Seeing “picking walnuts”
in your dream

It means quareeling. Otherwise it means livelihood obtained after much exertion.

A woman said to Imam Ibn Sirin: "I saw my daughter in a dream after she had died. I asked her: 'Tell me what is the best of deeds?' She replied: 'The walnuts, the walnuts, you must take it out, and distribute it among the poor and the needy, Oh my mother.' " Imam Ibn Sirin replied: "If you have hidden a treasure in your house, then dig it out, and give poor people their share ." The woman said: 'You spoke the truth. I hid that money in the past, during a plague."

A walnut tree in a dream represents a stingy foreigner, a backbiter, a slanderer, a difficult person who cares only for his selfish interests. A walnut in a dream also represents a healthy body, or it could mean extensive travelling. Playing with walnut in a dream means playing with unlawful earnings. If a woman sees a walnut tree in her dream, it means longevity. A walnut in a dream also means a husband. Crushed walnuts in a dream mean easy money. Eating pecans from a hickory tree in a dream means speaking the truth.

The walnut tree symbolizes a blind man, a miser who is not gay but rather difficult to deal with. Its fruit is money that cannot be obtained except by great difficulty or by some trick.

• A gambler obtaining or playing with walnuts: Will win, but earnings will, Indeed, not be blessed, as gambling is prohibited in Islam.

• Sitting on a walnut tree: The dreamer is relying on a blind but huge man.

• Stepping down from it: A deal with such a man will not be concluded.

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• Falling from a walnut tree and dying: Will be killed by a giant of a man or a king.

• The walnut tree breaking while the dreamer is climbing on it: Will control a huge man.

• Dreaming of another person falling from a walnut tree after it had fallen down: The dreamer will control such a person if he gets killed in the dream. If the hands or legs are broken in the process, a great calamity is imminent, but the dreamer will come out unscathed.

(See Tree)

If a person sees himself walking on sand or picking up sand, it means he will have to toil very hard in order to become wealthy.

• Picking roses: Joy.

• Picking white flowers from one’s garden: Will kiss a virtuous woman with mutual passion.

• Dreaming of red flowers: The dreamer’s woman is of the gay type who likes artists, singing, dancing, et cetera, as opposed to a pious woman.

• Dreaming of yellow flowers: The dreamer’s wife has frail health.

• Picking flower buds: The dreamer’s wife will have a miscarriage, and the fetus will be a male child.

• Picking a well-known flower with big leaves: The dreamer is sweet on a beautiful woman whom everybody is running after and calumniating at the same time.

(Foundling; Waif) Picking-up an abandoned infant in a dream means picking-up one's enemy, in conjunction to the story of Moses and Pharaoh. Picking up an abandoned child in a dream also could mean returning things to the way they should be, or dispelling distress and sorrow. If one sees himself planting an apple tree in a dream, it means adopting an orphan, or caring for one. To find oneself as an orphan in a dream means depression which is caused by injustice. To be an orphan in a dream also means feeling depressed because of one's love for a woman, loss of property or money.

A specific tree like the date tree or a walnut tree. The date tree may be interpreted as an honorable Arab gentleman since date trees are mainly indigenous to arab countries. As for the walnut tree, it represents a non-Arab person since these trees do not grow in the land of the Arabs. The same applies to birds. If a bird is huge it symbolizes an Arab gentleman; a peacock represents a non-Arab gentleman.

(See Walnut)

(See Tree; Walnut)

Any chessman other than a pawn symbolises disturbance, tumult and argument. The same is the interpretation if a person uses walnuts or almonds instead of chessman in a chess game.

• Picking a pomegranate with red seeds: The dreamer will obtain one thousand gold coins 
(big money).

• Picking a pomegranate with white seeds: The dreamer will obtain one thousand silver coins 
(small money).

• Selling a pomegranate: The dreamer has given up the Hereafter in favour of worldly temptations and transient delights.

• Eating pomegranate peel: The dreamer will recover from a disease.

• Pressing pomegranates and drinking their juice: An allusion to what the dreamer spends on himself.

• Picking, gathering, owning, or eating apples: Success in the dreamer’s field. Sweet apples mean honest gains. Sour ones represent sinful earnings.

• Eating an apple: Eating up money in a way as to become the talk of the town.

• Picking an apple: Will obtain money and praise from an honest man.

• Smelling an apple in a mosque: Will get married.

• A woman smelling an apple in a party or at an orgy: Will become the center of a scandal.

• A woman eating an apple in a place she knows: Will give birth to a good boy.

(Defecate; Excrete; Human excrements) Feces in a dream represent money. Excreting solid intestinal waste in a dream means that one will spend large amounts of money in caring for his health. Having diarrhea and defecating in public in a dream means that one should be careful about exposing himself or becoming subject to a scandal or saying dirty words. Excreting involuntarily, then cleaning after oneself and carrying one's pickings in a dream means earnings and money. Feces in a dream also mean honey. Defecating in one's bed in a dream means divorcing one's wife. Walking on Feces in a dream means distress or depression. Walking away from the bathroom after cleansing one's bowels in a dream means walking away from adversities.

(Husk; Peel; Rind; Shuck; Skin) Almond, walnuts or the like nutshell in a dream signify clothing or sustenance. If a pregnant woman sees nutshells in her dream, they mean a miscarriage. A shell or a husk in a dream represents hypocrisy, affectation, ostentatiousness and a swelled head. (Also see Skin)

The coconut  (in Arabia, Indian walnut) symbolizes:  (1) Money from a foreign source. 
(2) An astrologer.

• Eating coconuts: Will learn astrology or adopt the views of an astrologer and believe him.

• Dreaming of an astrologer or a diviner: Will eat coconuts.

The violet is a pious maiden or slave girl. Picking it means that the dreamer will kiss such a girl.

• Dreaming of black grapes: Flogging or lashes as much as there were seeds in the grapes.

• Picking a bunch of black grapes from a tree: Wife will give birth to a boy fathered by a black bondsman.

• Picking a bunch of grapes: The dreamer will take his wife’s savings.

• Pressing grape to obtain juice and turning the latter into wine: The dreamer will win the
favours of the chief, along with unblessed money, in view of the story of the Prophet Yusuf as related in the Holy Quran: “And two young men went to prison with him. One of them said: I dreamed that I was pressing wine. The other said: I dreamed that I was carrying upon my head bread whereof the birds were eating. Announce unto us the interpretation, for we see thee of those good [at interpretation]. He said: The food which ye are given [daily] shall not come unto you but I shall tell you the interpretation ere it cometh unto you. This is of that which my Lord hath taught me … O my fellow-prisoners! As for one of you, he will pour out wine for his lord to drink; and as for the other, he will be crucified so that the birds will eat from his head. Thus is the case judged concerning which ye did inquire.” 
(“Yusuf [Joseph], verses 36–41.)