and pious woman in view of the Quranic verses: “In them will be 
(maidens), chaste, restraining their glances, whom no man or jinn before them has touched; then which of them
favours of your Lord will ye deny?—Like unto rubies and coral.”  (“Al-Rahman” [God, the Most Gracious], verses 56–58.)

• Getting from the sea or riverbed heaps of rubies: Plenty of rubies: 
(1) A reference to money.  (2) An additional province for the ruler. 
(3) More learning for the scholar.  (4) Business for the trader.

• Wearing a garland of ruby and coral: The dreamer will derive dignity and power from a beautiful lady.

Dates placed to dry in the open represent money which does not last. To harvest dates in a dream in season means that one may get married to a noble and a wealthy woman. It also means acquiring knowledge. Harvesting dates out of season in a dream means that one will learn something good but fail to act upon it. If one see that he is fanning himself with a tender and a wet branch of a palm tree in a dream it means learning something beneficial from a hypocrite, or it may mean relief from distress. If a woman sees herself eating ripened dates that are dripping with juices in the dream, it means that she will receive an inheritance from her husband and that her name will be included in his will, even if she is divorced. If one sees himself taking a date, splitting it in half and extracting the date pit from it in a dream, it means that he will beget a son. Eating fresh dates in a dream means hearing good words beside other benefits. (Also see Bunch of dates; Date spread)

• Dreaming that one’s wife has no vagina: A matter will be stalled, and the dreamer will be helpless and humiliated.

• The vagina being cut: Bad omen, meaning perhaps that enemies will prevail.

• Biting the vagina of an unknown woman: Relief and joy.

• The vagina of an unidentified old woman: Relief in life.
Holding firm a woman’s vagina with one’s hand, which turns into a penis: Her morals will change. If it remains a penis, she will remain authoritarian, impudent, loud, and impossible to tame.

• Vaginal or pubic hair:  (1) Period is on the way.  (2) Poetic diatribe, a speciality of ancient Arab poets. It is noteworthy that in Arabic the words for hair and poem resemble each other. The former is shaar and the latter sheer.

• Seeing Jews means:  (1) Mercy from God, because the Arabic word for Jew is 
(singular, Ya-hudi, and plural, Yahud) is a homonym of “to repent,” “to turn unto Allah.” It also resembles hoda, which means “showing the right way.” Reference is made here to a verse in the Holy Quran: “And ordain for us in this world that which is good, and in the Hereafter 
(that which is good), Lo! We have turned unto Thee. He said: I smite with My punishment whom I will, and My mercy embraceth all things…” 
(“Al-Aaraf” [The Heights], verse 156.)  (2) A complicated matter will become clear. 
(3) Evidence will appear.  (4) The dreamer will abide more closely by the Prophet’s Tradition and Islamic Laws.

• Seeing a group of Jews means the dreamer will repent.

• Seeing one Jew means the dreamer will return to the right path.

• If the earring is coupled with a sword: The dreamer will have a girl child. If the dreamer is a pregnant woman, she will give birth to a boy.

• A man wearing a twisted silver ring: Good deed. Unlike the case of a golden ring.

• Wearing a silver ring: Great joy and comfortable living.

• A silver girdle, belt, or sash: Justice will prevail in the area, as mintaqa in Arabic is used both for belt and district.

• Wearing anklets made of silver, especially a colored one: The dreamer will renew a deal with one’s brothers to regret it later on or perhaps will use a whip.

• Wearing or bearing any silver ornament with something carved on it: Welfare. If it is just plated, the benefit will be less; if it is plain, the reverse should apply.

Erecting a foundation for a building, then completing its structure in a dream means seeking knowledge, wisdom or leadership. Building a house in a different county, town or locality in a dream means a marriage with a woman from that neighbourhood. Building an edifice from ceramic in a dream means decorating oneself. If the building is from clay in the dream, it means lawful earnings. If one engraves pictures or forms thereon in the dream, it means acquiring knowledge, learning a new craft, a leading position in the government which involves partying, alcohol and mingling with what is unlawful. Building an edifice from plaster or backed bricks encrusted with pictures or forms in a dream means engaging in an unlawful or a deceitful act. Building a house in a dream and strengthening its walls, means to complete the father's traditions, and to continue working in his trade. (Also see Builder)

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

If one's wife is pregnant, it means that she will give birth to a son who will grow to be a wise person, a man of knowledge, or a judge. This interpretation is possible in most cases except if the necklace breaks in the dream. In this case, if the necklace is broken, it means that one will break his promise, or forget his learning, become heedless, suffer eviction, deportation, or be exiled from his home or country. If one sees himself wearing one or even two pearl necklaces in a dream, it means that he subscribes to Allah's revelations, memorizes Allah's Words, recites the holy Quran, speaks words of wisdom, and that he is one of the carriers of the divine trust who demonstrates trustworthiness, piety, trueness, religious commitment and beauty of character. All depending on the beauty, radiance and clarity of one's necklace. If one sees himself in a dream carrying many necklaces and decorations, and if he finds them heavy and unbearable to carry, it represents his incompetence, or his inability to complete a job. (Also see Necklace)

Satan symbolizes Man’s enemy in Heaven and on earth, a cunning, deceitful, alert, and malicious enemy who cares for nothing and respects nothing and no one. He could also represent a prince, a state minister, a judge, a policeman, a scholar, a preacher, an atheist, a hypocrite, a covetous person, the dreamer’s family or children, people with very fine hearing, spies, builders, and divers.

• Seeing Satan: Joy and excessive sexual passion, as the word shaytan, Satan in Arabic, comes from shatat, meaning “excess.” This being the case, he could be identified, in Western terms, with Asmodeus.

• Satan manhandling the dreamer: The dreamer is a usurer.

• A healthy person dreaming that Satan has touched him: An enemy is slandering the dreamer’s wife while trying to entice her.

If one sees himself in a dream counting large denomination of money that has the Name of Allah Almighty written on it, it means acquiring knowledge. If the money coins or the banknotes are designed with images or portray the picture of known people in the dream, then they mean engaging in innovation, religious innovation, falsehood or polytheism. Counting pearls in a dream means reading the Quran. Counting gems in a dream means learning wisdom or acquiring knowledge at the hand of a gnostic. Counting beads in a dream means getting involved in people's business, using obscene language, or fornication. Counting sheep in a dream means counting money or counting one's children. Counting cows in a dream means longevity or going through a long and difficult times. If a farmer sees himself counting camels in a dream, it means rain and a good harvest. Counting buffaloes in a dream means hardships and toiling in one's life. (Also see Money)

(Mecca; Mount Arafa; Mount of mercy; Plain of Arafat; Reunion of beloveds) If one sees himself standing in prayers in the Plain of Arafat during the pilgrimage season on the 9th day of the Arabic month of Zul-Hijjah, it means the return of a long awaited traveller to his home, a happy reunion, a family reunion, reconciliation between friends or peace between two individuals. Seeing Mount Arafa or the Plain of Arafat in a dream also could represent the pilgrimage season, or performing a pilgrimage, visiting Mecca on Umrah (See Umrah), or it could mean the Friday congregational prayers, the sixth day of the week, a marketplace, or engaging in a profitable business.

In general, the sight of a jinn in the dream symbolizes a great, wicked, and
deceitful enemy. The kings of jinn  (singular and plural in Arabic) or jan or jinnah or jannan 
(plural) allude to:  (1) Prominent leaders.  (2) Rulers.  (3) Sheikhs or tribal chieftains. 
(4) Ulema, or Muslim scholars.  (5) Sponsors and guarantors.
Ordinary jinn refer to the following:  (1) Crooks and those who seek worldly pleasures and vain things, unless the one seen in the dream was of the good and wise and learned type who can speak, comprehend, and do good things. 
(2) A blaze.  (3) Whatever is made by using fire, like pottery and glass. 
(4) Snakes, scorpions, and all that harm man.  (5) Losses.  (6) Ordeals. 
(7) Terror.  (8) Enemies.  (9) Loss of religious faith.  (10) Passions and whims. 
(11) Immoral gains.

(Azan; Muezzin) Hearing the call to prayers in a dream denotes the pilgrimage season or announces its holy months. It also may indicate backbiting, a theft, announcing a major move or blowing the trumpets of war, or it could denote rank and honor or obeyed commands of the one seeing the dream, or perhaps announcing a wife for an unmarried man, and it could mean telling the truth. Hearing the call to prayers in a language other than the Arabic in which it was revealed in a dream means lies and backbiting. If one sees a woman calling to prayers, standing on the top of a minaret in a dream, it means innovation and trials. If children give the call to prayers in a dream, it means that people filled with ignorance will rule the land. This is particularly true when the call is made outside the proper time.

The bracelet and the anklet symbolize the husband or marriage, in particular. For men they represent sorrow. Lady’s jewels could also refer to their children, since mothers are proud of them. Gold is a reference to boys and silver to girls. Likewise, whatever is masculine refers to boys and anything feminine to girls.
Certain interpreters hate to hear about silver in view of the etymology of the word—in Arabic feddah from fadd or yafeddo, meaning “to disperse” or “to deflower.”
In general, silver is hoarded money. An alloy of silver and gold is a beautiful white girl or slave girl 
(or servant in the modern sense), because silver is part of the essence of women 
(according to the ancient Arabs). Whoever dreams of having acquired such an alloy will seduce a pretty woman. If the piece is big, he will find a
treasure.