Seeing “ascending above troubled water”
in your dream

To take a ritual ablution in a dream before the Friday congregational prayers means purifying oneself, washing oneself from sin, repenting from sin, serving one's parents, or being true to one's friends. Taking a ritual ablution for any of the above reason during the wintertime and using cold water in the dream means distress, trouble or a sickness. If hot water is used, then it means profits, benefits and recovering from sickness. Taking a ritual ablution in a dream before attending a festival means getting married. Taking a ritual ablution after seeing either a solar or a lunar eclipses in a dream means an adversity, and the same applies if one takes a ritual ablution in a dream before the prayers of asking for rain.

(Bread; Clouds; Concealment; Rain; Soldiers; Vapor; Water)

(Channel; Water passage; Watercourse) In a dream, a canal represents a woman, money or a scholar. Running a watercourse or a channel in a dream means getting married, building a business, or it could mean finding a job and serving one's family and community. Seeing a canal in a dream also means sufferings caused by a member of one's family. Water channels in a dream represent servants or housekeepers. A canal in a dream also could signify a lavatory, sewage, a marketplace, or it could mean a shop. Thus, digging a canal in a dream also could mean prosperity and spending money to support one's family and dependents. Blocking a canal in a dream means divorce, separation between husband and wife, cutting off one's blood ties, leaving one's homeland, or separation from one's clan.

If the bucket used for drawing water is seen as broken it means the help he used to render to the people will cease.

(Kettle; Roasting) In a dream, a boiler represents the seat of honor. (Also see Hot water)

Dreaming of drinking from the Nile river means the dreamer will have as much gold as he had water.

(Excavate) Digging the earth in a dream means profits equal to the measure of earth one piles-up if the dirt is dry. However, if the ground is wet in the dream, it means deceiving someone else in a business venture, whereby, he gains nothing from it but headache and exhaustion equal to the amount of earth he piles-up. The digger's plot also may backfire. If a sick person or if someone in his household who is sick sees himself digging the earth in a dream, it could mean digging a grave. If a business traveller sees himself digging the earth, it represents his travels and the dirt he gathers represent his profits. Digging a hole, a water well or irrigations and planning to water the plants through them in a dream means looking for a job to earn one's livelihood and to bring its benefits to his family.

If a person sees himself irrigating his land or sprinkling water on his crops it suggest that he will spend his wealth in Allah's way.

(Leaking) Seeping water from a crack in a wall in a dream means adversities and distress caused by a brother or an in-law.

Floods symbolize an attack by the enemy. Rain water flowing in gutters and sewers means prosperity and verdure.

Drawing water from the well and irrigating the roots of a tree means the person will utilize his wealth in bring up orphans and educating them.

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.

Mixing a solution of ammonia in water in a dream means hoarding tainted money and spending it in evil and unlawful ways.

A good rain in a dream also means prosperity, happiness, refilling wells with rainwater, the gushing forth of springs with sweet, fresh and pure waters. Rain in a dream also means reviving an old and a stagnant matter, or it could mean benefits, profits, blessings, relief from distress, payment of debts, or feeling relief. In a dream, a good rain means blessings, a good harvest and profits for a farmer. If the skies rain honey, butter, oil, or food people like in the dream, it means blessings for everyone. Rain in a dream also represent mercy from Allah Almighty, a helping hand, knowledge, wisdom, the Quran, rejuvenation, revival, resurrection and life. If one sees himself standing under a cover, a roof, or behind a wall to take shelter from a rainfall in a dream, it means that he may suffer because of someone slandering him.

Climbing a mountain, enjoying its vegetations and drinking from its fresh and sweet water in a dream means sheltering one's chastity in the company of one's wife. (Also see Khimar; Veil)

(Water sprinkler) In a dream, a sprinkler means rejuvenation, renewal of life, revival of old practices, or extinguishing a fire.

All this is in the light of this Quranic verse wherein He commands Ayyoob (AS) : Strike with you foot. This spring of water is for bathing, cooling and drinking. And We granted him his family and doubled their number as a special grace from ourselves and a commemoration for all who have understanding.

The nipple of the female breast in a dream represents one's personal wardrobe, or it could mean marriage. If water or milk comes out of it in a dream, it means finding a compatible husband. Otherwise, it may mean loss of a child or a sister.

Enacting ablution rites or performing the acts of ritual ablution without water (arb. Tayammum) in a dream means nearing the solution of one's problems. (Also see Tayammum)

(See Lily of the valley; Water lily)