Seeing “caring young boy child”
in your dream

(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.

(Blow) A shock that leads to pain, suffering and crying in a dream means loss of a child or money. (Also see Tremor)

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.

In a dream, a shop represents one's wife, child, life, death, property, pride, servant, vehicle, or personal secrets.

An ascent in a dream also could represent adversities, difficulties and dangers. Ascending a steep incline in a dream means danger and descending a steep hill means reaching safety. An ascent in a dream also could represent a bridge, an underpass, a wife, a woman, or a scorpion. Walking through a steep incline in a dream also means rising in station because of one's knowledge, politics, good conduct, fulfillment of one's duties, his caring for others or wisdom. Falling through a steep hill in a dream means falling in rank, losing one's prestige, losing one's money, denying the truth, objecting to one's religion or walking into darkness. Climbing in a dream always means attainment of one's goals. Climbing flat on one's back in a dream has negative connotations. Descending from a steep hill, or from a ship, or coming down form a castle or a mountain in a dream also mean that one's goal will not materialize. (Also see Ascending the skies; Climbing a mountain)

Seeing Moses (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream also means love for travel, praiseworthy intercession, sea travels, a safe return, profits, suffering from slander and false accusations, or perhaps it could mean that one may have weakness in his speech, or tottering, or that he may suffer from a head ill or injury. If someone who has renounced worldly pleasures, an ascetic, or a pious person sees Moses (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream, it means increase in his wisdom, light in his heart and elevation of his station. If a woman sees Moses (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream, she must fear loss of her child, or her dream could represent an adversity that should have a happy ending. If a child sees Moses (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream, the same interpretation applies. If one sees himself carrying the staff of Moses (Alayhi-Salam) in a dream, it means that he will reach a high rank and win victory over his enemy. If he is suffering from an evil spell or a sorcery, it means that it will be nullified. (Also see Orphan)

• 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.

(Insomnia) In a dream, sleeplessness means loss of a beloved, the death of a child, separation between lovers, or leaving one's family and travelling to a foreign country.

Pocketing the teeth or wrapping them in cloth or seeing them falling into the hand or keeping them in the house-any of these is a harbinger of a child, brother or sister being born. If may also mean his deriving some benefit from one of them.

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.

• 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.

The gillyflower, or garden stock, whose Arabic name, manthoor, means “scattered” or “sprinkled,” symbolizes the death of a child; joy; a post or a trade that will not last; or a woman who will part from the dreamer.

• 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.

Lips in a dream also represent a door attendant, boys, guards, locks, knowledge, guidance, food, drinks, marriage, happiness, sadness, or keeping secrets. Having no lips in a dream means loosing any of the above, or one's dream could mean a broken door, or loosing one's keys, or perhaps it could mean the death of one's parents, husband or wife. Lips in a dream also represent the livelihood of singers or musicians who play wind instruments for a living, or the livelihood of a glass blower. If one's lips look thin and rosy in a dream, they denote clarity of speech, guidance, good food, good drink and happiness. Thick lips with black or blue color in a dream represent laziness, languor, failure to present a verifiable proof or to bring a strong witness, or they could mean discomfort, or difficulty in earning one's livelihood. If a sick person sees his lips black or blue in a dream, it could mean his death. Closed lips in a dream represent one's eyelids, a vagina, the anus, the banks of a river or a well. (Also see Body)

• 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.

If one sees himself grinding a sufficient quantity of wheat for two, three, or four people in a dream, it means that he labors for his own need and can barely provide for his family. If the miller is a young man who has gray hair in the dream, then he represents both prosperity and strength. Seeing a miller in a dream also means adversities, fights, a spendthrift, usury, or a hard working guardian. Grinding other grains in a dream means dispelling distress and bitterness from one's heart. (Also see Saffron)