Seeing “ordering cake”
in your dream

If a poor person sees himself eating modified bread or a cake in a dream, it means sickness or loss of something one is anticipating to receive. (Also see Bread)

Imprisonment symbolizes humiliation and deep worries.

• A well-known ruler or governor ordering that the dreamer be sequestered, remanded in custody, or thrown in jail: Deep worries or captivity.

• Being put in jail: Will go to a great king and become more pious  (as was the case with the Prophet Yusuf [Joseph]).

Eating from a loaf of bread which is half baked in a dream means that one may suffer from high fever. If a poor person eats sweetbread or a cake in a dream, it means sickness or loss of what he maybe expecting to receive. Eating the thin variety of rock baked bread in a dream means increase in one's earnings. A thin loaf of bread in a dream also could mean a short life. Holding two loaves of bread in a dream means marrying two sisters, one after the other.

• A man whose wife is pregnant hitting an egg once: He is ordering his wife to abort.

• Seeing someone else breaking an egg and throwing it back to the dreamer: That man will deflower the dreamer’s daughter.

• Digging an egg out of one’s sleeve: The dreamer will penetrate his nanny or slave and have a girl from her.

• Having plenty of raw eggs: The dreamer’s great wealth is in jeopardy.

• Seeing boiled eggs: The revival of a stalled or dead matter, which will yield quite a lot of money.

• Groping for eggs: Will squander or eat up the money of a woman.

• Buying or being offered a coffin or finding one at home: Will become a king or rule in some way or the other and gain wisdom, prestige, and reassurance, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that reads: “And their Prophet said unto them: Lo! the token of his kingdom is that there shall come unto you the ark wherein is quietude from your Lord, and a remnant of that which the house of Moses and the house of Aaron left behind, the angels bearing it. Lo! herein shall be a token for you if 
(in truth) ye are believers.”  (“Al-Baqarah” [The Cow], verse 248.)

• Manufacturing or ordering the building of a coffin: You are a benefactor and God will reward you.

• A coffin being broken: Bad omen.

• Having nails so long that they may break: The dreamer is abusing his power to such an extent as to ruin everything.

• Treating something with one’s nails: Swindling.

• Filing or smoothing one’s nails: The dreamer is paying the zakat  (Muslim religious dues) on Eid-ul-Fitr 
(the Bairam feast).

• An old man ordering the dreamer to polish his nails: For his endeavours to succeed the dreamer should take care of his appearance and preserve his prestige.

• Any ailment in the nails: Waning power and decaying piety and livelihood.

• Having no nails: The dreamer is bankrupt.

• All nails being broken or turning green without any dye: Death is near.