Seeing “broken irons”
in your dream

(See Bond; Fetter)

Iron symbolizes money, dignity, power, and triumph. However,

• Eating iron with bread means harm and possible end of the dreamer’s livelihood.

• Chewing iron means absence.

In a dream, iron represents longevity. If one sees himself holding a piece of iron in his dream, it means wealth and strength after poverty and weakness. If one sees himself eating a piece of iron in a dream, it means victory in his life. If he eats it with bread in the dream, it means bearing difficulties in his livelihood. Discovering iron as a mineral in a dream means prosperity and strength in one's livelihood. Forging iron in a dream means becoming competent and qualified in one's craft. To own iron in a dream means wealth which is accumulated with great pain. (Also see Bond; Fetter)

(See Poker)

it is an omen that either he or his son or his brother will lose respectability and honour.

If a person sees his arms, calves of the legs, clothes etc. Becoming iron it means he will attain along life.

Wealth that a person will receive from the king.

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

A broken or fallen minaret suggests the people of that locality will become corrupt in matters of religions by dividing into numerous sects.

He will receive the fortunes of this world if they are in their original form or molten.

If a person dreams that a sword is given to him in a broken sheath then the mother will die but his son will be saved.

If one side of the gate leading to the garden is seen as broken, it means the observer will divorce his wife.

If a person sees his waist-band as broken, snatched or altered in any way, it means harm coming his way.

The father, paternal uncle or their equivalent will die.

A perbond mother, paternal grandmother, maternal aunt or some lady equal in status to any of these will die.

If a persons dreams that a sword is given to him in its sheath and it breaks in the sheath it means his son will die while it is in its mother's womb.

The lodestone alludes to whatever is of mean origin but has some hidden benefits, virtues, or value in it. Too many lodestones means cheap or dirty money.

It is related that a man came to Jafar As-saadiq (RA) and said: “ I dreamt that Allah gave me a piece of iron and a sip of vinegar. What is the Interpretation of this dream?” The Imaam replied: “Iron depicts hardships, for Allah says in Quran : And we have sent iron wherein is material for mighty war. But it is possible that your children may learn this tradeoff Dawood (AS) (for he was a blacksmith by trade). As for vinegar, it means you will be afflicted with a disease from sometime, at the same time acquiring abundant wealth. Thereafter, if Allah gives you death, we will be pleased with you and forgive all your sins, past and future.

(Bond; Shackle) To see one's feet put in irons or fettered in a dream represents evil people, or it could mean travels or leaving one's homeland. (Also see Bond)

Repairing a broken jar or a utensil in a dream means correcting oneself, giving medicine to a sick person, or setting a broken bone.